Earlier in June, Mountain Man bandmates Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso) and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig (Daughter Of Swords) announced their new joint project as the A’s. On July 15, they’ll release their debut album, Fruit, featuring “yodeling folk songs” aka reimagined lullabies, traditional ballads, and rural standards, plus one original song, “When I Die.” We’ve already heard […]
Dungen – “Nattens sista strimma ljus”
It’s been six years since we heard from Swedish psych-rockers Dungen, who released their last project, Häxan (a score for the 1926 animated film The Adventures Of Prince Achmed) in 2016. Prior to that, they released a 2015 LP, Allas Sak. Now, Dungen have announced their latest album, En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig […]
Danny Elfman & Iggy Pop – “Kick Me”
In June of last year, celebrated film score composer and former Oingo Boingo member Danny Elfman released his second-ever studio album, Big Mess. Since then, he’s performed two Coachella 2022 sets (Danny Elfman: From Boingo to Batman to Big Mess and Beyond!) and scored Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Now, Elfman is […]
Veruca Salt’s Louise Post Shares Previously Unreleased ’97-’98 Demos
Louise Post of Veruca Salt is prepping a new solo album for release in 2023, but first she’s revealing some much older recordings. After teasing its release last week on Instagram Live, Post has unveiled a six-song collection from her archives titled But I Love You Without Mascara (Demos ’97-’98). As per the title, the […]
Sonagi – “Attachment Theory”
Next month, Sonagi — the Philadelphia band led by Closer’s Ryann Slauson — will release their debut album Precedent. They shared “Ambivalence” from it already, and today they’re putting out another single, “Attachment Theory,” which is queasy and intense and whose central refrain of “report to the mess” is lifted from the film Alien. “The […]
PinkPantheress & GoldLink Remix Drake’s “Massive”
A couple of weeks ago, Drake released his surprise album Honestly, Nevermind, an unexpected dive into house and club music sounds. In the immediate wake of that album’s release, a lot of people wondered what had inspired this stylistic left turn. I saw some people bringing up the name of PinkPantheress, the young British artist […]
PHONY – “Kaleidoscope” (Feat. Petey)
Next month, Neil Berthier is releasing a new album as PHONY, AT SOME POINT YOU STOP. The former Donovan Wolfington leader and current Joyce Manor touring guitarist shared “Summer’s Cold” from it a few weeks ago, and today he’s back with “KALEIDOSCOPE,” an ominous ballad that’s also a collaboration with TikTok star Petey. “This song […]
The Big Pink – “Love Spins On Its Axis”
In the late ’00s and early ’10s, British duo the Big Pink released two albums of blown-out, synth-heavy shoegaze, and then they more or less disappeared completely, returning only for the 2015 single “Hightimes” and the 2016 EP Empire Underground. Earlier this year, the Big Pink — now made up of founding member Robbie Furze, […]
Steve Lacy – “Bad Habit”
Back when he was still a teenager, the psychedelic soul prodigy Steve Lacy was playing in the Internet and collaborating with Kendrick Lamar. A couple of weeks ago, Lacy released his new single “Mercury,” his first new solo music in three years. As it turns out, that was the first taste of a new album. […]
Momma – “Motorbike”
Both members of the Brooklyn alt-rock duo just graduated college, and they’re now getting ready to release their new LP Household Name on Friday. Thus far, Momma have already shared a bunch of the songs that’ll appear on the LP: “Medicine,” “Rockstar,” “Speeding 72,” “Lucky.” Now, with the album release looming, they’ve hit us with […]