Vegas-born, Philly-based art-pop performer Shamir is back with a new single, “Gay Agenda,” which follows last year’s self-titled album and a smattering of one-off tracks (“Lose To Win“) and covers. “Gay Agenda,” which comes with a video directed by Jenny He, was produced alongside Hollow Comet of the band Strange Ranger and is about “radical […]
The Boo Radleys Announce First New Album In 24 Years
In the ’90s, UK band the Boo Radleys flirted with a whole bunch of homegrown musical movements — dream-pop, shoegaze, Britpop — without ever fully joining up with any of them. Instead, the Boo Radleys were a free-floating, vaguely psychedelic alt-rock entity with the freedom to go in any direction they wanted. The band made […]
Black Country, New Road – “Chaos Space Marine”
Pandemic time is all warped, so even though it’s understandable if you can’t remember whether Black Country, New Road’s debut album For The First Time came out this year or sometime long before this year. In fact, it was released Feb. 5 of this year. So when the British art-rock band drops their next album […]
Hear Another Great Track From Meters Guitarist Leo Nocentelli’s Lost ’70s Folk Album
Last month, reissue label Light In The Attic announced that they had uncovered a lost folk album by the Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli, which he recorded in the ’70s but shelved to focus on his main band. After the recordings made their way from New Orleans to a Southern California storage facility over the decades, […]
Cate Le Bon – “Running Away”
Cate Le Bon has been great for a long time, but 2019’s Reward cemented her reputation for greatness. So it is fantastic to learn that Le Bon has a new LP on the way this winter. It’s called Pompeii. Le Bon wrote it mostly on bass and recorded it with co-producer Samur Khouja in an […]
James Blake & Slowthai Team Up For New Version Of “Funeral” & Perform It On Fallon
On Friday, James Blake released his drizzly, downbeat new album Friends That Break Your Heart. The album features appearances from stars like SZA and J.I.D. It does not feature the malevolent and intense UK rapper Slowthai, but Blake and Slowthai did record a version of the Friends That Break Your Heart track “Funeral” together. They […]
Sondre Lerche – “Dead Of The Night”
Norwegian indie-pop lifer Sondre Lerche has shared an epic new song “Dead Of The Night.” Clocking in at just over 10 minutes, it’s an expansive follow-up to his 2021 EP, King of Letting Go, and 2020’s Patience. Lerche shared an equally wide-ranging statement on “Dead of the Night,” which you can read in full below: […]
Video: Stove God Cooks “That’s The Game”
Stove God Cooks is trapping in luxury in his new video. On the Samba Beatz-produced track, the Syracuse rapper experiments his gritty raps with a melodic flow. In the video, he pulls up to a mansion with his stove, cooks coke with his female workers, and performs in the rain by a piano.
Video: Don Toliver Ft. Travis Scott “Flocky Flocky”
Clear the road! Don Toliver’s out here living his best life in his new music video featuring Travis Scott. In the high-octane and grainy clip, the two Cactus Jack rappers document their lively and dare-deviling escapades. Utilizing night vision and the VHS, the Houstonians race one another in their Lamborghinis, fly private jets, smoke out […]
Jeff Tweedy – “C’mon America” & “UR-60 Unsent”
The latest Sub Pop Singles Club 7″ features two new solo tracks from prolific Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. The A-side is “C’mon America,” a wry classic rocker “from an unreleased group of songs with mostly sci-fi lyrics.” The B-side is “UR-60 Unsent,” one of those drowsy, deconstructed Tweedy ballads, billed as “a pitiful tale of […]