Happy October everybody! After the new release overload that was last week, this week is a little dry, at least for things I haven’t already covered. But there’s always something to write about. This week: Death Valley Girls‘ “space-gospel record”;… Read More
If OK Computer was Sgt. Peppers, Kid A and Amnesiac were Radiohead’s The White Album. The works are as wonderfully schizophrenic as the Beatles self-titled classic. When compared to the art-rock revelation of The Bends (arguably their Revolver) and the… Read More
It's been a very busy year for Vinnie Caruana. He already released a new Constant Elevation EP and a new Peace'd Out album, plus he's done a couple solo livestreams, and now he's announced the first I Am The Avalanche… Read More
Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace has surprise-released a new solo album — her first for Polyvinyl — called Stay Alive. Some background: Laura Jane Grace wasn’t planning on making a solo record this year. In fact, she was planning on… Read More
Markov Soroka's (of Aureole, Drown, Krukh, Tchornobog, and more) father sadly suffered a severe heart attack earlier this year, and he survived but he was left without a job and insurance and he faces at least $66,000 in medical bills.… Read More
Michelle Zauner, aka Japanese Breakfast, penned an essay, "Crying in H Mart," about family, food, and grief for The New Yorker in 2018; that became the basis for a memoir of the same name. Crying in H Mart is due… Read More
The FADER and This T-Shirt, a platform that "connects you with organizations and individuals in need through apparel collections," have joined forces launch a capsule collection supporting music venues that have been shuttered throughout the coronavirus pandemic. They've revealed the… Read More
Jazz is very much alive, and following in the footsteps of Gilles Peterson's essential 2018 compilation We Out Here (which documents the current UK jazz scene), Adult Swim has released New Jazz Century, featuring a who's who of modern jazz… Read More
Garage punk greats The Spits are back with, VI, which is their first album in nine years. Clocking in at a breakneck 17 minutes, VI was written and recorded in various basements in and around Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, MI.… Read More
The most notable aspect of Fleet Foxes’ appropriately titled latest release, Shore, is just how much it sounds like being at the beach. That is true of the deliberately wet songs, such as the rhythmic lapping of the waves on… Read More