The Atlanta music festival Shaky Knees has revealed its 2026 lineup, and dang, it sure is appealing. The Strokes, Gorillaz, and Twenty One Pilots are lined up to headline. Other performers include Pavement, Geese, Turnstile, LCD Soundsystem, Wu-Tang Clan, Fontaines D.C., Japanese Breakfast, Modest Mouse, the Prodigy, Pierce The Veil, Blood Orange, Jimmy Eat World, […]
Stream British Fingerstyle Master James Blackshaw’s New Album Fractures On The Horizon
The James Blackshaw renaissance continues! In 2016, the British fingerstyle guitar virtuoso pulled the plug on his music career, citing economic concerns. In 2019, he announced his return to music, but not until late 2024 did we get Unraveling In Your Hands, Blackshaw’s first album in nearly a decade. He’s followed that one up much […]
Swapmeet – “I Know!”
Winspear have put out some of our favorite indie rock records of the past couple of years, and now, the label have welcomed their first non-US artist to their roster. Swapmeet — Venus O’Broin (guitar, vocals), Joshua Doherty (bass), Maxwell Elphick (guitar, drums, vocals), and Jack Medlyn (guitar, drums, vocals) — are a young four-piece who […]
Baby Keem Shares Music Video For ‘Birds & The Bees’ — Watch
Fresh off of dropping off his sophomore album Ca$ino, Baby Keem is back this afternoon with a music video for ‘Birds & The Bees’. The reception to the entire album has been strong but this song in particular is one of the cuts from it that has gotten the most praise. The video is directed […]
King Tuff – “Invisible Ink”
King Tuff’s return is imminent. The psychedelic garage rocker Kyle Thomas made his new back-to-basics album MOO shortly after leaving Los Angeles and returning to Vermont, the place where he’s from. He recorded it on the same Tascam 388 that he used to make his 2013 debut King Tuff Was Dead. On the LP’s first […]
Tomahawk Return, Announce First Live Shows In 13 Years
Back in 1999, Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton started the noise-rock supergroup Tomahawk with the Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison, Melvins/Cows bassist Kevin Rutmanis, and John Stanier, the absolute beast of a drummer who’d already been in Helmet and who would later join Battles. Tomahawk have been intermittently active since then, though Rutmanis […]
Longboat Examines Structural Loss on Absentia — And It Feels Uncomfortably Current
There are albums about heartbreak. There are albums about grief. And then there’s Absentia — an album that zooms out. Longboat’s latest release doesn’t frame loss as a private tragedy. Instead, it studies it as a system. Careers collapse. Buildings disappear. Elections shift power. Fortunes evaporate. Identity erodes. Across Absentia, loss isn’t just emotional — […]
Population II Announce New EP Gimmicks: Hear “Magouilleux”
I was mightily impressed by Maintenant Jamais, last year’s album from francophone Montreal psych band Population II. They’re following it up this April with a new EP, Gimmicks. Lead single “Magouilleux” sits in the middle of the five-song tracklist, and it makes for a sprawling centerfold. Powered by bleary keyboards and propulsive bass, the track […]
UK Burger Bar’s Fake Toto Plaque Angers Local Historical Society
Toto members David Paich and Jeff Porcaro wrote “Africa,” the band’s immortal 1982 chart-topper, because Paich had just seen a late-night TV documentary about poverty in Africa and because he was excited to try out the horn sounds that he could make on a new polyphonic keyboard that he’d just bought. Paich and Porcaro had […]
Grace Ives Announces New Album Girlfriend: Hear “Stupid Bitches”
Grace Ives back! It’s been too long. Ives, then a Brooklyn-based DIY pop artist, released a very cool debut album called Janky Star in 2022, and then she went quiet for a few years. Last November, Ives released three excellent songs — “Avalanche,” “Dance With Me,” and “My Mans” — that she recorded with producers […]