Le Volume Courbe, aka Charlotte Marionneau, will release new EP Fourteen Years this Friday. It's her first record in five years and the first of three EPs she's releasing that will also make up her new album that's due next… Read More
Phoebe Bridgers released her excellent sophomore solo album, Punisher, earlier this year, and now she'll be following it with a new EP, Copycat Killer, due out November 20 via Dead Oceans. Like its name implies, the four songs on Copycat… Read More
Toronto indie rock quartet Kiwi Jr will release new album Cooler Returns on January 22 via Sub Pop. The album contains this year's "Undecided Voters" single and they've just shared Cooler Returns' very catchy title title track and it's video. “No… Read More
Bassist and composer Charles Mingus used to be a figure of controversy for ten different reasons, some political, some personal, and—though this all seems silly in the new century—some musical. Mingus could be difficult with audiences, tough on fellow musicians,… Read More
Not much has changed for Kurt Wagner since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nashville native spent most of his time in the house, anyway — listening to music, tinkering with songs for his long-running band Lambchop, and carrying… Read More
At the start of the century, in the UK at least, Travis were everywhere. Their brand of earnest, plangent indie rock was a soothing balm for the pre/post-millennium morass, which threatened to make airplanes crash from the skies and terminally… Read More
Jahdan Blakkamoore was born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, where he discovered hip hop and embarked on a career fusing the sounds of hip hop with reggae and dancehall. He and producer Andrew "Moon" Bain became two of the… Read More
As with almost all festivals this very pandemic year, the 2020 edition of Iceland Airwaves is going virtual with a special two-day event, "Live From Reykjavik," on November 13 & 14. While Iceland Airwaves has always been an international festival… Read More
LA rapper Drakeo The Ruler was released from prison on Wednesday (11/4) after striking a plea deal, and now he has released his first new song and video since his release. Journalist Jeff Weiss — who had been covering Drakeo's… Read More
Compared to the relatively capacious archival revelations of Can, a band with roughly comparable working practices, the posthumous pickings from This Heat have been cautiously selected and exceedingly sparse. In 1993 a three-song CD emerged – including a 33 1/3… Read More