In the midst of the ongoing pandemic, Twenty One Pilots have managed to hunker down to write and record new material. The first of those songs is “Level of Concern.” It’s their first new song since the release of 2018’s Trench. The video was shot in what appears to be the duo’s home studio with clips spliced […]
Selena Gomez's Defiant, Relatable "Boyfriend" Sounds Like A Smash
Album Review: Selena Gomez’s ‘Rare’ Selena Gomez released the deluxe edition of Rare this morning (April 9) and it includes three new songs. The focus track, and next single, is called “Boyfriend” and it might just be the most relatable bop of 2020. On it, the pop star expresses her frustration with the dating game […]
Neil Young – "Shut It Down 2020"
Neil Young has been keeping himself busy in quarantine. The legendary folk-rocker and his wife Daryl Hannah have been periodically inviting us into their cozy home in Telluride, Colorado for Young’s acoustic Fireside Sessions series. And now he’s recorded a new version of “Shut It Down,” a song from last year’s Colorado album with Crazy […]
Hayley Williams – “My Friend”
Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams appears to be on a mission to drop every single song from her forthcoming solo debut before the actual album comes out. Williams will release her album Petals For Armor next month, and she has now shared eight of its songs — a five-track sampler EP, followed by “Over Yet” and […]
Neil Young Shares New Version of 'Shut It Down'
Neil Young has shared a new version of “Shut It Down.” The song originally appeared on 2019’s Colorado, which was with Crazy Horse. “These are uncertain times. I wish you all the best as you care for our sick, the young and old who we love so much. Sending the best wishes to all the health […]
awakebutstillinbed – "Me" (The 1975 Cover)
The San Jose emo Band To Watch awakebutstillinbed named their debut album what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people is see you, so it will not surprise you at all to learn they’ve covered a song by the 1975. Not one from I like it when you […]
Rogue Wave – "Aesop Rock"
Earlier this year, indie-rap veteran Aesop Rock released a standalone single called “Rogue Wave.” Indie-rock veterans Rogue Wave noticed. And now the Oakland band have returned from a two year-hiatus with a response, a new track of their own called “Aesop Rock.” With the release of “Aesop Rock,” Rogue Wave are asking fans to donating […]
Gorillaz Drop Latest 'Song Machine' Track, 'Aries'
Leave it to the Gorillaz to visualize what everyone’s feeling at the moment. They’re latest Song Machine offering, “Aries,” takes us into how they escape from being in lockdown. As the world is currently staying inside, we see Murdoc, 2D, Noodle and Russel hop into vehicles and hit the open road. 2D and Murdoc are […]
Washed Out – "Too Late"
Washed Out, the chillwave-pioneering synthpop project of Georgia native Ernest Greene, has just shared a new song called “Too Late.” And although the planned music video shoot for the track had to be cancelled in the wake of the pandemic, Greene ended up with a surplus of crowd-sourced footage after putting a call out to […]
Gorillaz – "Aries" (Feat. Peter Hook & Georgia)
After Damon Albarn revived Gorillaz with 2017’s Humanz, the project has been pretty consistently active. The Now Now quickly followed in 2018, and then in the beginning of this year Gorillaz began teasing something called Song Machine. The premise: a direct feed of new “episodes,” or singles, featuring a characteristically broad array of collaborators and […]