There's less than a month left in 2020, and the year-end lists are officially pouring in (we've been posting a bunch by artists and other tastemakers, and our own lists are coming soon), but great 2020 albums aren't done coming… Read More
It’s time. Mariah Thee Carey, Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson have arrived in their glittering red and green best, and they’re here to make the yuletide even gayer, dahhhling. After sending the Lambily, Arianators and Little Spotlights (you can’t change… Read More
The music of Gang of Four and guitarist Andy Gill will be celebrated with a new double disc tribute album due out in the spring. The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four, which gets… Read More
Flora Yin-Wong’s Holy Palm is a travel diary in sound, one where temple bells and voice notes replace passport stamps and ticket stubs. The London-born electronic musician sourced its contents from her frequent peregrinations, gathering abstracted rustling and rumbling from… Read More
If the Ramones had grown up on Tangerine Dream and modular synthesis rather than classic rock and bubblegum, they might have produced something like Translate, the first solo album in six years from Norfolk, England producer Luke Abbott. That’s not… Read More
When I saw Juan Felipe Herrera perform his verse in Atlanta a few years back, I was struck by the musicality of his delivery. Herrera, the first Mexican-American Poet Laureate (2015-2017), has a jovial, Zen-like presence that simultaneously calms and… Read More
If you're been enjoying David Lynch's daily weather reports and occasional "What's David Up To?" videos on his YouTube channel, but wished he was working on something slightly longer, it looks like you're in luck. Welcome to Twin Peaks reports… Read More
San Francisco punks Western Addiction ended a 12-year gap between albums with 2017's very good Tremulous and this year, they came back with yet another great new record called Frail Bray (released via Fat Wreck Chords). The record — produced… Read More
It's a short week because of Thanksgiving so I'm gonna keep this short and get right to the music. I highlight seven new albums below and here are some honorable mentions: the surprise AJ Tracey EP (ft. slowthai & more),… Read More
After many years of not doing them, David Lynch reinstated his daily weather reports during the early days of the pandemic, via his David Lynch Theater YouTube channel; he's been doing them ever since. Most days his reports are short… Read More