Andrew BirdInside ProblemsLoma Vista Recordings [2022] In the follow-up to his fine, Headphone Approved 2019 release, My Finest Work Yet, Andrew Bird continues to deliver smart, thoughtful music that displays his talented violin skills in catchy pop-oriented songs, most that defy simplistic genre categories. On that work, he seemed quite taken with the world of … Read more
In early 2020, the long-standing three-piece lineup of Kal Marks dissolved. This left Carl Shane, the band’s vocalist, guitarist, and de facto leader wondering if the Boston noise-rock institution he’d started nearly a decade prior would even continue. “Dylan Teggart (A Deer A Horse) reached out to me and asked if I wanted to play … Read more
John DoeFables In A Foreign LandFat Possum Records [2022] Before “Folk music” was an established commercial genre and came to be associated as a specific style of acoustic music, it was first and foremost music made by and for regular folk. Whether sung around a campfire or on street corners, and broadly speaking folk music … Read more
Editors announce their seventh album EBM, due September 23, 2022 via Play It Again Sam. The new album will be the first with new band member Benjamin John Power, aka Blanck Mass, who was announced as a full time member last month with the album’s first single “Heart Attack.” A second preview is now available … Read more
HorsegirlVersions Of Modern PerformanceMatador Records [2022] Chicago’s Horsegirl is a fantastic throwback nod to some indie guitar greats of the past that include Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Gang Of Four. The trio of Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) represent a fresh face of artists that have … Read more
Horse Jumper of Love recently announced their highly anticipated third full-length, Natural Part, due out June 17th from Run For Cover Records. Today the Boston-based slowcore champions are sharing another early taste of the record with its almost-title-track “The Natural Part.” The eleven songs found on Natural Part push the dynamics of Horse Jumper of … Read more
Sharon Van EttenWe’ve Been Going About This All WrongJagjaguwar [2022] There’s a lot going on in our world right now, and rocker Sharon Van Ettan, like many of us, takes the whole mess quite personally. In her song “Anything,” she admits to being “Up the whole night, undefined/Can’t stop thinking about peace and war.” But … Read more
Having just wrapped their first North American tour since 2019, in support of latest album Skinty Fia, which debuted at #1 on both the UK and Irish Album Charts, Fontaines D.C. have unveiled a video for their most recent single “Roman Holiday.” The 70s heist-inspired video was “the result of attempting to challenge the monarchy … Read more
Drive-By TruckersWelcome 2 Club XIIIATO Records [2022] The opening chords of Drive-By Truckers’ fourteenth studio album carry the dense distorted grungy guitar sound of The Dirty South in a way that recalls many of the band’s releases across their long, 26-year history. They lead the listener into the 7-minute talking blues of Patterson Hood’s The … Read more
Reverend Baron released “It’s My Turn (To Cry, Cry, Cry),” the new single from his album From Anywhere (out June 24th via Colemine Records). From the academy of deep soul and no ego, Reverend Baron delivers visions of liquor store East LA, the off-the-freeway dry mirage of slow motion graffiti and lonely seagulls. A nylon … Read more
DehdBlue SkiesFat Possum Records [2022] Chicago’s Dehd have grown with each album they have released since their self-titled debut came out in 2016. The band really seemed to be hitting a musical peak with 2020’s Headphone Approved Flower Of Devotion and with all the critical acclaim the indie band experienced – way more attention! That … Read more
Mitch Mitchell’s Terrifying ExperienceAppalachian TontineThrill Kill City Music [2022] Somewhere in a Dayton, Ohio neighborhood, squalls of guitar feedback escape into the night air. Cans of cheap beer and ash trays are scattered around the makeshift home studio, where riffs seemingly transported through time from somewhere between 1967 and 1975 keep pushing the levels on … Read more
Muse releases their newest song “Will of The People.” This is the third song from their forthcoming album of the same name, set for release on August 26th via Warner Records. Earlier in the year the band released “Compliance” and “Won’t Stand Down,” both racking up critical acclaim and the latter described by NME as … Read more
