Whoever had “Biz Markie Tribute Opening Number” on their 2021 Emmys bingo card, you were the first winner of the night, as Television’s biggest night started the evening with a version of “Just a Friend” featuring LL Cool J, Little… Read More
It’s a very busy week for new music. I highlight seven new albums below, and Bill tackles José González, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Yvette, Mild High Club, E.Vax (Ratatat), Don Broco, Blunt Bangs (ex-Black Kids), and more in Bill’s Indie… Read More
Pre-order our exclusive white/blue splatter vinyl variant of Bad Brains’ ‘Rock For Light.’ We’ve been teaming with Bad Brains and Org Music all year on exclusive vinyl variants of each release in their extensive reissue campaign, and we just launched… Read More
Milwaukee ska-punks Something To Do released their new album Give Me Attention last year, followed by another new single this year, and now they’ve done a ska-punk cover of one of 2020’s most addictive pop songs, Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating.” It’s… Read More
Julien Baker embarked on the fall leg of her North American tour, supporting her 2021 album Little Oblivions (order on vinyl), earlier this month, and on Tuesday night (9/14) the tour hit NYC for her biggest headlining show here yet,… Read More
In the past three years,박혜진 Park Hye Jin has moved from Seoul to Melbourne to London to Los Angeles. Before I Die, her first full-length, which she made entirely during the pandemic, excavates the feelings of isolation and vulnerability triggered… Read More
In his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks samples the following quote from biologist Gerald Edelman: “Every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” For 30 years now,… Read More
David Roback, of Mazzy Star, Opal and Rain Parade, passed away from cancer in 2020. Now over 150 pieces of music gear that he used, including guitars, amps, microphones, headphones, pedals, synthesizers, sitars, a drum machine, a 54-piece harpsichord, a… Read More
Lana Del Rey previously said that her second album of 2021, Blue Banisters, would be out on July 4, which came and went, and now she has given the album a new release date of October 22 via Polydor/Interscope and… Read More
Montana country singer Riddy Arman‘s self-titled debut album comes out this Friday (9/10) via La Honda Records and Thirty Tigers (pre-order), and we’re premiering a full stream of the LP ahead of its release. “This album is a story, and… Read More