Deceit, despite its jokey title, is not a happy album. I recall my father saying to me once that he couldn’t express how it felt to live through the Cold War era. He had no language that might describe to… Read More
NJ's ManDancing will release their sophomore album The Good Sweat on November 20 via Take This To Heart Records (pre-order), and we're now premiering the second single and its video, "Wall Spot." The album was produced and mixed by Gatherers/Funeral… Read More
It's been a hip hop-heavy week on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, whose latest guest was Common performing his new single "Say Peace" alongside the song's two guest vocalists: PJ and Black Thought (the latter of whom is also… Read More
In his shattering memoir Stammered Songbook: A Mother’s Book of Hours, Erwin Mortier charts his family’s struggles to care for his mother (and each other, and themselves) as Alzheimer’s takes her from them. “I can no longer hear the music… Read More
If one wants to write a book about a rock ‘n’ roll band, there are only two ways to do it: give new information that adds to the band’s legacy or chop up old information in a new way that… Read More
When Strange Days released in the US in the fall of 1995, the internet and the idea of digital connectivity was new enough that forward-thinking philosophers and artists had begun speculating on its potential, and in often alarmist ways. The… Read More
If you didn't vote early, or by mail, and are headed to the polls tomorrow (11/3) to cast your vote (and if you haven't already, please do!), a bunch of musicians and bands have put together playlists to accompany you.… Read More
Adulkt Life are a new punk band helmed by music veterans. Vocalist Chris Rowley fulfilled that same role in the early 1990s riot grrl act Huggy Bear. This is his first serious musical venture since that band broke up in… Read More
That Nothing’s new album would be called The Great Dismal is probably the least surprising thing that has happened all year. The title seems almost inevitable. Even before the worldwide pandemic, lockdowns, quarantines, social unrest, and violence, Nothing frontman Domenic… Read More
Solemnity rings through the breathtakingly wordless introduction to “The Call”, the new a cappella single taken from Moira Smiley and VOCO’s upcoming album In Our Voices. Composed by Gregory Fletcher, “The Call” comes with a video poignant in its simplicity… Read More