SlangCockroach In A Ghost TownKill Rock Stars [2022] Slang started out as a side project for drummer Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) and singer/guitarist Drew Grow, in Portland, Ore. over a decade ago, singing covers of the Everly Brothers and Traveling Wilburys, but Cockroach In A Ghost Town finds them joined by Anita Lee Elliot on guitar … Read more
Bobby Oroza’s new album Get On The Otherside is due out June 10th via Big Crown Records. “Sweet Agony” is a track from the new album as its video, which Bobby directed and edited himself, plays out like a nightmarish audition tape where he casts himself as a vampire with aspirations of being a performer, … Read more
WilcoCruel CountrydBpm Records [2022] The advance word on Wilco’s 12th studio album, Cruel Country, was that the long 21-song double-disc release would be a return of sorts to leader Jeff Tweedy’s country music roots. Tweedy’s previous work in Uncle Tupelo was largely responsible for creating that expectation, something the band strived to distance itself from … Read more
Drummer Jeremy Cunningham, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, and bassist/producer Paul Bryan have announced their debut album as a trio, A Better Ghost, which will be released on July 29, 2022 via Northern Spy Records. “A Better Ghost ties Dustin and me to a time of creation that halted during the pandemic,” says Cunningham. “Getting back to … Read more
Golden ApplesGolden ApplesLame-O Records [2022] Led by guitarist/songwriter Russell Edling, Philadelphia-based Golden Apples started as more of a solo project but now has evolved into a full band lineup. Edling and the group showed a catchy indie pop style on their excellent Headphone Approved debut, Shadowland, just last year so this sophomore effort represents a … Read more
Get ready power pop fans! Supercrush have returned with a new EP, Melody Maker, out June 3rd via the band’s own label KR Records in the U.S., Debt Offensive Records in Canada, Erste Theke Tonträger in Europe, and Flake Records in Japan. The new five song offering finds the Seattle-based group delivering a dose of … Read more
ColaDeep In ViewFire Talk Records [2022] Deep In View is the debut album from Cola. The band is made up of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside drummer Evan Cartwright (US Girls, The Weather Station). Titled after philosopher Alan Watts’ anthology of the same name, the record thrives on … Read more
Bush Tetras have announced their upcoming West Coast tour supporting their excellent Rhythm and Paranoia box set (Wharf Cat Records) with Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) on drums. All upcoming shows & tour dates are listed below. Front-woman Cynthia Sley had this to say about the exciting times for the band and their upcoming tour with … Read more
Craig FinnA Legacy Of RentalsPositive Jams/Thirty Tigers [2022] By now, after eight albums with The Hold Steady and four solo studio albums, we’ve figured out that Craig Finn is as much of a storyteller as he is a songwriter. Finn has a penchant for dark narratives about folk trapped in the difficult outcomes of bad … Read more
Chicago band Horsegirl – Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) – unveil a new single/video, “Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty),” from their debut album, Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd on Matador. In-step with a string of incredibly well-received singles, “Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)” is a scuffed up, guitar-driven piece of garage-pop. The tracks’ lyrics brim with alliteration and slanted rhymes, … Read more
Tony Molina has returned with the announcement of his new album, In The Fade. The record is due out August 12th via Summer Shade, a new imprint from Run For Cover Records, curated by Madison Woodward (Fury, Object of Affection). In The Fade encapsulates everything that’s so appealing about Molina’s songwriting. The album flies by … Read more
Weird NightmareWeird NightmareSub Pop Records [2022] Weird Nightmare is the new project from METZ guitarist and singer Alex Edkins. This self-titled debut record showcases a new side of Edkins, as it was created of mostly ideas that didn’t seem to totally fit the more in your face post punk noise rock of METZ. Some of … Read more