The Toronto collective Respire have announced a new album, Hiraeth, their first since 2020’s Black Line, which landed on our best hardcore albums from that year. “The album serves as a tribute to those who have uprooted their lives and their families in search of hope and a better future,” the band shared in a […]
Watch Tems Perform An Ultra-Smooth Medley On Fallon
Nigerian superstar Tems has been a major force in global pop music for the past few years, and she’d finally getting ready to release her much-anticipated debut album Born In The Wild and head out on a global headlining tour. Last night, Tems popped up on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show to sing a couple of […]
EMF Announce First US Shows In 32 Years
British rave-rockers EMF are playing shows in the US for the first time since 1992? Well, that’s just… I mean, it’s… implausible? Wait, no, that’s not the word. EMF’s return to America is… unthinkable? Still not quite right. Preposterous? Outlandish? Inconceivable? None of these words quite get across what I’m trying to say here. This […]
Nathan Bowles Trio – “The Ternions”
The esteemed and accomplished folk musician Nathan Bowles has a new album on the way. Actually, it’s by the Nathan Bowles Trio, which puts Bowles on his customary banjo flanked by double-bassist Casey Toll (known for his work with Jake Xerxes Fussell and Mount Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry of CAVE. The LP, titled Are […]
Watch Jewel Join MUNA For “Silk Chiffon” At The LA LGBT Center Gala
Are we on the brink of a Jewel renaissance? Last month, Olivia Rodrigo welcomed the ’90s folk-pop star to the stage at Madison Square Garden, and the two of them sang “You Were Meant For Me” together. On Saturday night, Jewel also presented MUNA with an award at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s annual Center […]
Hear Hana Stretton’s Transcendent Soon, Reissued Today By Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum
Sometime after the British-Australian singer-songwriter Hana Stretton released her album Soon last year, she was booked to open for Mount Eerie in Melbourne. When Phil Elverum saw who was playing the show, he decided to check out Stretton’s album and was gobsmacked by what he heard. The result: Elverum’s record label P.W. Elverum & Sun […]
Laughing – “Will She Ever Be A Friend Of Mine”
Last month the Montréal power-pop band Laughing shared “Bruised,” an early single from their new album Because It’s True. They’ve got another teaser track out today. “Will She Ever Be A Friend Of Mine” is three minutes of pure Byrds-y bliss by way of Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, and the Lemonheads. Let the jangly riffs […]
LA Laura Paris Levels Up With The Fierce Electro Anthem “Game Over”
LA Laura Paris releases a new single, “Game Over.” The electro-pop anthem weaves together pounding French-inspired beats and hot, neon aesthetics while delivering not a bleak presentation but a vibrant one when it comes to matters of self-worth and empowerment. In “Game Over,” LA Laura Paris reconsiders toxic relations and outdated games, symbolized by a […]
The The Announce First New Album In Nearly 25 Years
The The, Matt Johnson’s longstanding post-punk and new wave band, has not released a new studio album since 2000’s NakedSelf, opting instead to compose a new movie score every few years. But the band — which has rotated through many members over the year, including Johnny Marr and Gail Ann Dorsey — is back in […]
Chicago Punk Band Sludgeworth Release First New Music In Over 30 Years
When the Chicago punk band Sludgeworth started in 1989, they were a Screeching Weasel side project. At the time, Sludgeworth singer Dan Schafer played bass and guitar in Screeching Weasel, and drummer Brian McQuaid was also in both bands. (Back then, Dan Schafer was known as Dan Vapid, and Brian McQuaid was Brian Vermin.) Pretty […]