Sturgill Simpson has surprise-released a new double album, Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions. As the title implies, it's a bluegrass record and he made it at Nashville's famed Butcher Shoppe studios with ace session players ("bona… Read More
Machines don’t care. Self-driving cars, data-harvesting algorithms, Boston Dynamics’ hideous quadrupeds—all these things unnerve us in part because we know that they can’t be trusted. They are indifferent to us by design. Autechre have long played to this unease, channeling… Read More
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More
Nothing slows down Robert Pollard. Guided by Voices have just announced their third album of 2020, Styles We Paid For, which will be out December 11 via Rockathon Records. It's the band's 31st album overall. Bob and the rest of the… Read More
More than a few of us, these days, have been keeping an unusual, deliberate focus on our memories as they form: which ones we’d keep, which ones we’d prefer to destroy, whether any were worth keeping at all, and how… Read More
Considering its rhythmic complexities and instrumental demands, at first glance funk music would appear to make for an unlikely partner for punk rock. Add its focus on the bass and drums, its mostly mid-to-slow tempos, and its African-American roots, and… Read More
David Byrne has been doing hand-drawn illustrations, "dingbats," for his Reasons to be Cheerful online mag since its launch in 2018, including, more recently, its We Are Not Divided multimedia project. Speaking to The Guardian, Byrne said that drawing took… Read More
Organizers of that "luxury" Chainsmokers show in the Hamptons in July, where attendees were less-than-socially-distant, have been fined $20,000 for allowing it to happen the way that it did. NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday, "Following an investigation into the… Read More
The Where's The Band? tour, which finds punk and emo vocalists doing solo acoustic sets without their bands, will once again present a livestream, this time with Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife, I Am The Avalanche), Anthony Raneri (Bayside), and Ryan… Read More
San Diego-based Kimm Rogers offers a new single with animated video for the track, “Lie”. Produced by Julian Coryell (guitarist with Alanis Morissette), the track arrives in the midst of one a politically charged moment in time. It’s a no-holds-barred… Read More