When I met up with Craig Finn last week at a Minneapolis coffee shop, I was slightly worried that we might have trouble finding one another. We are, after all, two bookish white guys between the ages of 45 and… Read More
One of the most fun bands around is Winona Fighter. Take “You Look Like A Drunk Phoebe Bridgers,” a highlight from this year’s My Apologies To The Chef. First off, great title. Also, instead of making a music video about… Read More
MJ Lenderman and Wednesday are two of the biggest acts in indie rock, and back in 2021, they released an EP together. Guttering, which features lo-fi songs like “Big Money” and “Phish Pepsi,” is now being re-released on vinyl by… Read More
Jess Yaffa has been playing music for essentially her entire life, and for the 23-year-old singer-songwriter, it has all led to this: Her new album, Thoughts That Keep Me Up At Night, is set for release this week. Ahead of… Read More
Djo — the musical project of Stranger Things actor Joe Keery — has shared a final preview of his new album, The Crux, which comes out this Friday (April 7). “Potion” is an acoustic strummer that Keery described as “like… Read More
Julien Baker having your back means you’re doing something right in the indie music space: The Ophelias have a new album, Spring Grove, set to arrive this week and Baker produced the endeavor. When the group announced the project back… Read More
The Recording Academy is of course best known for hosting the Grammy Awards once a year, but the fact that they do more than the Grammys is lost to many people, something that CEO Harvey Mason Jr. himself admits. In… Read More
Allo Darlin’ released three albums between 2010 and 2014, but none since then. But today (March 24), the earnest indie-pop group released their first song in nine years, the sweetly intimate “Tricky Questions.” “There’s a piazza, Piazza della Signoria, not… Read More
The main overlap in the Lucy Dacus and Lady Gaga Venn diagram lately is that they released two of 2025’s most-anticipated albums so far: Mayhem for Gaga and Forever Is A Feeling for Dacus, with both releases arriving in March.… Read More
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s richest people, and if you’re someone who cancels your Amazon Prime membership a day before the free trial ends, you might want to skip the next paragraph. A record 3,028 people… Read More