In the sprawling rainforest of electronica that opens up the album, Aalok Bala (short for Balachandran) finds something definitively human: connection. The LA-based Chilean artist takes on many roles throughout her second EP — the congregant chanting from their pew,… Read More
Singer, songwriter and outlaw country vet Jerry Jeff Walker has died after a long battle with throat cancer and other health problems. He was 78. Born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, NY, he spent time in Florida and New Orleans before… Read More
It's been a huge week for new music across all genres, and metal and hardcore were no exception. I wrote about the new Pallbearer, Undeath, and Chamber albums in Notable Releases, and you can head to Invisible Oranges for more… Read More
Gorillaz released their star-studded new album, Song Machine, Season One – Strange Timez, today (10/23), and one of the songs, or "episodes," we were most looking forward to hearing that wasn't released early as a single was "Chalk Tablet Towers,"… Read More
New York's Mindforce continue to establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with. Their 2019 EP Swingin Swords, Choppin Lords is a ripper, and now they're back with another killer new song, "Reign Of Terror." Falling somewhere between thrash,… Read More
Ariʸᵘʰna Grande is finally back, and filling some new “positions.” (Mainly Commander-in-chief, but more on that in just a bit.) Granted, the tiny “Touch It” vocalist hasn’t been gone all that long: thank u, next came out a year ago,… Read More
A few years ago, Kevin Morby bought a house. It didn’t come out of nowhere. Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox had handed down some wisdom he’d received from Kim Gordon: the best thing a working musician could do for themselves was own… Read More
The first sound you hear on Waylon Payne’s new album, Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me, is a young boy enthusiastically proclaiming, “OK, ready! 14, 22, 89, go!” That is followed by a single guitar chord,… Read More
Laura Veirs’ My Echo sounds like it was written and recorded during the recent pandemic because of its claustrophobic themes of confinement and disintegration. But that’s not true, according to Veirs in the Bandcamp album description. Instead, she was restricted… Read More
The Sonder Bombs recently released "What Are Friends For?" (which we named one of the best punk songs of September), and now they've officially announced their new album, Clothbound, due January 29 via Take This To Heart Records (US) and… Read More