Special Interest are a noise-fucked electronic punk band from New Orleans. Their Bandcamp genre tags include “no wave,” “anarcho glam,” and “Gregg Araki’s cd collection.” The first song on their 2018 debut album is called ” Young, Gifted, Black, In Leather.” As you may have discerned, their music is chaotic and urgent and deceptively catchy, […]
Cat Power Pays Homage to Cassius' Philippe Zdar with 'Toop Toop'
Cat Power paid homage to her late friend, French producer and collaborator Phillpe Zdar of Cassius with a special cover the French duo’s 2006 hit song, “Troop Troop.” Zdar died on June 19, 2019 after “an accidental fall, through the window of a high floor of a Parisian building.” Cat Power, born Chan Marshall, performaned […]
Pom Pom Squad – "Crimson And Clover" (Tommy James And The Shondells Cover)
Last year, Mia Berrin released her second EP as Pom Pom Squad, Ow. She’s also proven herself to be particularly adept at covers — she did a good one of Weezer’s “Undone (The Sweater Song)” at a show last year and back in January she put out a cover of FKA Twigs’ “Cellophane.” Today, she’s […]
12-Year-Old Keedron Bryant Releases Studio Version Of Viral Protest Song “I Just Wanna Live”
The day after George Floyd was murdered by police, 12-year-old Keedron Bryant shared a video of himself performing an original song called “I Just Wanna Live,” written by his mother Johnetta Bryant, a cappella. “I’m a young black man/ Doing all that I can/ To stand,” he sang. “Oh, but when I look around/ And […]
Stream Peace Test’s New EP Uniform Repression
The Providence band Peace Test make a supremely, commendably ugly form of misanthropic old-school hardcore. Frontman Nolan Cambra’s voice sounds partly like Negative Approach’s John Brannon and partly like an enraged Rottweiler, and the band keeps things fast, punishing, and relentless. Occasionally, Peace Test play so fast that they edge into powerviolence or grindcore territory. […]
Ivorde Is Ok. Releases An Interesting And One Of A Kind Debut Album Called Beautiful life I live.
Ivorde Is Ok.,a Houston, Texas native, is making his way into the music industry with his debut release of Beautiful life I live. The album incorporates strong punk punches and industrial tones that have become an anthem for nostalgic folk tunes. Beautiful life I live. is compiled of ten brilliant tracks that incorporate the artist’s […]
Clipping. – "Chapter 319"
Towards the end of last year, the experimental rap group Clipping. released their great new album There Existed An Addiction To Blood. At the same time, Daveed Diggs was still busy with his acting career as well, and this year he’s been starring in the Snowpiercer TV adaptation. But today Clipping. is back with a […]
Stream Mysterious UK Collective SAULT's New Album 'UNTITLED (Black Is)'
Last May a mysterious group emerged out of the UK with a Kid Sister affiliation and a fascinating debut album called 5 and followed it up with a whole other album called 7 in September. On these releases, SAULT approached sounds ranging from Motown to psychedelic Afrobeat with an instantly recognizable disposition, one that pleasingly […]
Stream Nuvolascura’s New Album As We Suffer From Memory And Imagination
In the past few years, we’ve seen a real rebirth of tangled, expressionist screamo. Bands like Infant Island, Portrayal Of Guilt, and Closer have taken the genre away from the MySpace/Warped Tour version that achieved commercial dominance in the mid-’00s, taking inspiration instead to the genre’s thrashing-around-on-basement-floors beginnings. The Los Angeles band Nuvolascura are a […]
Cat Power & -M- – “Toop Toop” (Cassius Cover)
Cassius’ Philippe Zdar died in a tragic accident one year ago today. Zdar mixed Cat Power’s 2012 album Sun. and she appeared on three songs from Cassius’ 2016 album Ibifornia. When he died, Cat Power remembered Zdar on social media. And today, on the anniversary of his passing, she’s teamed up with French artist and […]