All-star team-up alert! Or at least they’re stars if you have the good taste and decency to recognize them as such. Two prolific experimental musicians, American guitarist Bill Orcutt and Guatemalan cellist/vocalist Mabe Fratti, have joined forces for a new album called Almost Waking. That’s cool. That’s very cool. The album is coming in May, […]
Broken Social Scene – “Hey Amanda”
Broken Social Scene made a big announcement last month: This spring they are releasing their first album in nine years, Remember The Humans, and this summer they’re heading out on tour with fellow Canadian indie rock legends Metric and Stars. Today, following the release of lead single “Not Around Anymore,” we’re hearing another track from […]
Maria Taylor – “Sorry I Was Yours” (Feat. Conor Oberst)
Maria Taylor and Conor Oberst way, way back together. Taylor is one half of Azure Ray, and that duo’s story is deeply intertwined with Oberst’s history with Bright Eyes. Bright Eyes took Azure Ray on tour in the early ’00s, and Taylor became a touring member of Oberst’s band and contributed to a bunch of […]
Download Chuquimamani-Condori’s String-Laden Edit Of Lainey Wilson’s “4x4xU”
2025 was the year of Chuquimamani-Condori, and not just because they teamed with their brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton for a phenomenal debut album as Los Thuthanaka. The artist also known as DJ E also showed out on Edits, which applied some of that reality-altering magic to a bunch of existing hits. There were some pop-country […]
Watch Harry Styles Cover Tears For Fears In The BBC Live Lounge
On Friday, big-deal pop star Harry Styles released his long-awaited new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. The world was really hoping that record would be more interesting than it is. Nevertheless! Styles is in full promo-blitz mode right now. He performed at the BRITs. He played a Manchester show that streamed live on […]
New Shane MacGowan Tribute Album Features Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Jesus And Mary Chain, & More
In late 2023, the music world was shaken by the death of the Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. Now, Bruce Springsteen, the Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream, and more are teaming up for a tribute album called 20th Century Paddy – The Songs Of Shane MacGowan, out in November. The Boss’ cover of the 1990 […]
Lauren Auder – “no outline”
In January, Lauren Auder announced her new, evocatively titled album Whole World As Vigil. The London-based singer-songwriter and producer shared the super catchy “praxis,” which followed October’s “yes.” Now she’s back with the sprawling, revelatory “no outline.” “‘no outline’ is the most literal track on the record in some regards, when going through a major breakup […]
Stream Liv.e & Karriem Riggins’ Debut Album As GENA The Pleasure Is Yours
Back in December, we learned the Dallas psychedelic soul singer/rapper/producer Liv.e was teaming up with veteran jazz drummer and hip-hop producer Karriem Riggins for an album under the name GENA. It’s an acyonym standing for God Energy, Naturally Amazing and also a reference to Gina from Martin, all of which should help you triangulate where […]
Frozen Soul Announce New Album No Place Of Warmth: Hear The Title Track Feat. Gerard Way
Frozen Soul have announced their third album, No Place Of Warmth. The followup to 2023’s Glacial Domination arrives in May, and today the Dallas death metal outfit is unleashing the title track featuring My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. Vocalist Chad Green says “No Place Of Warmth” is “about life at its coldest and the choice […]
Yeat & EsDeeKid Made A Bad Song And Shot The Video At Drake’s Mansion
Is the EsDeeKid thing already over? I hope it’s not. If it was, it was fun while it lasted. Last year, the masked Liverpool rapper EsDeeKid emerged out of the UK underground with a hard, energetic style. He rapped in incredibly short bursts over blown-out, psychedelic lo-fi beats, and he leaned hard into his accent. […]