Radiohead are auctioning off a piece of music video memorabilia for charity. Thom Yorke's iconic bowler hat, worn while dancing his way through the "Lotus Flower" video, is for sale on eBay. The inside has been signed, and proceeds to… Read More
The situation of pianist Joe Castro seems like it came out of one of those low-budget black and white film noir movies about jazz musicians during the mid-20th century. It’s kind of a twist on the Pal Joey plot, the… Read More
Few musicians have succeeded in manipulating and shaping atmosphere as well as Coil. The duo founded by musical (and life) partners John Balance and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson in 1982 produced 18 astonishingly innovative studio albums (plus dozens of singles, EPs,… Read More
The BBC has announced that flagship radio station Radio 1 will not play the original version of The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" this holiday season. Instead, they'll be playing a censored version, with alternate lyrics sung by the late… Read More
The annual NYC festival globalFEST — which brings all different kinds of music from all over the world to NYC every January — is going virtual for 2021 and partnering with NPR's Tiny Desk to do so. It goes down… Read More
15. “Face Up” – Low-Life (1985) Bernard Sumner has claimed he never quite grew comfortable in the role of frontman, and nowhere is that uneasiness more gloriously apparent than “Face Up”. No, Sumner’s voice is nowhere near as distinctive or intuitively strong… Read More
“Don’t underestimate the making of life / The planet has a funny way of stopping a fight.” Marina, the Artist Formerly Known as Marina + The Diamonds, has returned to the mess that’s America (well, and much of the rest… Read More
To quote a lyric on this album: this is definitely not a joke. Canned mountain water brand Liquid Death has released its second album of 2020, created by a genuinely amazing cast of punk musicians, and featuring lyrics made up… Read More
Yo La Tengo are full of surprises, aren’t they? Hot on the heels of summer’s We Have Amnesia Sometimes EP, which consisted of five ambient instrumental pieces, recorded on one microphone while adhering to New Jersey’s social distancing regulations, we… Read More
If you’ve ever had the experience where an artist’s statement ends up being more tantalizing than the work it describes, Tristan Perich’s Drift Multiply flips the script on that experience. In this case, the music on Drift Multiply outshines the… Read More