When Nick Cave was asked about Rising Signs’ claim that Grinderman’s “Palaces of Montezuma” sounds very similar to the band’s “Grey Man” and if purely “original music” can actually be written, it sparked Cave’s latest entry in The Red Hand Files. Cave revealed that he did talk to Warren Ellis, who wrote the chords and […]
Bully Cover Nirvana & Orville Peck: Listen
Bully have joined the onslaught of indie artists releasing new music today as Bandcamp waives its share of the purchase price. Like former Priests singer Katie Alice Greer, Alicia Bognanno has chosen to release a pair of covers. Bognanno opted for songs originally released by Sub Pop, Bully’s current label home. Up first is a […]
Metz – “Acid” & “Slow Decay”
Today is one of the days that the good people at Bandcamp, in an effort to make things easier for musicians dealing with the current pandemic absolutely fucking up their livelihoods, are waiving their share of the revenues from sales. Today, everything you pay for music on Bandcamp will go directly to artists and record […]
Clairo – "Brown Trout Blues" (Johnny Flynn Cover)
Claire Cottrill’s first releases of 2020 were a pair of lo-fi demos, “february 15, 2020 london, uk” and “Everything I Know.” Now she’s back with a barebones cover of Johnny Flynn’s “Brown Trout Blues” so intimate it feels like you’re in the room with her. In a YouTube caption, she calls it one of her […]
Drive-By Truckers – "Quarantine Together"
Earlier this year, the long-running institution Drive-By Truckers returned with their latest album, The Unraveling. With much of their work typically being conceptual in nature, it was an album that was born from the tumultuous political times of recent years. And that was, you know, before everything else that’s happened this year. Drive-By Truckers were […]
K A G – "Ode To Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry Cover) & "Wolf Like Me" (TV On The Radio Cover)
The last time Bandcamp did its special revenue share-waiving promotion, Priests frontwoman Katie Alice Greer released two EPs and a single of new material. Today, Bandcamp is back at it, and so is K A G. This time, Greer has shared lo-fi, bare-bones guitar covers of Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 story song “Ode To Billie Joe” […]
David Byrne Debuts 'Now Anything Is Possible'
Reasons to be Cheerful, the online magazine founded by David Byrne, has just dropped a new reported series “about changes that have long seemed out of reach, but now, amid the coronavirus outbreak, are happening fast — and how we can make them stick.” And it is called “Now Anything is Possible.” From universal basic […]
Marissa Nadler Covers Metallica, Bob Dylan, Townes Zan Vandt, King Crimson On New EP: Listen
Spectral folk singer Marissa Nadler has shared a new EP of covers for Bandcamp’s second revenue-waiving day today. Well, mostly covers — as BrooklynVegan reports, Covers 3 features Nadler’s takes on Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” Townes Van Zandt’s “My Proud Mountains,” Bob Dylan’s “I Was Young When I Left Home,” and King Crimson’s “Moonchild” in […]
Stream Gumm’s Piece It Together EP
Last month, the Chattanooga, Tennessee band Gumm landed in our Month In Hardcore column with a compilation track. Today, the group has dropped a three-song EP called Piece It Together, and it goes ridiculously hard. Gumm make what I guess you’d call melodic hardcore, though “melodic” is always a relative term when it comes to […]
Stream Sacred Bones Records' Black Sabbath Tribute Album 'What Is This That Stands Before Me?'
Black Sabbath is one of those bands that serves as a major gateway drug when you’re young and first discovering music, and then you can sort of wind up taking them for granted. You forget just how mind-blowing it was to hear “War Pigs” for the first time, or if you’re of a certain generation […]