Last year, the Irish musician Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson — who puts out music under her initials CMAT — released her debut full-length If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, a charming collection of pop-rock songs that garnered the musician a vocal contingent of fans, particularly among the Stereogum commentariat. Today, Thompson has dropped a new […]
Nick Cave Responds To ChatGPT Attempt To “Write A Song In The Style Of Nick Cave”
Nick Cave regularly uses his The Red Hand Files newsletter to sound off on various topics. Most recently, he gave an update on the next Bad Seeds album. Today, he’s offered up some strong thoughts about the artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT after someone sent him the lyrics to a song modeled after his own. “Since […]
James Murphy Talks White Noise‘s “New Body Rhumba” And LCD Soundsystem’s Oscar Chances
LCD Soundsystem have a new song, “New Body Rhumba,” featured in Noah Baumbach’s Netflix adaptation of White Noise. “New Body Rhumba” made the Best Original Song shortlist for this year’s Academy Awards, and James Murphy recently talked to IndieWire about its chances to actually get nominated for an Oscar when the final nominees are revealed […]
Eluvium – “Vibration Consensus Reality (For Spectral Multiband Resonator)” & “Scatterbrains”
Last fall, the Portland composer Matthew Robert Cooper announced a new Eluvium album, (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality). It won’t be out until May, but Cooper is planning on sharing two tracks a month from it until it’s released. First up was the pair of “Escapement” and “Swift Automatons”; today, he’s offered up two more, […]
B. Cool-Aid – “Cnt Go Back (Tell Me)” (Feat. V.C.R., Jimetta Rose, Liv.e, Butcher Brown, & Maurice II)
B. Cool-Aid, the duo made up of Pink Siifu and producer Ahwlee, have announced a new album, Leather Blvd., which will be out on March 31. It’s the pair’s first project together under the name since 2019’s Syrup; two tracks, “COO” and “usedtoo,” came out last year. Today, they’ve shared a new single called “Cnt […]
Band To Watch: The Tubs
In one sense, the Tubs are not a new band. All four members of the London-based Welsh rock group were in Joanna Gruesome, the incendiary noise-pop act that has since splintered into a sprawling network of interconnected projects. But anyone expecting a reprise of Joanna Gruesome’s distortion-blanketed indie should look elsewhere — say, to Ex-Vöid, […]
“Free-Ass Motherfucker” Janelle Monáe Receives Critics Choice Award
Janelle Monáe, who has recently been more focused more on movies than music, received the seventh annual #SeeHer Award at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night. Monáe, who was nominated but did not win in the Best Supporting Actress category for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, talked about identity during their speech. “I’m […]
Kelly Monrow Gets Candid In New Music Video For “Wounds”
Texas-native singer-songwriter Kelly Monrow welcomes the year with a new release. The multi-disciplinary artist opens up her heart and shares an uncut version of herself in the recently shared music video for “Wounds,” which follows other Scars of Venus songs such as “Wake Up,” “Ain’t Mine,” “Jagged Heart” and “The Woman.” “Wounds” is a Southern […]
Westkust Announce Breakup
The Swedish band Westkust have broken up. The group, which shared members with fellow indie-poppers Makthaverskan, released two full-lengths in their decade together, 2015’s Last Forever and 2019’s self-titled album. But they recently shared a post to their Instagram stating that they are no more: “Hello, so its been a while since we gave any […]
Video: Uncle Murda “Rap Up 2022”
Shit crazy! Uncle Murda rings in the new year with the latest installment of his annual Rap Up series. Produced by Great John Music, the Brooklyn rapper carries on tradition by summing up 2022 from Young Thug’s RICO case to Tory Lanez’ guilty verdict, and more. “Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion’s trial’s like a […]