Fire Note Staff 
Bambara recently announced their new mini-LP, Love on My Mind, and shared a video for opening single “Mythic Love” (featuring Bria Salmena). Already renowned for their sense of drama, Bambara have ratcheted up the theatrics once again with “Mythic Love,” bringing all of the hard-charging intensity of their celebrated Stray single “Serafina,” but leaving room … Read more
Ghost Woman is the project of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko. Today Ghost Woman is sharing a new single titled “Do You” via Full Time Hobby. On new cut “Do You,” Evan swaps out the garage-punk angst of Lost Echo’s EP for a more contemplative approach: “For the last EP I had just ended a long … Read more
Animal Collective returns with Time Skiffs. Its nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder. Harmonies so rich you want to … Read more
The Copyrights hail from a small college town in downstate Illinois called Carbondale. They formed in 2002, and quickly were embraced by the pop-punk community for their fun lyrics, big hooks, and infectious choruses. A year later, in 2003, they released their first album, We Didn’t Come Here to Die, which was produced by Mass … Read more
Beach Fossils share new single “Down The Line (Piano)” from their new album The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads, out November 19th on Bayonet Records. “I’ve regularly attempted to harness the feeling that I get while listening to jazz and pour it into my songs,” says the band’s Dustin Payseur. “There’s always been an … Read more
Parquet Courts will release their new album, Sympathy For Life, this Friday on Rough Trade Records, and play a coinciding record release show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Today, they present a new single/video, “Homo Sapien.” Additionally, tomorrow, the band will present. Feel Free: Sympathy for Life, Visualized. their NoonChorus livestream event, where fans can … Read more
This Friday, October 22, Clinic will release their ninth album, their most electronic and pop record yet: Fantasy Island, transporting listeners to tropical climes and other dimensions. Following videos for album tracks “Fine Dining”, “Fantasy Island”, and a cover of Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand The Rain”, today the band share a last preview, sprawling … Read more
Big Crown Records is proud to present Piece of Me, the sophomore full length offering from Lady Wray. The album will be released on January 28, 2022. This is something of a homecoming for Nicole. Where her 2016 solo debut Queen Alone leaned more towards Soul and R&B with tinges of hip-hop, this record changes … Read more
Miami’s Seafoam Walls return today with a knotty new single + live video, “AI,” from their debut album XVI, out November 12 via The Daydream Library Series, the house record label of Ecstatic Peace Library operated by Eva Prinz & Thurston Moore. Today’s release displays the band’s collagic approach to jazz, shoegaze, rock, hip-hop, and … Read more
Big Thief unveil “Change,” another solid track in their catalogue, and announce a spring North American tour. Following three stunning singles – “Little Things,” “Sparrow,” and “Certainty,” “Change” is intimate and evocative, and places the listener right alongside the band. Dreamy, eerie harmonies find warmth in the simple romance of Adrianne Lenker’s lyrics; their innocent … Read more
Following the announcement of their headline North American tour in January 2022, The Wombats unveiled “Ready For The High,: the latest offering from their forthcoming album Fix Yourself, Not The World out January 7 (AWAL). A sultry buzz rock note-to-self to accept the good times now they’re here, the track comes accompanied by a video … Read more
Kevin Morby and Hamilton Leithauser are kicking off their Fall Mixer North American tour later this week. Today, they present a collaborative track, “Virginia Beach,” which follows Morby’s A Night At The Little Los Angeles, a 4-track demo version of Sundowner out now via Dead Oceans, and Leithauser’s The Loves of Your Life, out now … Read more
On November 19 Nashville-based band Palm Ghosts will release their anticipated new full-length album, The Lost Frequency (pre-order). The band is presenting the official video for the album’s first single “Bloodlight.” The video was directed by Nick Hawl and produced by Ty Laird. It features Ben de la Cour, Jessica Bell, Charles Hager and Cole Morse and can be shared at YouTube. The song debuted earlier this month at Post-Punk and is available now … Read more
Andrew Gabbard’s (Gabbard Brothers, Buffalo Killers) new studio album Homemade drops December 3rd via Colemine Records imprint Karma Chief Records. A musician whose influences span hard rock, psych, garage rock, and energetic pop, Andrew Gabbard has long been a force on the Southwestern Ohio music scene. Working with Thee Shams, Buffalo Killers, and currently as … Read more
LA-based incendiary rock band Kills Birds are sharing their new single “Cough Up Cherries,” the third offering from their upcoming, sophomore album Married, out via their new label home Royal Mountain Records and KRO Records on November 12th. The band have recently confirmed several tour dates with Foo Fighters and Sleigh Bells for 2021 and … Read more
Brooklyn art punks Gustaf have released their debut album, Audio Drag For Ego Slobs via Royal Mountain Records. Following singles “Best Behavior”, “Book” and “The Motions”, the band shared a final video for “Cruel” as they have a supporting run with IDLES throughout the US. With further dates planned with new Royal Mountain label-mates Pillow … Read more
Feel It Records has welcomed one of their favorite current songwriters to the label – Jake Robertson and his solo alter-ego Alien Nosejob. One of the most familiar faces in the busy Melbourne music scene; Jake Robertson (who you may remember from such class acts as Ausmuteants, Hierophants, School Damage, et al) returns in full-fledged … Read more
Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500) has shared a new single, the kaleidoscopic baroque-pop stunner, “As Much As It Was Worth It.” The track is off his upcoming album, I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A which is out next Friday, October 15. The video for the song was directed by German artist … Read more
Mitski makes a daring return with “Working for the Knife,” a new single/video and the announcement of a spring 2022 North American tour. “Working for the Knife” surges with synth and a syncopated beat, driven by Mitski’s tenor and production by longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland. “It’s about going from being a kid with a dream, … Read more
JOHN—the post-hardcore London duo of John Newton (drums, lead vocals) and Johnny Healey (guitar, backing vocals)—today released “Stadium of No,” the final track off their new album Nocturnal Manoeuvres, out this Friday, October 8th via the band’s own Pets Care imprint and Brace Yourself Records. The frenetic and impressively angular “Stadium of No” features spiked … Read more
Chime School are sharing their new upbeat & jangly “It’s True” single/video. Chime School is due on 11/5 via Slumberland Records. Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his teeth as a drummer … Read more
Courtney Barnett has released “Write A List Of Things To Look Foward To” off her upcoming album Things Take Time, Take Time which drops November 12th – a melodic love letter to friends and friendship. Courtney took the song’s name from advice given by a friend to get her out of a depressive funk, “I … Read more
IDLES have announced the Nov. 12 Partisan Records release of CRAWLER, the U.K. group’s fourth album in as many years and the follow-up to their first No. 1, 2020’s Ultra Mono. The 14-track project was recorded at the famed Real World Studios in Bath during the COVID-19 pandemic and co-produced by Kenny Beats (Vince Staples, … Read more
Velvet Starlings – the 60s infused garage rock ‘n’ roll band hailing from Los Angeles and the beach cities of Southern California – will release their debut album Technicolour Shakedown, on Wednesday, September 29th via Sound x 3 Records, with the vinyl release by Kitten Robot in the US. The band was founded by guitarist … Read more
Andy Shauf surprised announced his new album Wilds, last week which was out Friday, September 24th (digitally)/November 19th (physically) via ANTI-. The record offers a peek into Shauf’s creative process and how the multi-instrumentalist first begins building his songs into more ornately arranged final products. Additionally, he presents a new song, “Jaywalker.” Wilds is a collection of nine songs … Read more