Fire Note Staff 
Australian rock band The Murlocs have unveiled the title track from their upcoming new album Bittersweet Demons. The track catalyzed the album’s entire concept, with its moody piano tones and softly sprawling arrangement, the song took shape soon after the 2019 death of frontman’s Ambrose Kenny-Smith’s dear friend Keegan Walker. Says Kenny-Smith, “I was messing … Read more
After Uncle Tupelo disbanded in 1994, Son Volt released their fantastic debut, Trace, driven by “Drown” in 1995.
“It was a black man in open, conscious resistance of the power that was trying to keep him enslaved—that was me…At last I had a chance to say what I believed in my deepest heart about politics, slavery, and about the genocide of Indians.”—Eugene McDaniels aka the left rev mc d. talking about his album, … Read more
Modest Mouse has shared the official video for “We Are Between,” the first single off their forthcoming new album The Golden Casket which is out June 25th via Epic Records. Directed by Kyle Thrash, the video features lead singer Isaac Brock stranded amongst a field of cars, with various characters, some real and some not, … Read more
Founded in Orange County before rising to greater prominence in Los Angeles, Media Jeweler are a band who have long pushed to the outer edges of the art rock scene they’ve been a fixture of for going on half a decade. From their early days sharing stages with artists like Palberta, Palm, Yonatan Gat and … Read more
Spike Jonze’s classic music video for San Jose rockers “Wax”. One of the most creative videos from his early career. The song rocks too!
Islands’ new LP Islomania is set to release on June 11th on Royal Mountain Records. “Carpenter” is the final preview of the LP. “Carpenter” is the third and final single from the indie band’s first album back after retiring in 2016, and follows the previously released “(We Like To) Do It With The Lights On” … Read more
Where the activities of many bands seemed to have dwindled over the last year due to COVID, Scotsman in Japan Chris Jack and his outfit The Routes, seem, if anything, to be creatively thriving. Instrumentals II, the ninth LP by The Routes, is their second album release this year following their recent killer psych/garage/punk-themed LP … Read more
Modest Mouse announced their return earlier this month and now they have shared a new single off their forthcoming album, The Golden Casket, out 6/25 via Epic Records. The band also has released dates for an extensive US tour which you can find below. Modest Mouse is known as one of the most consistent live … Read more
Drawn toward each other by some magnetic force and a mutual love of Yo La Tengo and Polvo, the early conversations that led to forming Pardoner wouldn’t have happened had it’s members not been living in the dorms at San Francisco State University. The primordial soup of spending countless hours around other creatives on an … Read more
Last month, London-based band Dry Cleaning released their 4AD debut and Headphone Approved album New Long Leg. Along with TFN the album has had tons of positive press and today the band has announced a fall tour in support of New Long Leg. Dry Cleaning will play select shows across the states, performing for the … Read more
Next up on Levitation Sessions: SLIFT! Recorded in what appears to be the engine room of their spaceship, SLIFT rip through a 70 minutes set inside the ultra-high voltage electron microscope at the National Institute of Applied Sciences’s CEMES Laboratory in Toulouse, FR. The show is June 5th with two premiere times – 7pm CET … Read more
Curtis Harding’s voice conveys pain, pleasure, longing, tenderness, sadness and strength—a full gamut of emotions. Today his voice takes on an optimistic lilt in his new single “Hopeful”. Directed by photojournalist Lynsey Weatherspoon, the song’s accompanying black and white video was filmed in the West End of Atlanta and features footage of a John Lewis … Read more
Yo No Se return with a 3rd video for their upcoming album Terraform. “Mosquito” was directed by Alex Studer, filmed by Toby Cameron of On Par Productions with animations by Arturo Baston. Terraform is out June 18th via Stolen Body Records. Yo No Se return after a 5-year hiatus since their last album, Soma. Their … Read more
We are celebrating another campaign for new artists with ReverbNation in AOW this week! We launched a 60 day campaign back in February and were once again surprised when TFN was listed on 5 million artist pages that generated almost 463,871 additional interested fans and had 1918 submissions for these 4 spots you see today … Read more
TORRES (moniker of Mackenzie Scott) new album, Thirstier, is out July 30th on Merge Records. “Don’t Go Puttin Wishes in My Head” is the first single. TORRES has also announced tour dates which you can find below. Thirstier, the follow-up to 2020’s Silver Tongue, is Scott’s most exuberant and daring record to date, showcasing her … Read more
Durand Jones & The Indications announce their new album, Private Space, out July 30th on Dead Oceans in association with Colemine Records, and a fall North American tour. Following the Indications’ 2019 Headphone Approved album, American Love Call, Private Space unlocks the door to a wider range of sounds, boldly launching the band into a … Read more
Have you caught any of these Levitation Sessions? So far each and every one has been fantastic and this weekends feels like the superbowl with Ty Segall & Freedom Band hitting the stage! Saturday, Ty and the band will rip through a discography spanning set filmed at Occidental College’s Remsen Bird Hillside Theater, a Greek … Read more
Runnner—the project of the now LA-based songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Noah Weinman—has signed to Run For Cover Records, which will release his new album Always Repeating on July 16TH, 2021. A 10-track collection composed of five re-recorded versions of songs that appeared on his 2017 debut, Awash, and last year’s One of One EP, Always Repeating serves as … Read more
The Goon Sax will be releasing their new album Mirror II on July 9th via Matador Records. The band’s third album and first for Matador, Mirror lI is a new beginning: a multi-dimensional eclectic journey of musical craftsmanship that moves from disco to folk to no wave skronk with staggering cohesion. The first-person narratives of … Read more
Beginning of April we told you about Australia’s Jackson Reid Briggs in TFN Artists of the Week feature. Previously only available as an import, their new album Waiting In A Corner has landed stateside at Green Noise Records via Drunken Sailor Records! The record is exclusively available from Green Noise on purple vinyl and is … Read more
Sleater-Kinney return with a new single and video entitled “Worry With You.” It marks their first new music since 2019. The accompanying visual, which was shot in Portland, OR was directed by Alberta Poon and stars Fabi Reyna and Megan Watson. The song also heralds the arrival of the group’s tenth full-length studio record, Path … Read more
Japanese Breakfast, the musical project of multi-hyphenate Michelle Zauner, has shared a self-directed video for “Posing In Bondage,” the latest single from her upcoming album Jubilee which is due out June 4th via Dead Oceans. “‘Posing in Bondage’ is a ballad about loneliness and longing, a song about two people who want so badly to … Read more
Cub Scout Bowling Pins returns with a new track, “Magic Taxi”, off their debut LP Clang Clang Ho which will hit playlists on July 2nd via Rockathon Records. This track follows their excellent Headphone Approved EP, Heaven Beats Iowa that was released in January of this year! According to the ears that have heard it, … Read more
