We don’t often stan men ’round these parts – certainly not straight men – but BT is one of the rare good ones. The trance pioneer has paved a truly unique path in the electronic world, pushing the boundaries of… Read More
Before this year, a bilingual club banger from two Romanian pop goddesses about dancing like in Jamaica and being the life of the party wouldn’t sound nearly so at odds with the current cultural mood. But at a time… Read More
Elvis Costello has been releasing a series of singles this year and has now announced that they're all on a new album, Hey Clockface, that will be out October 30 via Concord Records. The album was recorded mostly in Paris,… Read More
We're about a month and a half away from the arrival of Sufjan Stevens' highly anticipated Carrie & Lowell followup, The Ascension (due 9/25 via Asthmatic Kitty), and following the release of the 12-minute album closer "America" and its ten-minute… Read More
It’s the most wonderful time(s) of the year: Record Store Day. The annual celebration of all things 7″, 12″ and beyond – we’re talking about vinyl here, get your heads out of the gutter – is a celebration of independent… Read More
Prole Art Threat takes its name and credo from a Fall song; according to Anthoney Hart, who produces grime under the name East Man, the title is “a reflection of working-class creativity and how the establishment marginalize us and (perhaps… Read More
The Mountain Goats released the recorded-in-quarantine-on-a-boombox Songs for Pierre Chuvin earlier this year, but are now back with a proper studio album, Getting Into Knives, which will be out October 23 via Merge. This album shares a sense of immediacy… Read More
Jacknife Lee’s discography has historically moved in two very different directions. His production credits for acts like U2 and Snow Patrol display a penchant for self-serious adult-contemporary rock; like the nu-metal mashups of Missy Elliott and Eminem that brought him… Read More
Back in 2017, before Pedro the Lion reunited, David Bazan released the debut album by his new band Lo Tom, which also features former Pedro the Lion member TW Walsh and Starflyer 59 members Jason Martin and Trey Many (the… Read More
DC band Edsel, who released records on Dischord, DeSoto, Jade Tree, Grass and others, broke up in 1997 though they've played a few one-off reunion shows in the years since. Frontman Sohrab Habibion went on to be in Obits and… Read More