Slowdive are having one of the great seconds acts of our time, reforming after 20 years, becoming more popular than they ever were in the ’90s and making two great albums that stand up against their OG shoegaze classics. It… Read More
Aerosmith began their farewell tour at the beginning of the month, and it was scheduled to run through December and into 2024. After postponing shows earlier in the month due to vocal cord damage and bleeding, they’ve now postponed the… Read More
For nearly as long as Animal Collective have been a band, they have reserved some of their best material for follow-up EPs. They may have originated as leftovers, but each stands on its own as a body of work. Isn’t… Read More
Over the past decade, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing veteran indie-rock acts enjoy a surprising surge in streams thanks to prime movie placements, sudden social-media virality, or inexplicable algorithmic voodoo. But the case of Blonde Redhead might be the strangest… Read More
Cleo Sol named herself after the sun. The UK singer is a vocalist for the enigmatic collective SAULT, which makes experimental R&B, funk, and disco-inspired music that speaks to the complexity of the Black experience. Over the past few years,… Read More
Purelink’s debut single might have been a time machine. One track, the B-side’s “Head on a Swivel,” invoked the ’90s drum’n’bass of artists like Photek and Source Direct, in which breakbeats splintered like shards of glass over inky pools of… Read More
Cocteau Twins singer Liz Fraser has one of the most celestial voices in all of pop and now she’s got an actual asteroid named after her. 4AD Records shared the news today, writing: “Yesterday, after 10 years of research, the… Read More
Cheeky Australian dance duo Confidence Man will be returning to North America in December for a few select shows. They’ll play San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto before wrapping up their visit at NYC’s Racket on 12/8. Tickets for… Read More
Epic Games, the video game developer and publisher behind titles including Fortnite and Gears of War, acquired Bandcamp in March of 2022. Epic has now announced, in a letter from founder and CEO Tim Sweeny, that they’re laying off “around… Read More
Depeche Mode have shared the video for “My Favourite Stranger,” one of the highlights from this year’s Memento Mori. Directed by longtime visual collaborator Anton Corbjin, the video follows a mysterious stranger through the woods and into a city before… Read More