New Grand Jury signees TOLEDO have been sharing a flurry of singles from their forthcoming album How It Ends. The pillowcore duo of Dan Álvarez de Toledo and Jordan Dunn-Pilz, lifelong friends from Massachusetts, have already given us “L-Train” plus “Climber” and “Leopard Skin.” All of those songs were magnificently pretty, and so are the […]
Guitars Almost More Iconic Than Their Rock Icon
It’s not just musicians that shaped rock and roll history — so did their guitars. These iconic axes are almost as important as an extra band member and lent their unique sound and look to some of rock’s most talented icons. Randy Rhoads’ Polka Dot V We’re not saying the Polka Dot V is the […]
The Beths – “Knees Deep”
Next month, New Zealand power-pop greats the Beths will follow their 2020 LP Jump Rope Gazers with their new album Expert In A Dying Field. We’ve already posted the record’s title track and “Silence Is Golden,” both of which rule. Today, the Beths have shared another new song, and they’ve also unveiled a whole bunch […]
Lande Hekt – “Backstreet Snow”
Next month, Muncie Girls’ Lande Hekt is releasing her sophomore album, House Without A View, her follow-up to last year’s Going To Hell. She announced it alongside “Gay Space Cadets,” and today she’s back with another new track, “Backstreet Snow.” “I’m not someone who works at lightning speed/ I’m not even someone who knows what […]
Martha – “Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?” (Feat. The Futureheads’ Ross Millard)
Back in May, the scrappily melodic UK punks Martha released a new song called “Please Don’t Take Me Back.” As it turns out, that was the title track from Martha’s new album, which is dropping at the end of October. Along with the album announcement today, they’ve released another new track. “Baby, Does Your Heart […]
Indigo Sparke – “Blue”
Last month, Australian folk musician Indigo Sparke announced her sophomore album, Hysteria, which was produced by Aaron Dessner. She’s shared lead single “Pressure In My Chest” from it so far, and today Sparke is back with the album’s second single, “Blue,” which spills out a bunch of worries and anxieties over a simmering five minutes. […]
No Devotion – “Repeaters”
Back in 2014, Geoff Rickly, leader of New Jersey arena-screamo greats Thursday, announced that he’d formed a new band called No Devotion. The bands’ other members had all been in Lostprophets, the Welsh nü metal band whose singer Ian Watkins had been sent to prison after the world found out that he was maybe the […]
Matthew E. White Shares Surprise EP Feat. Lonnie Holley & Accompanying Hampton Boyer Short Film
Richmond OG and Spacebomb Records founder Matthew E. White has surprise-released a new EP featuring fellow Virginian Lonnie Holley called Only In America. It provides the soundtrack to Hampton Boyer’s short film of the same name which chronicles US-based police brutality, white supremacy, and systemic racism. White and Holley previously worked together on last year’s […]
Teen Suicide – “i will always be in love you (final)” & “new strategies for telemarketing through precognitive dreams”
Next week, Sam Ray is releasing his first new album under the Teen Suicide name in six years. We’ve already heard a handful of tracks from honeybee table at the butterfly feast — “coyote (2015-2021),” “get high, breathe underwater (#3),” and “death wish” — and today he’s back with two more, “i will always be […]
Deer Scout – “Suspended In Gaffa” (Kate Bush Cover)
While “Running Up That Hill” has been getting all the attention recently, Kate Bush of course has a whole lot of other classic songs in her wheelhouse. Today, Dena Miller — the songwriter behind the project Deer Scout, who released her debut album Woodpecker earlier this year — has covered one of them, offering up […]