LoneLady (aka Julia Campbell) has announced her third album, Former Things, which will be released June 25 via Warp. It’s been six years since her last, Hinterland, and since then LoneLady left her hometown of Manchester for London, and made the… Read More
Half Waif‘s new album, Mythopoetics, is due out July 9 via ANTI-, and she’s now announced a North American tour supporting it. She’ll hit the road in November, stopping in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Washington DC, NYC,… Read More
Vouna is the project of Yianna Bekris (also of Vradiazei, Eigenlicht, and Sadhaka), and she’s set to follow her 2018 self-titled debut album with Atropos on July 16 via Profound Lore (pre-order). The new album is said to be more… Read More
Even more than their remarkably fresh and in-touch new music, which flirts with EDM and high BPMs while never being too “How do you do, fellow kids?”, the Pet Shop Boys’ most interesting activity across the last half-decade is the… Read More
This week in heavy music, I highly recommend the new SeeYouSpaceCowboy/If I Die First split and Hundreds of AU LP, both of which you can read about in Notable Releases, and you can head to Invisible Oranges’ Upcoming Metal Releases… Read More
After announcing that My Chemical Romance would headline their 2022 edition instead of 2021, and that 2021 would still be moving forward, Riot Fest has announced an updated lineup for this year’s edition, happening September 16-19, 2021 in Douglas Park… Read More
Between new (good!) Useless ID and Jughead’s Revenge songs, and promising new bands like Oh The Humanity!, ’90s-style skate punk is just in the air lately, and here’s a great new album from one of the genre’s most prolific, consistent… Read More
Ride‘s Andy Bell released the See My Friends EP today, which is the second in his Ever Decreasing Circles series he’s releasing this year. The four-track 10″ includes both songs from his limited edition debut single (“Plastic Bag” and “The… Read More
It’s a good week in Indie Basement with four records that are are really, really good: Paul Weller‘s Fat Pop Vol 1; Juliana Hatfield‘s Blood, The Chills‘ Scatterbrain, and Matt Berry‘s The Blue Elephant. I may be diluting the brand… Read More
Leon Bridges has announced his third album, Gold-Diggers Sound, due July 23 via Columbia (pre-order). It was produced by Ricky Reed and Nate Mercereau and it features Leon’s 2020 single “Sweeter” (ft. Terrace Martin), as well as the just-released “Motorbike,”… Read More