Pearl Jam, R.E.M. Sia, Lorde and more have joined forces with the Artists Rights Alliance to demand that the political parties “establish clear policies requiring campaigns to seek the consent of featured recording artists, songwriters, and copyright owners before publicly using their music in a political or campaign setting,” the Artist Rights Alliance announce in […]
Angel Olsen – “Whole New Mess”
When Angel Olsen released her staggering All Mirrors last year, it was billed as a symphonically blown-out version of a stripped-down album she’d recorded in Anacortes, Washington with producer Michael Harris. Now that album — Olsen’s first proper solo release since 2012 debut Half Way Home — is set to see release. It’s called Whole […]
Vein Change Their Name To Vein.FM, Share Remix Album 'Old Data In A New Machine Vol. 1'
A couple of years ago, the Massachusetts band Vein released a truly great debut album called Errorzone — a frantic, precise, splatter, extremely intense hardcore LP that suggested the arrival of a major new force within the genre. But today, we get the slightly baffling news that Vein are no more. According to a press […]
Korn and Yelawolf Cover 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'
Raise your hand if you expected Korn and Yelawolf to collaborate. Now, raise your hand if you ever thought you’d see the two join forces to cover a Charlie Daniels song. Yep, not many — if any — thought that would happen. But it did. The Jonathan Davis-led band enlisted the rapper to tackle the recently […]
Matmos – “lo! Lavendar River Karez” (Feat. Yo La Tengo)
Next month, the long-running experimental electronic duo Matmos will come out with a new album, and it’s a big one. The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form is a three-hour triple album, and like every Matmos album before it, it’s built around a playful concept. This time, Matmos brought in contributions from 99 different […]
Madeline Kenney – "White Window Light"
Back in May, Madeline Kenney announced her third album, Sucker’s Lunch. After previously teaming up with Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner for 2018’s Perfect Shapes, Kenney once more enlisted Wasner — and, this time, her bandmate Andy Stack — as co-producers and players. This seems like it was a good decision. The interaction between Kenney’s songwriting […]
Lisel – "Night And Day"
Last year, Eliza Bagg — of the Brooklyn indie-poppers Pavo Pavo — released her debut album as Lisel, the impressive Angels On The Slope. Earlier this year, she released a new 7″ that was a team-up with Angel Olsen associate Ben Babbitt, and today she’s announcing another new 7″. For this one, Bagg collaborated with […]
Jordana – "Forgetter"
Back when Jordana Nye re-released her debut Classical Notions Of Happiness early in the year, it came with a couple extra songs that suggested she was expanding beyond her initial bedroom pop aesthetics. “Crunch” and “Sway” began to establish a whole new fleshed-out, heavier, ’90s-indebted style, and then Jordana announced the Something To Say EP, […]
Alex Kapranos & Clara Luciani – “Summer Wine” (Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra Cover)
One of the great working partnerships in all of ’60s pop was the one between Lee Hazlewood, the spaced-out cowboy libertine who may have been America’s closest thing to a Serge Gainsbourg figure, and Nancy Sinatra, a rare example of show-business royalty who firmly established herself as something other than a famous last name. Together, […]
Skullcrusher – "Trace"
Recent singles “Places/Plans” and “Day Of Show” have marked out Skullcrusher as a plaintive and slightly celestial folk project. “Trace,” the latest from LA-based Helen Ballentine’s debut EP, does not significantly undermine that perception. It’s just as glimmeringly pretty, with intriguing medieval visuals to match via directors Silken Weinberg and Jeremy Reynoso. “If I stay […]