Last month, Doja Cat released a new album, Scarlet. She recently stopped by BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, where she played two tracks from it — the chart-topper “Paint The Town Red” and “Agora Hills” — and did a cover, standard for these sorts of performances. Doja opted to do a song by the Australian […]
Aesop Rock – “Infinity Fill Goose Down”
Next month, the great indie rap eccentric Aesop Rock will release his new album Integrated Tech Solutions. The LP is almost entirely self-produced, and its got contributions from folks like billy woods, Hanni El Khatib, Rob Sonic, Nikki Jean, and Lealani Teano, though the advance singles have all been entirely solo. We’ve already posted the […]
DIIV Share New Song “Soul Net” On Mysterious Website
It’s been four years since DIIV’s most recent album Deceiver, and it looks like the band is gearing up for something new. Today, they shared the link to a mysterious website on their social media pages: soul-net.co. Click through and enter and you’ll find a long Geocities-looking page filled with memes and New Age platitudes […]
bar italia – “worlds greatest emoter”
Earlier this year, the idiosyncratic London indie rock trio bar italia made a name for themselves with their debut album Tracey Denim. They haven’t wasted any time in following that LP up. Next week, bar italia will release The Twits, their second full-length of 2023. We’ve already posted the early singles “my little tony” and […]
MF DOOM’s Widow Sues Former Stones Throw Manager For Stealing Rapper’s Notebooks
Three years ago, the great indie-rap enigma MF DOOM died at the age of 49. Earlier this week, DOOM’s widow Jasmine Dumile Thompson filed a lawsuit against Eothen “Egon” Alapatt, the former general manager and A&R rep of the indie label Stones Throw Records, for allegedly stealing 31 of DOOM’s notebooks, which include lyrics that […]
399-Pound Pumpkin (Taylor’s Version)
Watch Talking Heads Talk With Stephen Colbert On The Late Show
For the past month, Talking Heads have been back in action, at least in interview form. They first reunited for a conversation at the Toronto International Film Festival to coincide with the premiere of the restoration of Stop Making Sense for its 40th anniversary, and since then David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, and Tina […]
Stream King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Awesome New Album The Silver Cord A Day Early
There are not many cases where one band releases 25 albums, and there are even fewer cases where you could argue that a band’s 25th LP is its best. But that’s where we are with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard right now. The hyper-prolific Australian psych-rock stars were scheduled to release The Silver Cord, […]
The Beatles Announce Last Song “Now And Then,” Out Next Week
The last Beatles song is coming out next week. “Now And Then,” the unfinished John Lennon demo recorded in 1979 that has become mythic in Beatles fandom, will be released on Nov. 2 at 10AM ET. Paul McCartney teased the release of the song earlier this year, noting (and then clarifying) that artificial intelligence was […]
Watch Lady Gaga Join U2 For “Shallow” And Two Classics At Las Vegas Sphere
Right now, Lady Gaga is out here bonding with all our finest stadium rock legacy acts. That’s nothing new for Gaga, who’s practically a stadium rock legacy artist herself, but you’re really making a statement when you perform with the Rolling Stones and U2 in the same seven says. Last week, the Stones celebrated their […]