Osees taped a full band show for Levitation fest's virtual series that was streamed back in September. It was also released digitally as a live album, and now the Levitation Sessions are getting a vinyl release on March 5 with… Read More
Muzz, the indie supergroup trio of Interpol frontman Paul Banks, Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman), and Matt Barrick (The Walkmen), just released their covers EP, featuring their pretty, low-key takes on Mazzy Star's "Fade into You", Bob Dylan's "Girl from… Read More
Post-hardcore greats Touche Amore released their excellent fifth album Lament earlier this year via Epitaph, and though they couldn't tour behind it, they did do a livestreamed release show (presented by SOS Booking and Sound & Fury) that saw them… Read More
The mystery guests at KEXP and Sub Pop's virtual edition of the annual SMooCH benefit were called Couch Riffs. They turned out to be a Seattle all-star band, featuring Death Cab's Ben Gibbard, Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Mark Lanegan (Screaming… Read More
LD Beghtol, musician, artist and writer who contributed The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (and wrote the 33 1/3 book on it), has died at 56. Confirmation came via Magnetic Fields, who wrote, "It is with great sadness that we… Read More
Michigan punkgazers Greet Death are still riding high off the release of 2019's great New Hell (Deathwish), and though they didn't put out anything new this year, they did do some quarantine performances and they spoke to us earlier in… Read More
Indie rapper/producer Lushlife is releasing the Redmancy EP in February 2021 via Fortune Tellers, the label run by The Walkmen's Peter Matthew Bauer. It was made with members of NYC free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, and it features Felicia Douglass… Read More
Laura Jane Grace had been planning on making a new album with Against Me! this year — their first since 2016's Shape Shift With Me — but coronavirus, of course, got in the way. We still got to hear new… Read More
While the coronavirus pandemic means there won't be much in the way of in-person holiday gatherings to attend this year, "ugly" holiday sweaters remain a time-honored tradition, and pulling one on may help get you into the spirit of the… Read More
Kid Cudi's new album, Man on the Moon III: The Chosen, is due out Friday December 11 via Wicked Awesome and Republic, and he's just revealed the cover art and tracklisting. Featured on the album are Skepta, Trippie Redd, the… Read More