“Most albums, i make an playlist as a reference for production, drum sounds, etc,” says Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, adding, self-deprecatingly, “i send it round the band, but i’m not sure they’ve ever listened.” He’s made one for… Read More
Beloved New Zealand band Crowded House have announced their first new album since 2007’s Time on Earth. It’s called Dreamers Are Waiting and will be out June 4 via BMG. The band, which includes founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour… Read More
The last we heard from MAN ON MAN, Roddy Bottum‘s (Faith No More, Imperial Teen, CRICKETS) duo with his partner Joey Halman, they had just had their video for first single “DADDY” restored to YouTube after it was wrongly removed… Read More
After being postponed multiple times because of COVID, Punk Rock Bowling plans to return in 2021, and they've announced a new date and initial lineup. Instead of their usual Memorial Day Weekend dates, they, like many festivals, have shifted to… Read More
Wild Pink's new record, A Billion Little Lights, is out this Friday, February 19, via Royal Mountain Records. We've already heard a few singles, including "The Shining But Tropical," "You Can Have It Back," and "Oversharers Anonymous," and now the… Read More
As arguably the most beloved, most popular, most influential band of all time, The Beatles are probably the most covered pop artist of the last 50 years. Everybody’s done it, with covers becoming hits themselves (Jock Cocker, Earth, Wind & Fire)… Read More
Since punk first flirted with country music—and vice versa—in the late 1970s, a tsunami of terminology has descended to capture this most curious of hybrids. Cowpunk, country punk, alternative (or alt.) country, Americana, no depression, insurgent country, twangcore, honky skronk,… Read More
Listening to Joshua Chuquimia Crampton is like watching a guitarist perform with a thought bubble over their head. We’re aware of his physical motions, his hand’s motion on the instrument’s strings, the fall of his feet on the pedals. But… Read More
“…It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo. It is humiliating because it reduces a politics of liberation to a… Read More
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More