- newWatch A Trailer For HBO’s Jason Isbell Documentary Running With Our Eyes Closed
- 19 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 3:00pm -
- newLucinda Chua – “Something Other Than Years” (Feat. Yeule)
Lucinda Chua is part of a wave of artists doing fascinating experimental music rooted in classical traditions. This Friday she’ll release her debut solo album YIAN, preceded today by one last single. Recorded in an “ASMR cave” set up by Chua, t…
- 20 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 1:27pm -
- newDaft Punk Share Studio Audio From “Fragments Of Time” Recording Session
In May, Daft Punk are releasing a 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories featuring 35 minutes worth of previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Today, they’ve shared the first of those bonus tracks: “The Writing Of Fragments Of Time,…
- 20 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 1:18pm -
- newJust Can’t Get Enough: The Warring Depeche Mode Tribute Bands Of Los Angeles
“Attn Talent Agents, Promoters, Venues, Clubs, and fans: Devotional Dave is no longer with Strangelove The Depeche Mode experience as of Feb 2018 – Any promotional audio-video recording or photographs promoting my image is not permitted and no lo…
- 20 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 1:06pm -
- newThe National – “Eucalyptus”
On my first listen through the National’s new album First Two Pages Of Frankenstein, “Eucalyptus” jumped out. The track has continued to be a favorite on subsequent spins, ingratiating itself as one of the highlights of the band’s recent cata…
- 21 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 12:32pm -
- newFoyer Red – “Gorgeous”
- 21 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 12:20pm -
- newNewport Jazz Festival Announces 2023 Lineup
Newport Jazz Festival has announced its 2023 lineup. Top-billed acts for the 69th anniversary edition of the festival include Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste, and the Grateful Dead cover group Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, who will be performing with Kamasi…
- 22 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 12:00pm -
- newFrost Children – “HI 5”
Frost Children — natives of St. Louis, the NYC cool-kid scene, and the internet — were everywhere during SXSW, including a rooftop set at Whole Foods and one of the wildest performances at our own Range Life party. The live show, as much a raucou…
- 22 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 11:50am -
- newDevo Documentary In The Works
Devo will be the subject of a new documentary. Officially sanctioned by the band, in partnership with BMG, Fremantle Documentaries, and Warner Music Entertainment, Devo will be directed by Chris Smith, known for his work on documentary projects inclu…
- 22 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 11:21am -
- newOFF! – “Keep Your Mouth Shut”
The long-running hardcore band OFF! have been going through some band turmoil, and they debuted a new updated lineup with Free LSD, a full-length album that came out last fall. This year, they’re releasing a new EP for Record Store Day called FLSD,…
- 22 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 11:08am -
- newM. Sage – “River Turns Woodley (For Frogman)”
The Colorado ambient musician Matthew Sage will release his new album Paradise Crick in May. The album is designed to blur the boundaries between the natural and fabricated worlds, a task accomplished in humorous fashion by the video for its new sing…
- 23 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 10:54am -
- newRina Sawayama – “Eye For An Eye”
Rina Sawayama is making her feature film debut in John Wick: Chapter 4, which hits theaters this week. Naturally, when you put a pop musician in your film, you hope to get a song out of it, and Sawayama did indeed contribute a new one to the John Wic…
- 23 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 10:26am -
- newNever Ending Game – “Never Die” (Feat. Justice Tripp) & “Memories”
God forgives. NEG don’t. Over the past few years, Detroit’s Never Ending Game have carved out a rep as one of the hardest bands in all of hardcore. The band’s sound is an absolutely brutal metallic stomp. Everyone in the band can play, and ever…
- 23 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 10:26am -
- newBand To Watch: Lamp Of Murmuur
The first official Lamp Of Murmuur show took place on October 30, 2021, at LA’s First Street Pool & Billiard Parlor. It sold out well in advance. Honestly, it was probably oversold, as black metal fans stood shoulder to shoulder alongside awkwardly…
- 23 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 10:15am -
- newSpeakers Corner Quartet – “Fix” (Feat. Tirzah)
A couple months back, the London collective Speakers Corner Quartet teamed up with Sampha for a song, “Can We Do This.” Today, they’re back with another single, and this time they’ve paired up with Tirzah, who previously recruited the group f…
- 24 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 9:58am -
- newSly Stone Is Writing A Memoir
Sly Stone is a mythic figure whose career, from a distance, looks like some kind of overworked allegory about lofty utopian ideals crashing into cold, hard reality. His whole career arc is so wild that it can be hard to remember that he’s still aro…
- 24 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 9:46am -
- newHannah Jadagu – “Warning Sign”
In a couple months, the New York-based musician Hannah Jadagu is releasing her debut album, Aperture. We’ve heard “Say It Now” and “What You Did” from it already, and today she’s putting out another new one, the smooth “Warning Sign.”…
- 24 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 9:44am -
