The Notwist are back with their first new music in six years. The band say an album is in the works, but first is a three-song 10" EP, Ship, which will be out August 20 via German label Morr Music.… Read More
“So much for summer love and saying ‘us,’ ’cause you weren’t mine to lose…“ Out of nowhere (well, The Woods), Taylor Swift emerged on Thursday (July 23) to announce the release of her eighth studio album later that night –… Read More
A folktronica artist who pivoted to mainstream pop, Ellie Goulding stumbled upon longevity in the 2010s with one fluke hit after another. Both “Lights” and “Burn” began as bonus tracks from modestly performing albums (2010’s Lights and 2012’s underrated Halcyon,… Read More
We've been asking artists what's been keeping them busy during COVID-19 lockdown, and this time we've got Joe Casey, whose band Protomartyr just released their excellent fifth album, 'Ultimate Success Today'. Like with the year-end lists Joe's done for us in… Read More
If Adam Silvestri channeled elements of Springsteen as Radiator King when he first graced PopMatters with “So Long (Charlie)”, now the NYC Americana artist is looking to 1970s pop-rock this side of Elton John. Centered on a wistful piano progression,… Read More
Klinger: Now here’s a real puzzler of a record for our Counterbalance purposes. Most everything we’ve covered so far has either been an immediate game-changer or has had an impact that’s reached far beyond its initial standing. Television’s 1977 album… Read More
Jarvis Cocker just released Beyond the Pale, his first album with new band JARV IS…, this week. (Read our review.) The album was shaped (and partially recorded) on 2018 / 2019 tours, which featured mostly new, unheard songs, plus a… Read More
Billie Eilish might not know what a Van Halen is, but she does feel the McPheever for the “Black Horse and a Cherry Tree”-crooning Season 5 runner-up of American Idol, which only tells me one thing: she was raised right.… Read More
Instagram took the concept behind Snapchat and made it its own when the service launched Stories in 2016, and now they are taking inspiration from TikTok for another new feature. "Reels," Instagram's new short form video feature, has already been… Read More
Keyboardist Phil Asley — who has performed with Mick Jagger, Kiss, Cher, Debbie Harry, Joe Satriani, Chicago, Foreigner, Billy Idol, Aerosmith, Yoko Ono, and several others — passed away on July 10 at age 65. Cause of death is not… Read More