“I let the music take me home to the streets where I belong.“ Hey Annie, well…look at you. It’s been 16 years since the Norwegian crooner first burst onto the scene with 2004’s critically hailed Anniemal, chock full of instant… Read More
Paradoxes abound in The Silence, Don DeLillo’s latest novel. Its subject—the end of contemporary life as we know it—is huge. Its size is small, barely over 100 pages. Its premise is high concept: on Super Bowl Sunday, 2022, all technology—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
The late Timothy Leary, the psychologist and writer known for helping to popularize psychedelic drugs during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, for writing The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and for coining… Read More
It's always a good time for metal, but when the weather gets colder, the leaves change color, and Halloween nears, it becomes an even better time for metal, so fortunately there are a lot of cool livestreamed metal concerts on… Read More
Earlier this year, The xx singer/guitarist Romy Madley Croft revealed plans to release her debut solo album. She also did a solo guitar and voice preview of the song "Weightless" on Instagram, but promised that the album would be a… Read More
London band Goat Girl have announced their second album, On All Fours, which will be out January 29 via Rough Trade. The group worked again with producer Dan Carey (Black Midi, Kae Tempest), but where their debut was swaggering indie… Read More
Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge I’m trying not to lose my head It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder How I keep from going under – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”… Read More
Production collective Quakers – aka Katalyst (Ashley Anderson), Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow of Portishead & Beak>), and 7-Stu-7 (Invada Studios engineer Stuart Matthews) — came out of eight-year hibernation earlier this month, dropping a 50-track beat tape via Stones Throw. Now, Quakers have announced their second proper studio album, The Next Wave, which will be… Read More
Deep house great Charles Webster is gearing up to release Decision Time, his first major solo release since 2001's Born On The 24th of July, which is out November 20 and features appearances from Shara Nelson, Ingrid Chavez, Terra Deva,… Read More