Just a couple weeks ago, Band To Watch honorees Retirement Party announced their sophomore album, Runaway Dog, the follow-up to 2018’s Somewhat Literate. Its lead single and title track made our best songs of the week list, and today the Chicago band are already back with another new song from the album. “Compensation” is bashing, […]
Painted Zeros – “Break”
In about a month’s time, Painted Zeroes — the project of the Brooklyn-based musician Katie Lau — are releasing a new album, When You Found Forever, the follow-up to 2015’s Floriography. We heard one song from it, “Commuter Rage,” last month, and today we’re getting another one, “Break,” a gorgeous swirl of guitars and muted […]
Mykki Blanco – "You Will Find It" (Feat. Devendra Banhart)
Late last year, Mykki Blanco returned with their first new song since their 2016 debut Mykki, “Lucky (Live In London).” Earlier this month, they returned with another new one called “Patriarchy Aint The End Of Me.” Both were supposedly examples of a whole bunch of new music Blanco had been working on in the last […]
Infant Island – “Content”
Infant Island absolutely rule. The Fredricksburg, Virginia band draws from late-’90s screamo to make an urgent, noisy, towering form of cathartically bugged-out basement rock. Earlier month, they released a towering EP called Sepulcher. That was the first part of a deluge. The second part will arrive next month, when Infant Island follow up their great […]
Land Of Talk – “Compelled”
Right now, for obvious reasons, a whole lot of artists are delaying their planned album releases. It’s tough, after all, to promote a new LP when you can’t tour. This morning, we already added Protomartyr to the list of artists whose albums won’t be coming out on time. Today, we’ve got another one for the […]
Johanna Warren – "Twisted"
Back in February, Johanna Warren announced she was returning with a new album called Chaotic Good. So far, we’ve heard several tracks from it, including “Bed Of Nails,” “Part Of It,” and “Only The Truth.” And now, ahead of Chaotic Good finally arriving this Friday, Warren has shared one final preview of the album. The […]
BADBADNOTGOOD – "Goodbye Blue" & "Glide (Goodbye Blue Pt. 2)"
As they grew more popular over the course of the last decade, it often felt as if BADBADNOTGOOD were always around. The malleable Toronto jazz group toured relentlessly, and their name appeared frequently alongside high-profile collaborators in the rap world. After releasing their last album, IV, in 2016 and subsequently taking it on the road, […]
Hinds – "Just Like Kids (Miau)"
Hinds have been rolling out their third album, The Prettiest Curse, ever since “Riding Solo” dropped last December. When they officially announced the LP with the release of “Good Bad Times,” it was scheduled in early April. That was still the plan when “Come Back And Love Me” came around, but that was about a […]
Protomartyr – "Worm In Heaven"
Last month, Protomartyr revealed they would return with a new collection of their bleakly philosophical, apocalyptic rock called Ultimate Success Today. Along with the announcement, they shared the album’s lead single “Processed By The Boys” — a very promising first glimpse that ranked amongst our favorite songs that week. Today, they are back with some […]
Alt-J, Grouplove and More Cover Bob Dylan
As more and more artists are collaborating on classic songs, acts from Canvasback Music, Atlantic Records, Parlophone also put their talents together to do an acoustic performance of Bob Dylan’s 1975 track, “Shelter From the Storm.” An idea that bloomed from the early days of the global pandemic, alt-J, Grouplove, Jealous of the Birds, Briston […]