NOTE: We post the newest livestreams in a new post every week. Make sure you're reading the newest edition of our roundup – check the livestream tag HERE for the latest. LAST UPDATED: 1/31 at 12:01 AM ET HERE ARE… Read More
The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright's three-years-in-the-making documentary about avant-garde pop duo Sparks (Ron & Russell Mael), makes its world premiere today as part of the virtual edition of Sundance. The two online screenings are sold-out but Edgar has just shared a… Read More
This week in hip hop, we got new albums from Madlib (& Four Tet), Fredo, Tha God Fahim/Your Old Droog, and more, and we also got new singles from Flee Lord/Stove God Cooks, Brent Faiyaz/Tyler the Creator, Mr. Eazi, JPEGMAFIA,… Read More
We've already gotten a a handful of good new albums this year so far, but this week feels like the moment that 2021 officially kicks in. A slew of heavy hitters were released today, including some albums that already feel… Read More
Before 2004, few people would classify Green Day’s music as particularly sophisticated, intellectual, or thematically mature. Sure, “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” with its poignancy, fragility, and beautiful orchestration, quickly became the introspective acoustic ballad of a generation, and… Read More
Radiohead's Thom Yorke made a fourth Radio Hour mix that he curated for Sonos Radio's Sonos Sound System station. The 76-minute mix includes tracks by Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, LEILA, Mark Pritchard, Zdenek Liska, Yaeji, Luke Abbott, Nationales Polnisches Rundfunksinfonieorchester, Les… Read More
Mike Park, Jeff Rosenstock, and AJJ's Sean Bonnette have teamed up for a new children's music song, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ," which Mike says is a "tribute to Sean's little one." They recorded it with Kevin Higuchi (drums) and Mike Huguenor (guitar), who… Read More
Sometimes it feels good to have one’s head crunched in the morning. Divide and Dissolve do a great job of releasing the demons—not the ones of dreams we’ve just left but the nightmare that begins in the morning living in… Read More
Late last year, Baltimore-raised, Hamburg-based art-pop musician Sophia Kennedy returned after three years with "Orange Tic Tac," which saw the singer exploring a new side of her hard-hitting electronic-influenced sound. There's more where that came from as she's now announced her second album,… Read More
Calico Jim‘s songs take place mostly in rural North Georgia, where James “Pony” Bradshaw has lived for the past 15 years. The location is essential. It helps shape the characters’ temperaments and behaviors. It’s a place where people say things… Read More