A week and a half ago, Taylor Swift released Midnights, a fairly low-key pop album that’s putting up absolutely insane numbers. In its first week, Midnights sold more copies than any other album in seven years. It also made Taylor Swift the first artist ever to occupy all top 10 slots on the Billboard Hot […]
New Pagans – “Karin Was Not A Rebel” & “Fresh Young Overlook”
Last year, the Irish group New Pagans released their debut album The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots And All, an impressive showing that led us to name them a Band To Watch and landed them on our Best New Bands Of 2021 list. This past September, they released a new single, “Better People,” and today […]
Drowse – “Three Faces (Cyanoacrylate)”
At the end of the week, Portland-based Kyle Bates will release his latest Drowse album, Wane Into It. He’s thus far shared the Midwife collab “Untrue In Headphones” and “Mystery Pt. 2.” Today he returns with one more single, the album’s spooky, meditative penultimate track “Three Faces (Cyanoacrylate).” It finds Bates singing in a low, […]
Maria BC – “ROF (Rachika Nayar Remix)”
Maria BC and Rachika Nayar both released albums this year, Hyaline and Heaven Come Crashing (both Albums Of The Week), and they collaborated on a pair of tracks that appeared Nayar’s full-length. Both also were included on our Best New Bands Of 2022 list. Today, they’re in each other’s orbit yet again for a new […]
Gina Birch – “Wish I Was You” (Feat. Thurston Moore)
Last year, Gina Birch — the bassist for the much-loved post-punk band the Raincoats — released her first-ever solo single, “Feminist Song.” Now Birch is announcing her debut solo album, I Play My Bass Loud, which will be out on Third Man Records in February. “The album distills my years of musical, political, and artistic […]
Video: Cormega Ft. Havoc “Paradise”
Welcome to Miami. Cormega and Havoc are living it up in their new music video, “Paradise”. In the luxury clip, the Queens duo rap the importance of keeping it real while yachting across Miami. “Niggas lying on their dead and putting heaven on it / My niggas live this shit for real and not just metaphoric,” […]
Jeff Tweedy – “I Hear… Goodnight” (Low & The Dirty Three Cover)
Jeff Tweedy has shared a cover of “I Hear… Goodnight,” a song that appears on Low and the Dirty Three’s 2001 collaborative EP In The Fishtank. Low’s Mimi Parker passed away this weekend. Tweedy produced the group’s 2013 album The Invisible Way. The Wilco leader put out the cover through his Starship Casual newsletter. Listen […]
Heather Woods Broderick – “Blood Run Through Me”
Earlier this year, the Portland musician Heather Woods Broderick released an instrumental cello album, Domes, but it’s been a few years since she put out her last proper album of melancholy singer-songwriter fare, which came with 2019’s Invitation. Today, though, she’s sharing a new single, “Blood Run Through Me.” “[It’s] about human connection and the […]
Narrow Head – “Moments Of Clarity”
Two years ago, the heavy Texan alt-rockers Narrow Head impressed a whole lot of people with their album 12th House Rock. Today, the band has announced plans to follow that LP with a new one called Moments Of Clarity, set to arrive early next year. The band recorded the album in Los Angeles with Animal […]
Jordana – “You’re In The Way”
Later this week, Jordana is releasing a new EP, I’m Doing Well, Thanks For Asking, the follow-up to last year’s full-length Face The Wall. We’ve heard “Is It Worth It Now” and “SYT” from it already, and today Jordana is sharing one more single before the whole EP’s out, the laidback “You’re In The Way,” […]