Lars and the Magic Mountain is a new act formed by the Netherlands’ Lars Kroon of the band St. Tropez. The title of the new group hints at their space pop and psychedelic inclinations, and indeed, their latest single, “Invincible”,… Read More
Otis Junior is an alternative R&B singer from Louisville, Kentucky with a silky, mellifluous voice that recalls some of the sweetest soul music of the 1970s. Speaking of “sweet”, for Otis Junior’s latest single, he teams up with noted Kentucky… Read More
Australian First Nations singer-songwriter GLVES creates dense, deep, and darkish electropop that mesmerizes with its blend of electronics and native sounds. Her second single, “Heal Me”, out today is very much of that ilk. It’s an even “bigger” song than… Read More
The Last Shall Be First: the JCR Records Story, Volume 1 is a compilation of lost Memphis gospel music from the 1970s and is out 18 September via Bible & Tire. The set features liner notes from Michael Hutt and… Read More
The Cradle, the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paco Cathcart (Big Neck Police, Eyes of Love, Shimmer), has curated a thoughtfully multifarious album. His Laughing in My Sleep, released by NNA Tapes, is an impressive collection of 21 tracks,… Read More
Claire Denis’ masterwork of cinematic poetry Beau travail is not a traditional anti-imperialist film, but it is one of the most elemental. Set in the rugged desert terrain of Djibouti among a diverse troop of French Foreign Legionnaires, the film… Read More
If you think you’re an overachiever, think again – Daniel Romano’s got us all beat. So far this year, Romano has released nine full-length albums, a pace that would even make Ty Segall’s head spin. His latest, How Ill Thy… Read More
As he prepared to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March 1965 on what was to become known as ‘Bloody Sunday’, the late civil rights leader and one-day congressman John Lewis prepared for what he anticipated would be his… Read More
Since Shirley Collins’ return to music in 2016 with Lodestar, she’s been exceptionally productive. After the release of a film and soundtrack, The Ballad of Shirley Collins, the prize-winning autobiography All in the Downs, it became obvious that Collins’ musical… Read More
Bassmaster Brian Bromberg has remixed and remastered his 2012 album Bromberg Plays Hendrix to mark the half-century passing of guitar master Jimi Hendrix. One of the more remarkable feats on the record is that Bromberg includes no guitars. It’s just… Read More