Dead and Company — featuring Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti — didn’t get to tour in 2020 thanks to the pandemic, but are planning to be out… Read More
Alt-country vets Son Volt have announced a new album. Electro Melodier, their tenth studio album and the follow-up to 2019’s Union, is due out July 30 via Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers. The name comes from two vintage amplifiers from the late… Read More
The David Bowie tribute album Modern Love will be out May 28, and two more tracks from it have been shared: Jeff Parker and The New Breed‘s cover “Soul Love,” and Jonah Mutono‘s cover of “Modern Love.” Both are radically… Read More
Toronto emo/post-hardcore band Growing Fins are releasing a self-titled EP on July 9 via Old Press Records, and it’ll feature their 2020 single “Ogilvie” as well as “…And Then I Hotboxed My Washroom.,” which premieres in this post. “The structure… Read More
As more people get COVID vaccines, tours and festivals are starting to be announced again, while other continue to be rescheduled and postponed. Head here for more COVID-19 related news and check the Tour Dates category for more tour-related news. SPOON “Hey, remember when we used… Read More
Justice‘s Gaspard Augé has shared details of his debut solo album, Escapades, which will be out June 25 via Genesis / Ed Banger Records / Because Music. “I’ve always been obsessed with making larger than life music,” Augé says. “Mostly… Read More
For the first eight years of his recording career, you knew where you were with Burial, and it felt like a predictably desolate place to be. This—as the actually pretty accurate cliché went—was music for London night buses and soggy… Read More
Back in March of 2020, Sleigh Bells announced a tenth anniversary show for their breakthrough debut LP Treats, where they’d play the album, which is still their most-loved, from beginning to end. COVID cancelled the originally scheduled date in May… Read More
The highlight of the recent The Smiths-inspired episode of The Simpsons was undoubtedly “Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You),” the song by fictional band Quilloughby & The Snuffs that really nailed the tone and prose of late-’80s Smiths… Read More
A month ago, Newport Folk Festival announced the dates, July 23-25 and July 26-28, for the “two unique 3-day events of surprise performances, storytelling, and workshops at Fort Adams” they plan to hold this summer in place of a typical… Read More