CHAI released their latest album, Wink, just over a year ago. So far, they’ve spent 2022 popping back up with a steady stream of new tracks in one form or another. Back in January, they unveiled “Whole,” the theme song to a Japanese series called Koi-senu Futari. In March they joined Sondre Lerche on his […]
Alvvays – “Pharmacist”
In late June, semi-elusive indie-pop greats Alvvays teased some new music and announced a fall tour of the United States with openers Slow Pulp. Now, Alvvays have officially announced the long-awaited follow-up to 2017’s dreamy and delightful Antisocialites. Their third studio album is called Blue Rev and is out on Oct. 7 via Polyvinyl. Rejoice! […]
Fotocrime – “Chase The Tear” (Portishead Cover)
Fotocrime, the Louisville post-punk project spearheaded by former Coliseum frontman Ryan Patterson, are at work on Alcoves, a new EP of covers that’s coming out at the end of the month, and they’re dropping a different cover every week. Thus far, Fotocrime have taken on Leonard Cohen’s “Avalanche” and Government Issue’s “Jaded Eyes,” and that […]
Video: Key Glock “Diapers”
Guess who’s back? Key Glock heats up the summer with his new banger, “Diapers”. Over a trap production full of haunting organs, the Memphis rapper stunts to the max while confidently delivering his gritty and cocky bars. The purple-hued video finds the Paper Route Empire member amongst his crew with his lean filled to the […]
Video: Payroll Giovanni “580 Benz”
Fuck you, pay me. Payroll Giovanni’s still on the paper chase in the latest visual off his Back 2 The Ba$ics album. Proceeding from the video of the LP’s title track, the Keefer-directed clip follows the Giovanni bagging work from his office and cruising Detroit in his souped up Benz before making a pit stop […]
Blur Drummer Dave Rowntree Shares Debut Solo Single “London Bridge”
Blur drummer (and occasional lawyer and politician) Dave Rowntree has released his first-ever solo single, “London Bridge.” The track, which was produced by Leo Abrahams, is from an album that’s due out later this year on Cooking Vinyl. “When I lived in London things just started happening when I was near London Bridge, going over […]
Video: G Perico “Legitimate”
Don’t come outside. Fresh off the release of his 111th East EP, G Perico hits the streets in the project’s latest video. In the midst of animated flurries, the L.A. rapper hits his block with his crew, congregates outside a store, and rocks the mic for an intimate crowd.
Video: Jackboy “Pursue My Dreams”
Lawdamercy! Jackboy’s living his best life in Jamaica for his latest music video, “Pursue My Dreams”. Directed by Skinny WhiteBoi, the Haitian rapper recollects the fruits of labor from a lush beach house in Montego Bay to exploring the city and jungles of Negril. The track comes off the heels of his previous releases “Havin […]
Drug Church – “Someday I Suppose” (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Cover) & Microwave – “Santeria” (Sublime Cover)
Next month, Pure Noise Records will release a new compilation called Dead Formats Volume 1, and it’ll feature a bunch of bands on the label’s roster covering songs that were influential to them. Most of those songs come from the punk and emo worlds of the ’90s and ’00s, and a lot of the songs […]
Mitski’s “Love Me More” Gets A Frenetic-Then-Peaceful Clark Remix
The final advance single from Mitski’s Laurel Hell was “Love Me More,” a poppy new wave track that spent its runtime piling on jittery tension, in part through a dizzying array of synth melodies. Today that song gets a remix from Clark, who at first plays up the frenetic elements in the song and then […]