Between 2003 and 2012, experimental rockers The Mars Volta released six studio albums and raised a rabid fan base. Those loyal listeners were crushed when the band broke up after a falling out between founding members Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Finally, after a ten-year wait, and a few years of teasing that something new […]
Alex G – “Runner”
Alex G has announced a new album, God Save The Animals, the proper follow-up to 2019’s House Of Sugar, though a couple months ago he released his debut film score for We’re All Going To The World’s Fair. The album will be out in September, and while Alex Giannascoli wrote the songs at home per […]
Zacari – “Bliss” (Feat. Isaiah Rashad)
The R&B singer Zacari has been a longtime staple of TDE Records, and he’s just released a new collaboration with another TDE standby. Isaiah Rashad has been having an eventful year; back in April, he opened his Coachella set by acknowledging his sex-tape leak for the first time. Rashad’s appearance on Zacari’s new single “Bliss” […]
Gulch – “Monkey Gone To Heaven” (Pixies Cover)
Santa Cruz hardcore destroyers Gulch had a run of a couple of years when they were probably the most exciting band in the genre, and now they’re quitting while they’re ahead. Right now, Gulch are in the midst of playing their final run of shows, which will include a stop at LA’s Sound & Fury […]
The Mars Volta – “Blacklight Shine”
Last year, the long-dormant Mars Volta seemed to be up to something. Socials teased something new, which turned out to be the career-spanning boxset La Realidad De Los Sueños. That was a limited release, but we also got a stream of unreleased material from their 2003 debut De-Loused In The Comatorium. After all that, things […]
Secret Machines – “Day 21” & “Dreaming Of Dreaming (Mavrogeorgis And Sclavunos Version)”
Secret Machines returned in 2020 with Awake In The Brain Chamber, their first album in a dozen years and the first since the death of founding member Benjamin Curtis. Curtis worked on the comeback LP despite leaving Secret Machines to focus on his other band School Of Seven Bells in 2007. Now remaining members Brandon […]
Stella Donnelly – “Flood”
Last month, Stella Donnelly announced her sophomore album Flood. So far we’ve heard lead single “Lungs,” and today she’s back with the title track. “This song feels like a sad little adventure,” Donnelly said in a statement. “I wrote it in the dark depths of a Melbourne winter lockdown where it had been raining for […]
Built To Spill – “Fool’s Gold”
A couple months ago, Built To Spill announced their first new album in seven years, When The Wind Forgets Your Name, the follow-up to 2015’s Untethered Moon and their first for Sub Pop after 20 years on Warner Records. So far, we’ve heard two tracks from it — “Gonna Lose” and “Understood” — and today […]
Weezer Release SZNZ: Summer EP, Announce Broadway Residency
Weezer are spending 2022 rolling out a four-part EP project called SZNZ. Each EP is tied to one of the seasons, and each one is set to drop on the corresponding solstice. So far we’ve received Spring, and Summer has now arrived on the occasion of the summer solstice. But Weezer have also returned with […]
Beyonce “Break My Soul”
You can’t break Bey’s soul. Beyonce makes her official return with “Break My Soul”, the first single off upcoming seventh album, Act 1: Renaissance, due July 29. Over a house beat by Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, and Beyonce, the Queen Bey takes it to the dance floor with her uplifting and carefree vocals and raps. The […]