West Coast rapper 2 Eleven followed up 2020’s Success Is The Best Revenge with a new project, Mastermind, and six of its eight songs feature Freddie Gibbs. It’s not technically billed as a collaborative album with Gibbs, but it may… Read More
It’s a pretty killer edition in Indie Basement with three albums tying for Album of the Week, plus three more things worth checking out: Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden bewitch with a beat as Lost Girls; Quilt‘s Anna Fox Rochinski enchants on… Read More
In tarot, the flame-licked Tower card represents a mercurial period of upheaval and personal transformation. After producer and experimental artist Vegyn moved from London to Los Angeles last fall, the foreboding card became a regular appearance in his deck. The… Read More
Melina Duterte (Jay Som) and Ellen Kempner (Palehound) recently shared the first single from their new joint project Bachelor, “Anything At All.” Now they’ve announced an album as Bachelor, Doomin’ Sun, due out May 28 via Polyvinyl. They made the… Read More
Following the release of their excellent debut album, Schlagenheim (2019), London experimental noise rock group black midi received a massive amount of praise for their abrasive sonic landscapes and seamless genre-morphing. Now, the group are back with Cavalcade that’s due May 28 via Rough… Read More
Evan Greer is releasing Spotify is Surveillance on April 9 via Get Better/Don Giovanni, and following lead single “Back Row” comes new song “The Tyranny of Either/Or.” It’s a dose of power-poppy punk that Evan calls “an angry open letter… Read More
After announcing they’d be moving in June of 2018, Amoeba Hollywood revealed the details of their new location at 6200 Hollywood Blvd in February of 2020, saying that they planned to open “sometime after Labor Day 2020.” COVID delayed that… Read More
The late John Prine‘s weekend-closing set at the 2017 Newport Folk Festival was instantly the stuff of legends, featuring guest appearances from Justin Vernon, Margo Price, Jim James, Roger Waters, Lucius, and Nathaniel Rateliff. That performance is being turned into… Read More
Pre-order Citizen’s new album ‘Life In Your Glass World’ on limited galaxy blue and green swirl vinyl in the BrooklynVegan store. Citizen are always changing things up, and they’re often doing the unexpected. They hit the scene about a decade… Read More
Lana Del Rey just released her very good new album Chemtrails Over the Country Club this past Friday (read our review), and she says she already has another new album, titled Rock Candy Sweet, due out on June 1. Stereogum… Read More