Lucy Dacus, the rumors are true! The Virginia indie-rock all-star and boygenius member is going all out to celebrate this Saturday’s 25th anniversary of her Matador label-mates Yo La Tengo’s Electr-o-pura, which also happens to be her own 25th birthday. Matador has announced a deluxe reissue of the album today, much like the ones they’re […]
Liam Gallagher Is Unimpressed With Recovered Oasis Song: 'Make Sure I’m Singing on It'
On Wednesday (April 29), Noel Gallagher surprised and pleased Oasis fans by releasing a long lost song. “Don’t Stop…” was previously performed once…at a soundcheck in Hong Kong that circulated only on bootlegs before his discovering of the song on an unlabeled CD while in quarantine. While this seemed like a nice gesture from the […]
Billie Joe Armstrong Performs an Italian Song for New Cover Series
Billie Joe Armstrong is either a) super enthusiastic about performing while in quarantine or b) really, really bored. Either way, he’s been jamming away on music. On Wednesday, the Green Day singer shared a cover of “Amico” by Italian singer Don Backy. It’s part of his latest cover series for Wednesdays, aptly titled No Fun […]
Preview New Music Arcade Fire Have Been Working On Under Quarantine
On his 40th birthday, Win Butler shared a note revealing that Arcade Fire had begun recording the follow-up to 2017’s Everything Now and that work was continuing under quarantine. Now Butler has taken to Instagram to share some brief snippets of that music. It sounds pretty good! The Everything Now era was divisive to say […]
Watch Lucy Dacus Cover Yo La Tengo's "Tom Courtenay"
Yo La Tengo’s Electr-o-Pura turns 25 on Saturday (May 2), and Matador Records is celebrating it with a special reissue of the 1995 record. As the third installment of its Matador Revisionist History series, the label will be dropping two vinyl LPs that you can preorder here. Matador previously released a reissue of Pavement’s Wowee […]
Jess Williamson – "Smoke"
Jess Williamson is releasing a new album, Sorceress, in a couple weeks, the follow-up to the Los Angeles via Texas songwriter’s 2018 album Cosmic Wink. We’ve heard “Wind On Tin” and “Infinite Scroll” from it already, and today she’s sharing another one called “Smoke.” It’s a driving track that talks about the little rebellions we […]
Arca Announces New Album 'KiCk i': Watch The "Nonbinary" Video
Arca kicked off the year with a 62-minute-long single called “@@@@@,” and last month she announced a new album called KiCk i in an interview where she identified Björk and Rosalía as contributors and started talking up her new era. Today, we’re getting our first official taste of KiCk i with “Nonbinary,” a playful and […]
Braids – "Just Let Me"
Braids’ new album Shadow Offering was supposed to come out last week, but the band pushed its release date to mid-June. They were deep into the rollout when they did that, though, so we’ve heard a good chunk of tracks from it already, all of them really great — “Eclipse (Ashley),” “Young Buck,” and “Snow […]
New Video: The Game Ft. Nipsey Hussle “Welcome Home” | Rap Radar
R.I.P. Come home with The Game in his Born 2 Rap‘s new music video featuring the late Nipsey Hussle. Directed by Stefano Bertelli, the animated visual pays homage to Nipsey Hussle and Kobe Bryant. The Game raps his hometown ode inside an In-N-Out burger joint, while Nipsey’s perched on his The Marathon Clothing store and […]
New Video: Mitch Ft. Ann Marie “Like This” | Rap Radar
Nothing like it. R&B crooner, Mitch, is gearing up to release his new project Better for You. Here he gives the fans a taste of what to expect with the flashy video for “Like This”, featuring Ann Marie. Watch below as they tell their former lovers what they’re missing out on.