It’s a big year for the Smashing Pumpkins. The band is celebrating three decades of their beloved album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness with a goth Erewhon smoothie, a reissue with a 6xLP box set, and an opera with a 60-piece orchestra. The performances with Lyric Opera orchestra and chorus are happening in the […]
Olivia Dean Blasts “Disgusting” Ticketmaster & AEG Over Resale Prices, Companies Respond
Olivia Dean has her first Top 5 hit in the US with “Man I Need.” She nabbed her first Grammy nomination, for Best New Artist. She performed on Saturday Night Live and at the ARIA Awards in the past week. Now the rising British pop star has reached the career milestone of publicly feuding with […]
Tems Drops Surprise New EP Love Is A Kingdom
The Nigerian star Tems finally only just released her official debut album Born In The Wild last year, but she’s already racked up a ton of accomplishments. She’s got a couple of Grammys, an Oscar nomination, and a #1 Hot 100 hit on her résumé. In the past few months, she’s appeared on records with […]
Fleet Foxes – “Angel In The Snow” (Elliott Smith Cover)
The soundtrack for the new Amazon-made Christmas movie Oh. What. Fun. is speckled with indie stars like Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, Weyes Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Madi Diaz, Uwade, Andy Shauf, and Lorely Rodriguez (Empress Of). A lot of the artists have recorded popular and traditional Christmas songs for the project, but Fleet […]
Robyn Is Playing Brooklyn On New Year’s Eve
Robyn is in album mode: previewing a new LP at Paris Fashion Week, debuting a video for lead single “Dopamine,” performing her first concert in six years. She’ll be doing another gig soon, and it sounds like a party. Today the Swedish alt-pop legend announced a New Year’s Eve show at Brooklyn Paramount. Here’s the […]
Overmono – “Paradise Runner”
In 2023, the UK dance duo Overmono made it into our Album Of The Week column with their full-length debut Good Lies. Overmono, the team of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, haven’t released another LP since then, but they’ve done one-off collaborations with people like Fred again.. and Ruthven. A few months ago, Overmono teamed […]
Bitter Branches – “Basic Karate”
Tim Singer was once the famously intense frontman for Deadguy, the New Jersey hardcore/noise-rock band who broke up when they were just hitting their mid-’90s peak. These days, Singer is once again the famously intense frontman for the reunited Deadguy. Earlier this year, they released Near-Death Travel Services, their first album since the 1995 landmark […]
Westside Cowboy – “Can’t See”
We just named Westside Cowboy one of the Best New Artists Of 2025, and they’re gearing up to start 2026 off with a bang. In January — just in time for their European tour dates supporting Geese — the Manchester indie rockers will release their new EP So Much Country ‘Till We Get There, which […]
Robyn Gives “Dopamine” Its Live Debut At First Show In Six Years
Last week, Swedish pop queen Robyn returned with “Dopamine,” her first new single in seven years. There’s been talk of a new Robyn album, though we don’t know anything concrete about that yet. We don’t know anything about a tour, either, though god knows that would rule. On Wednesday night, however, Robyn played her first […]
addy – “cradle” & “fire, fire”
We get two new songs today from addy, the folksy indie-pop project of Philadelphia-based Ada Paige. Titled “cradle” and “fire, fire,” the two tracks almost bleed together into one, the former’s understated beauty giving way to a bit more oomph in the latter. They’re co-produced by addy and longtime Lucy Dacus collaborators Collin Pastore and […]