The Streets teamed up with Tame Impala last month on the new single “Call My Phone Thinking I’m Doing Nothing Better.” And today, UK quasi-rapper Mike Skinner is back with that song’s B-side, “Where The F* & K Did April Go.” “I wrote this last week,” Skinner says. “It’s a weird time isn’t it. We […]
Joe Goddard & Hayden Thorpe – "Unknown Song"
Former Wild Beasts singer Hayden Thorpe has released one solo album, last year’s Diviner, since his band broke up a few years ago. And now, BrooklynVegan reports that he’s teaming up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, his Domino labelmate, for a brand new single called “Unknown Song.” “The lockdown has really made it apparent how […]
Cage the Elephant Share Zoom-Compiled Video for 'Black Madonna'
Cage the Elephant, like everyone else, have been stuck in quarantine. Just like their peers, they decided to do something fun and creative by using Zoom. In this case, it meant creating a new video for “Black Madonna.” The video, which was directed by singer Matt Shultz, was put together entirely over Zoom, is made up […]
David Bowie's Late '90s 'LiveAndWell.Com' Is Coming to Streaming Services
David Bowie is getting another archival release. The live collection, LiveAndWell.Com, will be released on streaming services next Friday (May 15) via Parlophone Records. The collection was recorded in 1997 during the Earthling tour. It features performances from shows in New York City, Amsterdam, Rio De Janeiro, and the Phoenix Festival in the United Kingdom. […]
The Magnetic Fields – “I’ve Got A Date With Jesus”
Next week, Stephin Merritt’s Magnetic Fields will release the new project Quickies, the latest in a long line of records written around a particular idea. This time, we’re dealing with a five-EP box set — 28 new songs, each under three minutes long, most with pretty funny song titles and concepts. We’ve already posted the […]
Deap Vally – "Space Age Love Song" (A Flock Of Seagulls Cover)
Martha Coolidge’s 1983 movie Valley Girl starred Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman as star-crossed SoCal lovers in a storyline inspired by Romeo And Juliet. Just in time for the film’s 35th anniversary in 2018, director Rachel Lee Goldenberg remade Valley Girl as a jukebox musical featuring hits from the ’80s. The film was shelved at […]
Fauness – "Dreamcatcher" & "Violet Flame"
We named idiosyncratic London pop musician Fauness one of the best new artists of 2019 after she caught our attention with her promising EPs Toxic Femininity and Lashes In A Landfill. Today, she’s returning with the new digital single “Dreamcatcher” and its B-side, “Violet Flame,” and it’s just as good. “Dreamcatcher,” unsurprisingly, is the standout, […]
Rhye – "Beautiful"
Rhye, the soft, sensuous indie-R&B project of Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based musician Mike Milosh, is back. The slinky, understated “Beautiful” is Rhye’s first proper single since the release of last year’s piano-focused Spirit. “As we all share in this collective crazy moment that is quarantine, there are many ways to deal with the isolation, many ways […]
Puscifer – “Apocalyptical”
Last year, after making everyone wait for about six eternities, Tool finally came back with the triumphant album Fear Inoculum. This year, they were touring behind it. That’s obviously stopped. (Fans at a tool show in New Zealand in early March may have been exposed to coronavirus.) So now frontman Maynard James Keenan has turned […]
No Joy – "Birthmark"
It’s one of music’s great paradoxes: No Joy inevitably leads to joy. The Montréal shoegazers had a sneaky-great run early last decade, but they haven’t released a proper album in five years, though they did kick out a series of EPs including collaborations with Sonic Boom and Jorge Elbrecht, who is now a member of […]