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Aaron Frazer (of Durand Jones & The Indications) has just announced his debut album, Introducing…, out January 8th, 2021 that will be co-released by Dead Oceans and Easy Eye Sound. The album is available to pre-order now on exclusive transparent purple and blue nebula vinyl, that is also currently included in a nice bundle including … Read more
French psychedelic progressive rockers SLIFT have unveiled a gripping black & white new video for “Altitude Lake”, that stages a deeply inspired dystopian world. Their latest full-length Ummon is catching fire and available through Vicious Circle Records (Europe/USA) and Stolen Body Records (UK). SLIFT’s dark animated new video “Altitude Lake” exalts the beauty of an … Read more
Plants and Animals have released a brand new single and video for “Love That Boy”, an intimate song created out of childhood memories and reflection about the constant evolution of family – “The Jungle,” their fifth studio album, is set to be released October 23rd via Secret City Records. Warren shares the inspiration behind the … Read more
Influential Kansas City indie rock band The Casket Lottery has unveiled another new track titled “More Blood,” along with an accompanying music video. “More Blood” appears on the band’s first new record in 8 years, Short Songs For End Times, due out on November 6th via Wiretap Records/Big Scary Monsters/Second Nature Recordings. Singer/guitarist Nathan Ellis … Read more
Gustaf have announced their signing to Royal Mountain Records, alongside their debut single and video “Mine“. The first recorded material from a band who have played sold out shows around the United States based solely on word of mouth, “Mine” offers an engagingly weird and frantically off-kilter look into the all-encompassing world of the Brooklyn-based art-punk quintet. Vocalist Lydia … Read more
Wild Pink have just announced their new album A Billion Little Lights, alongside their new single and video for “The Shining But Tropical”, starring newly-minted Emmy-winner Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek). This is the follow up to their 2018 breakthrough album Yolk In The Fur. The album is the band’s first record with Toronto-based label Royal Mountain Records, and will be released on February 19th, … Read more
“Daily Jobs” is the opening track of the upcoming new album from Italalian trio Bee Bee Sea. The album is titled Day Ripper and is out this Friday (10/9) via Wild Honey Records. , Frenzied riffs, sharp tempo shifts, melodic choruses, euphoric singalongs: they are all in there representing life’s manic ups and downs and … Read more
The Mountain Goats are Getting Into Knives with the release of their new album on October 23. Already anticipated by TFN, Knives follows other recent Mountain Goats releases like April’s Songs for Pierre Chuvin and 2019’s In League with Dragons, but it has been more than five years since we’ve had a Mountain Goats music video in our lives. That changes with “Get … Read more
This is the stunning new METZ video for “Blind Youth Industrial Park,” the latest track from Atlas Vending, which is the band’s soon-to-be-released new album that is out this Friday. The beautifully dystopian video depicts a woman dragging an injured companion on a stretcher through an alien landscape as the pair are tracked by a … Read more
Andy Shauf’s The Neon Skyline, released earlier this year via ANTI-, is one of 2020’s most highly praised records. The “gorgeously rendered folk-pop storytelling” (Billboard, The 50 Best Albums of 2020 So Far) continues to garner incredible praise from critics and fans alike. Today, Shauf presents a stunning video for the album’s “Clove Cigarette,” which … Read more
FUZZ, the raw power trio comprised of Los Angeles-based Ty Segall (drums, vocals), Charles Moothart (guitar, vocals), and Chad Ubovich (bass, vocals), will release their new album and first in five years, III, on October 23rd via In The Red. Today, FUZZ release a new single, “Spit,” and its mind-bending stop motion video. Following lead … Read more
I think if you watch the video above it will explain it all. It also will explain why you need this piece of wax for $40. Ha – either you get it or you don’t but trust us when we say you should pick up this album. Cash Rivers is retiring and this is one … Read more
Today, we reintroduce you to the men of Chavez — Matt Sweeney, James Lo, Clay Tarver, and Scott Marshall — whose debut full-length, Gone Glimmering, will be reissued on 10/23. You can pre-order a copy of the newly expanded Gone Glimmering HERE First released on May 23, 1995 Gone Glimmering remains an unparalleled slab of … Read more
