For many years, going all the way back to the days when he could be broadly if inaccurately categorized under the “witch house” umbrella, the Liverpool musician Matthew Barnes has been making dank and evocative music under his Forest Swords alias. Last year, Barnes came back with Bolted, his first proper Forest Swords album in […]
High On Fire – “Cometh The Storm”
Next week, High On Fire are releasing a new album, Cometh The Storm, their first full-length since 2018’s Electric Messiah. They shared lead single “Burning Down” from it back in February, and today they’re sharing the album’s second single and title track. “‘Cometh the Storm’ was built from a riff I started playing on bass […]
Andrew Bird Trio Shares Two Tracks From New Jazz Standards Album
In the past couple of years, Andrew Bird has teamed up with Rufus Wainwright and Chris Stills for a Neil Young cover and collaborated with Phoebe Bridgers for “I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain.” Today, the indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter announced Sunday Morning Put-On, an album of classic jazz covers releasing through […]
Watch Blur Play “Fool’s Day” Live For The First Time At Coachella Warmup Gig
Before last night, Britpop legends Blur hadn’t played on American soil in nine years. Just a few months ago, Damon Albarn said that he was finished with the Blur reunion, at least for now. That turned out to be a misdirect. This weekend, Blur will play Coachella in very prominent spot. On Saturday, they’ll play […]
Watch Vampire Weekend Join Goose For 30+ Minute “Cape Cod” Jam In New York
Since entering jam band-adjacent territory with Father Of The Bride, Vampire Weekend have kept up a relationship with the modern-day jam band Goose. They got them to cover “2021” back in 2021, and that cover and a version of “Big Blue” have occasionally popped up in Goose’s sets over the past couple of years. Last […]
A French Beach Revealed A 230-Year-Old Mystery Riddle
Beachgoers in Brittany, France, discovered something extraordinary and quite unusual. A boulder revealed by low tide had 20 lines of engravings in multiple languages. Historians struggled to decipher it until 2019 when they turned the riddle into a competition. Learn the secrets behind the mystifying Plougastel-Daoulas boulder. A Mystery In The Small Town Of Plougastel-Daoulas […]
The Most Dangerous Roads From Around The World That Are More Terrifying Than Any Roller Coaster
Are you up for taking the ultimate road trip? For plenty of years, roads have provided people an efficient way to travel. However, that’s not always the case since some roads are heavily traveled and worn down dramatically. Others are remote, winding, or extremely narrow that make them almost impossible to drive down. Whatever the […]
How One Hermit Survived Almost 30 Years In The Woods
Imagine you own a vacation home in rural Maine. You may have heard legends of a mythical creature that lurks in the shadows and breaks into people’s homes. Suddenly, you begin to notice there is food missing from your pantry. Then, some of your clothes are gone. Although there is no proof of a break-in, […]
These Are Some Of The Strongest Militaries In The World
While an all-out battle may be the only way to truly determine which country has the strongest military, hopefully, we’ll never have to find out. If there isn’t a real battle to judge, how does someone determine who has the most powerful military in the world? Is it the number of soldiers in a country’s […]
GIFT – “Wish Me Away”
In 2022, the NYC band GIFT released their debut album Momentary Presence, a set of shimmery and psychedelic songs that sometimes raced ahead with the propulsive post-punk/krautrock momentum of bands like DIIV. Today they announced that they’ve signed to Captured Tracks for the next one. We don’t have new album details yet, but new single […]