Veteran party throwers Making Time will celebrate their 20th-anniversary with a weekend-long streaming event from October 2-4, featuring Hot Chip, John Talabot and more. As holograms. More on that in a minute. Pre-pandemic, Making Time founder Dave P (Dave Pianka) – who began the… Read More
Not only did Jeff Rosenstock release the excellent new album NO DREAM on Polyvinyl this year, but he's also stayed busy with a lot of other things, including cool livestreams, contributing cool covers to cool compilations, taking part in Polyvinyl's… Read More
Are Britpoppers okay? Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown recently blasted mask-wearing on Twitter, a stance he doubled down on after receiving criticism, and now Noel Gallagher has spoken out against face masks, too. As Stereogum points out, during a… Read More
Stephen Malkmus has shared a new song, "Juliefuckingette." While recorded in the same sessions as this year's folky, excellent Traditional Techniques, the song is a little more the kind of poppy indie rock number you associate with Malkmus, in addition to… Read More
Kylie Minogue is preparing to Disco down (REFERENCE) once again. Following the release of her wistful, socially distanced “Say Something,” our Mighty Aphrodite made a surprise phone call into Andy Cohen Live on Sirius XM on Monday (September 14), where… Read More
Halfway through Angel Deradoorian’s Find the Sun comes a loose, minimal drum-and-flute jam that goes on for just over nine minutes. Titled “The Illuminator”, it stumbles along an unpaved back road. It dribbles along as if it has all day.… Read More
Growing up, I knew Pluto as “The Ninth Planet”. It was smaller than the planets, erratic in its movements and its elliptical path. It was supposedly distant and cold. When scientists demoted Pluto to “dwarf planet” status, the change suggested… Read More
The title of Vigdis Hjorth’s new novel, Long Live the Post Horn!, is taken (exclamation point and all) from Soren Kierkegaard’s work, Repetition, in which the 19th century Danish philosopher cites the post horn (a cross between the French horn… Read More
Australian alt-pop singer-songwriter, merci, mercy is only 19 years old, but she’s already creating pop anthems like “Fall Apart” that possess emotional honesty and a worldliness so rare in such young artists. merci, mercy spent part of her teenage years… Read More
Earlier today we posted that New Order announced a new line of Adidas Spezial streetwear, and now their old Factory Records labelmates, Happy Mondays, have announced a line of shirts, sweatshirts and jackets via Palace Skateboards. Yes, they do appear to… Read More