Steven and Ian kill some time at the start chatting about the return of Tobias Jesso Jr. and Steven’s recent list of the best 21st century indie-rock albums, which generated some buzz online. But they devote most of the episode… Read More
The road to d4vd‘s debut album Withered has seen the singer wonder “Where’d It Go Wrong,” lament “My House Is Not A Home,” and boast “There Goes My Baby.” After asking for “One More Dance” and narrowly avoiding “Crashing” with… Read More
Perfume Genius has some of the most striking album covers in recent memory. Take the defiant pose Mike Hadreas, donned in a metal vest, assumes on 2014’s Too Bright. There’s also the way his shirtless frame occupies the stark, black-and-white… Read More
Lazarus, a new anime series from Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe, is coming soon: The show is set to premiere on April 5 at midnight, on Adult Swim’s Toonami block (episodes will be on Max the next day). Some great… Read More
The music video has changed a lot since the turn of the century. Labels are no longer spending millions of dollars to trap Michael and Janet Jackson in an anime-playing spaceship, and just as video killed the radio star, so,… Read More
Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney: name another talk show where the guests include Michael Keaton, Joan Baez, and Quinta Brunson; there’s music from Cypress Hill and the Kims (Gordon and Deal); and Richard Kind, the man, the myth, the legend,… Read More
PinkPantheress laid relatively low in 2024 and so far in 2025, too (aside from popping up on a Shygirl song and a Jack Harlow/Doja Cat video). At the start of the year, though, she teased a comeback by sharing some… Read More
There were months of uncertainty about what Julien Baker and Torres were up to, even before they performed together on The Tonight Show in December 2024. It was only in late January that they made their big reveal to the… Read More
The fear of appearing naked in front of your classmates is compelling proof of a collective unconscious — it’s one of the most common nightmare scenarios despite almost no one experiencing it in their waking life. The dressing down Palmyra… Read More
In an indie-rock landscape where everyone’s getting twangier and twangier, seldom does a band come along that subtly nods to alt-country rather than diving in headfirst. Great Grandpa’s third album, Patience, Moonbeam, dishes up flourishes like the plucky banjo in… Read More