- newLet’s Eat Grandma – “From The Morning” (Nick Drake Cover)
Earlier this month, a massive Nick Drake tribute album was announced, which will be out in July and features contributions from Liz Phair, Feist, Philip Selway, and many more. At the time, we got Fontaines D.C.’s cover of “Cello Song.” Today, w…
- 24 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 9:33am -
- newBlack Duck – “Of The Lit Backyards”
Black Duck comprises three mainstays of the Chicago music scene, Douglas McCombs of Tortoise, Brokeback, and Eleventh Dream Day plus Bill MacKay and Charles Rumback. It’s a project rooted in improv; for years, the band played completely improvised…
- 24 hours ago 22 Mar 23, 9:33am -
- Katie Gately – “Howl”
Next week, Katie Gately is releasing her new album Fawn / Brute. She started off the rollout by sharing its pair of title tracks, one of which made our best songs of the week list; “Cleave” followed a little while later. Today, she’s back with…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 9:26am -
- redveil – “giftbag”
Last year, the Maryland rapper/producer redveil released his lovely, contemplative album learn 2 swim on his 18th birthday. He followed that album by recruiting Denzel Curry for a “pg baby” remix and by releasing the one-off single “2daside.”…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 9:17am -
- Westerman – “Take”
In May, Westerman will release his sophomore album, An Inbuilt Fault, his follow-up to 2020’s Your Hero Is Not Dead. We’ve already heard last fall’s “Idol; RE-run” and “CSI: Petralona,” and now — just a day after hopping on the new Me…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 9:08am -
- Public Interest – “Residue”
Chris Natividad, perhaps best known as a member of the Oakland post-punk band Marbled Eye, also maintains a slew of other projects. One of them is Public Interest, a slightly different kind of post-punk act that evolved from a solo project into a pro…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 9:05am -
- Wednesday – “TV In The Gas Pump”
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- L.A. Exes – “Call Your Girlfriend” (Robyn Cover)
Two years ago, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs launched a new band called L.A. Exes, and they released their debut album Get Some. Youngs has always been into down-the-middle pop music. Shortly before starting L.A. Exes, she cover…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 8:44am -
- Australian Senator Defends Wearing Tame Impala Shirt In Parliament
David Pocock, a former international rugby player elected to the Australian senate last year, drew the ire of a TV news anchor Tuesday for wearing a Tame Impala shirt to work. As The Daily Mail points out, Tuesday morning Pocock addressed reporters i…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 8:33am -
- Moor Mother – “We Got The Jazz”
Last year, Camae Ayewa released her latest album as Moor Mother, Jazz Codes, and we talked to her about it in our monthly Ugly Beauty column. Today, she’s announcing a deluxe edition of the LP — out May 19 — that includes some new tracks, inclu…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 8:06am -
- Tekashi 6ix9ine Hospitalized After Being Violently Attacked In LA Fitness Sauna
Yesterday, the New York rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was hospitalized after being beaten by a group of men at a gym in South Florida. TMZ reports that 6ix9ine was in a sauna at an LA Fitness gym, without security, when several men, apparently unprovoked, a…
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 7:45am -
- The Number Ones: Plain White T’s’ “Hey There Delilah”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
- 1 day ago 22 Mar 23, 7:09am -
- Biden Awards Bruce Springsteen National Medal Of Arts
President Biden awarded Bruce Springsteen the National Medal Of Arts today at the White House East Room in a ceremony that also presented the National Humanities Medal. Technically, as the Hill reports, today’s event was for the medal’s 2021 reci…
- 2 days ago 21 Mar 23, 6:40pm -
- Nelsonville Music Festival 2023 Has Big Thief, Alex G, Kurt Vile, Alvvays, & Much More
Southeast Ohio’s Nelsonville Music Festival, one of the great regional music fests in North America, is moving on the calendar in 2023. The event used to take place in late spring/early summer, and last year it was on Labor Day weekend, partially d…
- 2 days ago 21 Mar 23, 1:06pm -
- Anne Hathaway & Michaela Coel To Star In Pop-Star Drama Mother Mary With Original Songs By Jack Antonoff & Charli XCX
Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX will write original songs for Mother Mary, a new film from The Green Knight director David Lowery that Deadline describes as “an epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician and her relationship with an iconic fash…
- 2 days ago 21 Mar 23, 1:01pm -
- Artist Portraits From Stereogum Range Life 2023
At our free Range Life party in Austin during SXSW last week, photographer Laura Harvey was buzzing around Cheer Up Charlie’s, wrangling every act on the bill for a series of great portraits in the vicinity. The show was a blast, bringing together…
- 2 days ago 21 Mar 23, 12:36pm -
- PACKS – “EC”
Back in January, the Toronto band PACKS announced a new album, Crispy Crunchy Nothing, and shared its lead single “4th Of July.” Since then, they’ve put out another song from it, “Brown Eyes,” and today they’re back with one more before t…
- 2 days ago 21 Mar 23, 12:08pm -
- Worriers – “Never Quite Kicks In”
A couple months back, the Los Angeles-based musician Lauren Denitzio announced a new Worriers album, Warm Blanket, and we’ve gotten two singles from it — “Pollen In The Air” and “Prepared To Forget” from it so far. Warm Blanket is out the…
- 2 days ago 21 Mar 23, 11:50am -