Today is one of the days that the good people at Bandcamp, in an effort to make things easier for musicians dealing with the current pandemic absolutely fucking up their livelihoods, are waiving their share of the revenues from sales. Today, everything you pay for music on Bandcamp will go directly to artists and record […]
Clairo – "Brown Trout Blues" (Johnny Flynn Cover)
Claire Cottrill’s first releases of 2020 were a pair of lo-fi demos, “february 15, 2020 london, uk” and “Everything I Know.” Now she’s back with a barebones cover of Johnny Flynn’s “Brown Trout Blues” so intimate it feels like you’re in the room with her. In a YouTube caption, she calls it one of her […]
Drive-By Truckers – "Quarantine Together"
Earlier this year, the long-running institution Drive-By Truckers returned with their latest album, The Unraveling. With much of their work typically being conceptual in nature, it was an album that was born from the tumultuous political times of recent years. And that was, you know, before everything else that’s happened this year. Drive-By Truckers were […]
K A G – "Ode To Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry Cover) & "Wolf Like Me" (TV On The Radio Cover)
The last time Bandcamp did its special revenue share-waiving promotion, Priests frontwoman Katie Alice Greer released two EPs and a single of new material. Today, Bandcamp is back at it, and so is K A G. This time, Greer has shared lo-fi, bare-bones guitar covers of Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 story song “Ode To Billie Joe” […]
David Byrne Debuts 'Now Anything Is Possible'
Reasons to be Cheerful, the online magazine founded by David Byrne, has just dropped a new reported series “about changes that have long seemed out of reach, but now, amid the coronavirus outbreak, are happening fast — and how we can make them stick.” And it is called “Now Anything is Possible.” From universal basic […]
Marissa Nadler Covers Metallica, Bob Dylan, Townes Zan Vandt, King Crimson On New EP: Listen
Spectral folk singer Marissa Nadler has shared a new EP of covers for Bandcamp’s second revenue-waiving day today. Well, mostly covers — as BrooklynVegan reports, Covers 3 features Nadler’s takes on Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” Townes Van Zandt’s “My Proud Mountains,” Bob Dylan’s “I Was Young When I Left Home,” and King Crimson’s “Moonchild” in […]
Stream Gumm’s Piece It Together EP
Last month, the Chattanooga, Tennessee band Gumm landed in our Month In Hardcore column with a compilation track. Today, the group has dropped a three-song EP called Piece It Together, and it goes ridiculously hard. Gumm make what I guess you’d call melodic hardcore, though “melodic” is always a relative term when it comes to […]
Stream Sacred Bones Records' Black Sabbath Tribute Album 'What Is This That Stands Before Me?'
Black Sabbath is one of those bands that serves as a major gateway drug when you’re young and first discovering music, and then you can sort of wind up taking them for granted. You forget just how mind-blowing it was to hear “War Pigs” for the first time, or if you’re of a certain generation […]
Joan Shelley – "Bed In The River"
Less than a year after releasing Like The River Loves The Sea, Joan Shelley returned this spring with two new songs, the spare “Blue Skies” and the even more minimal “Between Rock & Sky.” Today she’s sharing another calmingly gorgeous new track. Like Shelley’s other recent output, “Bed In The River” amounts to little more […]
Archers of Loaf Share Cover of Rolling Stones' 'Street Fighting Man'
Earlier this year, Archers of Loaf announced their return with their first new song in over two decades. Now, they gave fans another treat in the form of a thunderous cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man.” “Street Fighting Man” is the B-side to the North Carolina band’s upcoming Record Store Day single, with […]