20. Monophonics – It’s Only Us [Colemine] The Bay Area’s indelible psychedelic soul, live-show phenomenon, Monophonics have just released their third full-length, It’s Only Us. It combines the raw funk and sheer power of early soul masters with a touch… Read More
To help out artists who couldn't tour (and were losing income) because of the pandemic, Bandcamp has been hosting monthly Bandcamp Fridays on the first Friday of each month where they waive their cut of sales though the site. It ran… Read More
The Ally Coalition, the LGBTQ-equality organization founded by Rachel Antonoff, Jack Antonoff, and other members of Jack's former band fun., are taking their annual benefit Talent Show virtual for 2020. The 7th annual edition of the event streams on Monday,… Read More
Even with no touring, Stefan Babcock managed to stay busy in 2020. PUP released the This Place Sucks Ass EP (which we named one of the best punk albums of the year), did a full-band livestream, and put out a… Read More
Sweden's Viagra Boys will release new album Welfare Jazz on January 8. The album closes with a cover of John Prine's "In Spite Of Ourselves" where frontman Sebastian Murphy duets with Amy Lee from Amyl & The Sniffers who takes… Read More
20. Lee Jones – Down Into Light [Independent] If One Grain saw Jones tinkering with a more subdued approach, Down Into Light takes things a step further. This new LP, his first full-length since Electronic Frank, is lighter, more buoyant,… Read More
Discogs launched 20 years ago (November, 2000) as an online music database, aiming to catalog every record ever released, but has become a very popular marketplace for used and new releases. For example, you can figure out just which pressing… Read More
Composer and electronic artist Pauline Anna Strom has died at age 74. The sad news came via Matt Werth of RVNG, who are set to release Pauline's first new record in three decades in early 2021. Werth referred to Pauline… Read More
Moses Sumney and Little Dragon have just released a collaborative single, "The Other Lover." It's a rework of Little Dragon's "Another Lover" from this year's New Me, Same Us, but with Moses and Yukimi Nagano's distinctive voices intertwining, it takes… Read More
Two of the most consistently great producers of the last 20+ years, Madlib and Four Tet, will release a collaborative album called Sound Ancestors in January via Madlib Invazion. Four Tet writes: A few months ago I completed work on… Read More