We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. On April 19, Bethany Cosentino posted the well-worn dog-in-burning-house “This Is Fine” meme to her Twitter account. “Two weeks from today, all of our lives […]
Tom DeLonge Gloats Over UFO Congressional Testimony
Tom DeLonge has been all-in on UFOs and aliens for a long while now. He even heads up a company called To The Stars that purports to educate people on the existence of UFOs. Yesterday, former Air Force intelligence officer Major David Grusch testified in Congress and said that the government was concealing a “multi-decade” […]
Video: Lil Tjay Ft. Fivio Foreign “Bla Bla”
London, stand up! Lil Tjay takes the UK by storm in his new video “Bla Bla” featuring Fivio Foreign. Courtesy of JLShotThat and TVK Visuals, the two New Yorkers hit the streets with fans and rock the stage during their recent London stop. “Niggas be talking like they with the shits / Told me you […]
Tyler Childers – “In Your Love”
Tyler Childers has announced a new album called Rustin’ In The Rain, which will be out in September. It’s his follow-up to last year’s Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven?, a triple album featuring the same eight songs three different ways. Today, he’s presenting the album’s lead single “in Your Love.” “This is a […]
Watch Pink & Brandi Carlile, Fall Out Boy, Tori Amos, Kyp Malone Cover Sinéad O’Connor
Yesterday brought the terrible news that Sinéad O’Connor was dead at the age of 56. O’Connor was a singular force in music, and she had the admiration of her peers. As the news of O’Connor’s death circulated, the social-media tributes poured in. Last night, a few musicians paid tribute by singing Sinéad O’Connor’s songs, which […]
Shamir – “The Beginning”
In a couple weeks, Shamir is releasing a new album, Homo Anxietatem. We’ve heard a couple of tracks from it already — “Oversized Sweater,” “Crime,” “Our Song” — and today we’re getting another one, “The Beginning.” “‘The Beginning’ is a song I wrote when I was 14 years old and had never experienced love, yet […]
Alan Palomo Explains Why He’s Not Going By Neon Indian Anymore
In a couple months, Alan Palomo is releasing his first album under his own name, away from the Neon Indian moniker he adopted when he started putting out music in the late ’00s. A few days ago, Palomo celebrated his 35th birthday, and last night posted a message about why he decided to not go […]
The Pretenders – “A Love”
In a little more than a month, new wave hero Chrissy Hynde and her long-running band the Pretenders will release Relentless, their 12th studio album. We’ve already posted the early singles “Let The Sun Come In” and “I Think About You Daily,” the latter of which has a string arrangement from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. (Greenwood […]
Soccer Mommy – “Soak Up The Sun” (Sheryl Crow Cover)
Sheryl Crow has often been cited in Soccer Mommy reviews, and Sophie Allison once covered “If It Makes You Happy” onstage with Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, part of a wave of performances of that same song. Today she adds another Crow tune to the repertoire. This time it’s the cheery 2002 hit “Soak Up […]
DJ Koze – “Candidasa”
The German dance mastermind DJ Koze has been making bright, thoughtful minimal techno for decades. Koze produced every track on Róisín Murphy’s forthcoming album Hit Parade, and he’s also got some new music of his own. Earlier this month, Koze announced a new two-track EP called Wespennest, which was inspired by Koze’s time staying at […]