Last month, Minneapolis singer, rapper, and producer ZORA announced her new album, BELLAdona. Following her 2021 debut Z1, BELLAdona will be out January 17 and features the already-shared single “VIDEOGURL.” Today, ZORA is back with another album preview called “head2toe,” which press materials describe as being “about reclaiming joy and pleasure after experiencing sexual assault.” […]
Julien Baker, Calvin Lauber, SOAK, & Quinn Christopherson Share Cover Of Belle & Sebastian’s “Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying”
Back in September, the nonprofit Red Hot announced TRAИƧA, a 46-track compilation featuring Sade, Grouper, André 3000, Adrianne Lenker, and many more. We’ve heard quite a few tracks already from the project, and today offers two more. First off, Julien Baker and producer Calvin Lauber have teamed up for a cover of Belle And Sebastian’s […]
YHWH Nailgun – “Penetrator”
Experimental and convulsive Brooklyn four-piece YHWH Nailgun were kind enough to perform “Venison Mama” at our Austin Day party with Partisan Records last April. In terms of releases, they’ve shared a smattering — last year’s singles “Tear Pusher” and “Castrato Raw (Fullback),” and they had a couple of EPs in 2022, No Midwife And I […]
Stream American Motors’ Ominous, Explosive Debut Album Content & Watch Their New “A Half Finished Wall Of Glass Blocks” Video
“All my rowdy friends have settled down/ On the outskirts of town/ We’re doing divorcee drugs in bathroom stalls/ Of strip clubs or strip malls.” So go the opening lines of “A Half Finished Wall Of Glass Blocks” by American Motors, a noisy, minimalist post-something trio (Post-rock? Post-punk? Post-hardcore? It all kinda fits…) from Lancaster, […]
Fly Anakin – “YOUGOTME!!” (Prod. Quelle Chris)
The other day, I was driving into Richmond for a show, and I noticed a big billboard hanging over Route 64. It was a picture of Mutant Academy, the great local indie-rap collective, and it said something like “Mutant Academy welcomes you to Richmond.” This was one of those digital billboards that keeps changing, and […]
World News – “Don’t Ever Meet Your Hero”
The truism about not meeting your heroes is an old one, and it’s unfortunately right pretty often. I’ve met a bunch of the people that I grew up admiring, and most of them have turned out to be lovely people, at least in my experience. The ones that turn out shitty, though? Those ones stick […]
Stream James Blackshaw’s First New Album In Almost A Decade
The English acoustic-guitar virtuoso James Blackshaw has been through some things since the release of his last album, 2015’s Summoning Suns. In 2016, Blackshaw announced that he was leaving his music career behind, citing how difficult it’s become to make a living. He moved instead into the restaurant world, which honestly doesn’t seem that much […]
Gunna Releases ‘Him All Along’ Music Video: Watch
Young Thug has shared the music video for his song ‘Him All Along’ today. The video comes on the heels of reports that Thug dissed Gunna in a tweet on Saturday (Nov. 9) before deleting it from the platform. “Gunna stop acting like we friends on the internet, I don’t know you my guy,” he […]
Geologist & D.S. – “Route 9 Falls”
Old friends Brian Weitz (aka Geologist from Animal Collective) and Doug Shaw (aka D.S. of Highlife, Gang Gang Dance, and White Magic) have teamed up on a new LP. A Shaw Deal is coming in January via Drag City, and its transcendently pretty opening track “Route 9 Falls” is out now. The album’s origin story: […]
Angel Olsen Announces New Compilation & Covers Project Cosmic Waves Volume 1
Back in 2021, the great Angel Olsen released a lark of an EP called Aisles. On that record, Olsen covered a bunch of instantly recognizable ’80s pop classics. Since then, Olsen has made a lot of other stuff, including her countrified album Big Time and a whole lot of guest appearances. Now, Olsen is covering […]