Lately, scratchy-guitar godfather Thurston Moore has been throwing a bunch of his outtakes up onto Bandcamp. Last month, Moore shared a couple of unreleased tracks from his post-Sonic Youth band Chelsea Light Moving. Today, he’s dropped a 2016-vintage song from the Thurston Moore Group, the band that also included drummer Steve Shelley, Moore’s former Sonic […]
Ela Minus – "they told us it was hard, but they were wrong"
It’s a big week for Colombian expats making adventurous electronic music! Toronto multidisciplinary artist Lido Pimienta will release her astounding new album Miss Colombia on Friday, and today, Brooklyn-based Ela Minus has released her debut single for Domino Records. Minus has been active in various underground spheres for many years. At age 12 she began […]
Stream Florry's New 'Oh You Vacation Time' EP
About a year-and-a-half ago, Philadelphia musician Francie Medosch released her debut album as Florry, Brown Bunny, which led us to name the project a Band To Watch. Today, she’s has released a new EP called Oh You Vacation Time, four songs of bummer acoustic rock built on Medosch’s syrupy drawl and recurring feelings of weakness […]
The Walkmen Co-Founder Walter Martin Releases 'Quarantine Boogie (Loco)' With Matt Berninger
Hamilton Leithauser isn’t the former member of The Walkmen staying busy. On Wednesday morning, Walter Martin shared a new song that he recorded in isolation. Titled “Quarantine Boogie (Loco),” the song features guest vocals from Matt Berninger of The National (who also appears in the video) along with horn accompaniment by Stuart Bogie. “I made this […]
Norah Jones – “How I Weep”
Norah Jones was supposed to release a new album called Pick Me Up Off The Floor next month, but plans changed, and the album is now due for release a month and a half later. Back when Jones announced the LP, she shared the lead single “I’m Alive,” a collaboration with Jeff and Spencer Tweedy. […]
Bing & Ruth – "I Had No Dream"
Over the years, the composer David Moore has led the malleable classical group Bing & Ruth through all kinds of different explorations. Most recently, that resulted in 2017’s No Home Of The Mind. Now, Moore’s about to return with a new collection. Titled Species, it’s an album that delves into a variety of trance-like states, […]
Muzz – "Red Western Sky"
Muzz is the new band made up of Interpol’s Paul Banks, the Walkmen drummer Matt Barrick, and veteran producer/multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman, who’s played with people like the National and Hiss Golden Messenger and is currently one third of the folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman. Although the first Muzz songs just came out last month, their […]
Pottery – "Hot Like Jungle"
After releasing one of 2019’s best EPs, the Montreal art-rock weirdoes Pottery announced that they’d be following it up this year with their full-length debut Welcome To Bobby’s Motel. So far we’ve heard the multi-part lead single freakout “Texas Drums Parts I & II” — which ranked amongst our favorite songs that week — as […]
Amber Mark – "Waiting (Demo)"
On April Fool’s Day, Artist To Watch Amber Mark released a cover of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box.” It was the first installment of Covered-19, a series of tracks Mark is producing and recording in her NYC flat and releasing “every fortnight” with a self-made visual during the lockdown. It’s been two weeks, and indeed Mark […]
Walter Martin Teams Up With The National's Matt Berninger For Funny Coronavirus Song "Quarantine Music (Loco)"
Hamilton Leithauser isn’t the only former Walkmen member with new music out these days. Since the breakup of the Walkmen, the great New York indie rock institution, multi-instrumentalist Walter Martin has been making what could be described as kids’ music; he just dropped the new LP The World At Night in January. Today, he’s come […]