Austin-based band Why Bonnie just released their debut album, 90 in November, via Keeled Scales. The record mixes Texas' outlaw country heritage with classic '90s alt rock for a hazy, ragged and often beautiful sound featuring Blair Howerton's melodic songwriting and smoky… Read More
Pick up our exclusive electric blue vinyl variant of the new Mike Park / Catbite split. Mike Park (Skankin' Pickle, The Bruce Lee Band, The Chinkees, Asian Man Records) has shared the second of two songs that he contributed to… Read More
Alamo Drafthouse is taking enduring 1971 family film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory on a tour of 11 of its theaters in September, featuring post-screening Q&As with actors who played kids Veruca Salt (Julie Dawn Cole) and Mike Teavee (Paris Thenemen). They're calling it… Read More
Country singer Sunny Sweeney is gearing up to release her Paul Cauthen-co-produced Married Alone on 9/23 via Aunt Daddy/Thirty Tigers (pre-order), and we're now premiering its title track, which features guest vocals by country veteran Vince Gill. Sunny says: My… 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
This week in Indie Basement: Hot Chip's eighth album is one of their most sublime creations to date; Aussie punks The Chats deliver pure snotty attitude on their second album; Brooklyn experimentalists Oneida play it straight on Success; New Zealand… Read More
It's another eventful week in the music world. The Sharon Van Etten / Angel Olsen / Julien Baker tour finally rolls through NYC for two Central Park shows this weekend (and we made a list of 25 of our favorite… Read More
Interpol never really sounded that much like Joy Division. Gloomy post-punk, for sure, there's no denying that. And, ok, Paul Banks' strained, occasionally strangled vocal style was reminiscent of Ian Curtis, but if all you hear when listening to their… Read More
After the Red Hot Chili Peppers released Unlimited Love — their first album with guitarist John Frusciante in 16 years — in April, they revealed that a second album of 2022 called Return of the Dream Canteen would arrive on… 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