Matt Berninger—frontman of critically acclaimed group The National—is livestreaming now on YouTube in celebration of the premiere of the official Chris Sgroi-directed video for the single “One More Second,” off his highly anticipated debut solo record, Serpentine Prison, due October 16. Berninger is hosting a cocktail “hour”—dubbed Cocktail Seconds with Matt Berninger—along with special guests Chris Sgroi and Tom Berninger, discussing the making of the … Read more
Mi’ens’ Kill Rock Stars debut album, Future Child, was just released last Friday. To support the release the band has launched a video for “Charge Dodger.” It is a full on noisy, get weird and fuzzed-out type of track. The video is a ride through a post-pandemic urban core, with a dig at slaves to consumerism … Read more
Kevin Morby has released a new singles with “Wander” that has this accompanying video. The track is from his forthcoming album, Sundowner, which is out October 16th on Dead Oceans. Following lead single “Campfire,” “Wander” is a decidedly a more insistent song. Harmonica and scorching guitar complement the intensity of Morby’s voice. The video, directed by Graham Shafer, … Read more
Our friends over at Wharf Cat Records have another solid indie record releasing this Friday (9/25) and we know you will want to add this super limited edition to your ever growing vinyl collection. The artist is Profligate, which is the vehicle of the talented Noah Anthony, and his new LP is Too Numb To … Read more
Sometimes, you just have to walk away. That’s one of the many life lessons that Evan Thomas Weiss details on his just released Into it. Over it. album, Figure, and specifically on his new song We Prefer Indoors, out today. Written about a short-lived relationship that went on for much longer than it had to, it’s about rediscovering your … Read more
Throwing Muses return and sing songs aquatic; toasting the dark blue of the water, the New Orleans bywater viewed from New England’s Bo Diddley bridge. The bridge collapsing, the water waiting – who’s saving us? Returning with their signature sound, the legendary Boston trio Throwing Muses, consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges, … Read more
The Deftones new album Ohms is arriving on September 25th 2020 on Reprise / Warner Records – with its title track and video last month, the Deftones have unveiled a new track and video for “Genesis.” The video is directed by Sebastian Kökow with live performance direction and cinematography by Clemente Ruiz. “Genesis,” was produced by … Read more
Acclaimed Celtic punk band Flogging Molly are excited to announce the 20th Anniversary, limited edition vinyl box set of the band’s debut album, Swagger. 20 years ago, Swagger impacted the punk and rock music worlds as an utterly unique statement from an undeniably incredible group of musicians, who to that point had been honing the songs in increasingly packed bars until … Read more
Living on such a chaotic planet, tossing and turning is inevitable. It’s hard to sleep in the midst of uncertainty. That’s why Sundressed was born. Lead vocalist and songwriter Trevor Hedges began his project in 2012, with the initial purpose of maintaining his sobriety. Now, 8 years later, Hedges has refocused the project’s mission, writing songs that tackle mental health issues for others … Read more
Today Fontaines D.C. have shared a music video for “A Lucid Dream,” which is off their newly-released second LP A Hero’s Death (Partisan). A Hero’s Death has been one of the best-received albums of 2020 so far, debuting at #2 in the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift). Far from a re-hash of their swaggering … Read more
In swampy, sweaty, Silsbee, TX, Hannah Read first formed Lomelda with her high school best friends. Throughout the next decade, Lomelda made a habit out of stretching to fit new friendships and shrinking down to solo strummings. Four albums and a never-the-same live show chronicle these shifts in shape and sound. Hannah was produced by Hannah … Read more
Taking influence from heavy psych/world music peers such as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Goat, Here Lies Man and Kikagaku Moyo, Sydney 7-piece Kimono Drag Queens are coming in with some hype with their debut album Songs of Worship. Songs of Worship is due for release digitally on November 6th, 2020 with the vinyl … Read more