This week in heavy, we got the Century Media debut from Nashville nu-metalcore band Orthodox (which you can read about in Notable Releases), plus new ones from Russian Circles, Conan, Spirit Adrift, Heilung, and more. We also got the debut… Read More
The Swell Season's Marketa Irglova just released Lila, her first solo album in eight years. She made the album in Iceland with her partner/producer Sturla Mio Thorisson at their Masterkey Studios, and it completes the trilogy that started with 2011’s Anar and 2014’s Muna.… Read More
Citizen frontman Mat Kerekes released a new solo album, Nova (with Turnstile's Daniel Fang on drums), earlier this month, and he's announced a run of fall shows supporting it, which he says are his first solo dates "in a long,… Read More
Björk has revealed that her first album since 2017's Utopia is called Fossora and set to arrive this fall in an interview with Chal Ravens for The Guardian. It features serpentwithfeet and backing vocals from Björk's son Sindri and daughter… Read More
London trio The Comet Is Coming — aka Shabaka Hutchings (also of Shabaka and the Ancestors and Sons of Kemet), Dan Leavers (Danalogue), and Max Hallett (Betamax) — are gearing up to release their anticipated third album Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam… Read More
Danish rockers Iceage have announced a compilation titled Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015-2021, due September 23 via Mexican Summer (pre-order). Singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt describes the comp's songs as "misfit children," tracks that never landed on one of… Read More
Soul singer Lee Fields has detailed his first album for Daptone Records — it's titled Sentimental Fool, and will be out out October 28 (pre-order) via the label. The record was produced by Daptone founder Bosco Mann (aka Gabriel Roth),… Read More
Diane Luckey, the enigmatic musician who recorded and performed as Q Lazzarus and whose single "Goodbye Horses" was famously used in Silence of the Lambs, has died. Via Stereogum, Luckey died on July 19 at age 59. As Q Lazzarus,… Read More
Parting — the new-ish band co-fronted by Keith Latinen (Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)) and Ben Hendricks (Annabel) that also includes Gooey Fame (ex-Dowsing), and John Guynn (Hawk & Son) — released their debut record Unmake Me on… Read More
Meet TRI.BE. That stands for “tri” – as in triangle, the most perfect shape (their shape favoritism, not mine!) and “being,” And when you add that all up, it leads to their slogan: “We are perfect as we are.” We… Read More