It’s noise. It’s all noise. You can get lost in it. When you tune in, you might catch a few quick shards of something familiar and comforting. You might be like: “Oh, huh, Blonde Redhead, that’s cool. Did one of their songs blow up on TikTok or something?” Most of the time, though, it’s sheer […]
Sacred Paws – “Another Day”
It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard from Sacred Paws. The Glasgow/London duo of Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers made some buzz with their 2017 debut album Strike A Match and its 2019 follow-up Run Around The Sun, making a unique brand of arty post-punk with a sunny Afrobeat flair. This week, Sacred Paws […]
Bob Dylan Responds To Backup Dancer Who Says She Was Told Not To Make Eye Contact
It was true a few weeks ago, and it’s still true today: Dylan be tweetin’. Yes, the real Bob Dylan is posting messages to his formerly management-controlled account on x dot com. The other day he tweeted about attending a Nick Cave concert in Paris, which is not as mind-blowing a thought as Bob Dylan […]
Posthumous Mac Miller Album Balloonerism Announced
Mac Miller was sitting on a lot of unreleased music when he died unexpectedly at 26 in 2018. We’ve heard a bit of it in the form of some one-off tracks, some Madlib sets, and the 2020 album Circles, which was a companion piece to his final LP Swimming. Today, the rapper’s family has announced […]
Jack Harlow Returns with New Single & Video ‘Hello Miss Johnson’: Watch
It’s crazy to think that Jack Harlow released his number 1 single ‘Lovin’ on Me’ a year ago and then completely disappeared as far as putting out more music is concerned. The reasons behind the decision is not known yet but Jack finally announced a few days ago that he is back with a new […]
Gridiron – “Talk Real”
Earlier this summer, the thunderously ignorant, rap-inflected hardcore band Gridiron were selling Charli XCX parody shirts. It had the Brat green and the font, but it said “Grid.” If you saw that shirt out in the wild, would you get it? Does anyone even refer to Gridiron as just “Grid”? It’s so stupid! I love […]
Molly Burch – “It’s Christmas Time (Again)”
At this point, nobody is too cool to make Christmas music. The Los Angeles indie-pop singer-songwriter Molly Burch was way ahead of everyone else on that. Burch released her Daydreamer LP last year, and she dropped an entire Christmas album called The Molly Burch Christmas Album back in 2019, and she followed it with the […]
Bartees Strange – “Xmas”
Bartees Strange is in the middle of rolling out his new album Horror, but he’s taking a break from that today to give us a great new holiday single. “Xmas” finds Strange tapping into that Mk.gee/1975 guitar sound and borrowing some melodic phrasing from Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” in service of pure, uncut seasonal melancholia. […]
Elvis Costello Releases Album & Plays Colbert With T Bone Burnett, Announces Tour With Steve Nieve
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett first worked together in 1985, when they released “The People’s Limousine,” a single that was credited to the Coward Brothers, those guys’ fictional alter-egos. A year later, Burnett co-produced Costello’s recently-reissued classic King Of America. It took nearly 40 years, but Costello and Burnett have now made a full […]
Chalumeau Confronts Division with Provocative Anthem “No Common Ground”
Political folk-rock finds a compelling voice in Chalumeau’ s “No Common Ground”, a track that captures the urgency and tension of a deeply polarized era. The duo, Katherine Bergeron and Butch Rovan, both accomplished musicians and educators at Brown University, have channeled the fractured state of modern discourse into a song that resonates with raw […]