Diane CoffeeWith PeoplePolyvinyl Records [2022] Diane Coffee is the solo creative pop music project and nom de guerre of Shaun Fleming, who played drums for a while for Foxygen, and had a voice acting career in the early 00’s on a number of Disney Channel animated TV series, Kim Possible and Lilo & Stitch, … Read more
Athens, GA-based psychedelic folk band Elf Power released the official video for the title track to their forthcoming album Artificial Countrysides that will be released on July 15 via Yep Roc Records. The video was directed and filmed by Dickie Cox. The band will kick off their summer tour on July 13 in Milwaukee, WI … Read more
The Head And The HeartEvery Shade Of BlueReprise/Warner Records [2022] The band, The Head and the Heart, arrived along with a new class of indie folk/rock acts in the early 2010’s that included The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men, as the new popularity of Mumford & Sons suggested a hunger for a more earthy, … Read more
Bloc PartyAlpha GamesInfectious/BMG [2022] Alpha Games is the sixth studio record from London’s Bloc Party and right from the opening track you can hear the dance-punk band reaching back for the glory beats of their fantastic 2005 debut Silent Alarm. Since a solid sophomore record, Bloc Party has never hit the same gold and appeared … Read more
The Flashing Lights were founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia by Matt Murphy following the breakup of his seminal band, The Super Friendz in 1997. Murphy had met bassist Henri Sangalang back when they were in grade 8 and the pair moved to Toronto, where they recruited Stephen Pitkin on drums and Gaven Dianda on keyboards, … Read more
Ryan AdamsChrisPAX-AM [2022] Ryan Adams is playing for redemption on his 19th studio album, Chris, which he’s described as the third part of a trilogy that began with his 2020 release, Wednesday. Of course, Adams has been persona non grata since the NYTimes in February of 2019, where his ex-wife Mandy Moore and several other … Read more
Kevin Morby presents a new single/video, “A Random Act Of Kindness,” from his forthcoming album, This Is A Photograph, out May 13th on Dead Oceans. The signature hopefulness that has characterized all of Morby’s sonic journeys over his previous six albums remains throughout This Is A Photograph. On “A Random Act of Kindness” he ruminates … Read more
Blake Babies were formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts. The three primary members were John Strohm, Freda Love, and Juliana Hatfield. They recorded three albums before splitting up in 1991. They reformed to record a new album in 1999, and again in 2016. If you were going to own a Blake Babies album this is … Read more
Wilco have announced their new album, Cruel Country, out May 27th via dBpm Records and present their new single, “Falling Apart (Right Now).” Cruel Country, a substantial two-disc exploratory work, arrives the same weekend as the band’s beloved Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where they will perform the album for the first time. … Read more
Mister GoblinBunnyExploding In Sounds Records [2022] Sam Goblin (Two Inch Astronaut) returns with his third long player under the Mister Goblin moniker titled Bunny. The album is the quick follow up to last year’s Headphone Approved record, Four People In An Elevator And One Of Them Is The Devil, and now firmly roots Mister Goblin … Read more
Curse of LonoPeople In CarsSubmarine Cat Music [2022] The path to wrapping your head around the London band Curse of Lono and its third album, People In Cars, is nothing if not an invitation to cultural literacy. The band’s name comes from an obscure Hunter S. Thompson book based on his adventures in Hawaii, while … Read more
Kurt Vile(watch my moves)Verve Records [2022] (watch my moves), the ninth studio album from Kurt Vile if you include his collaboration with Courtney Barnett on 2017’s Lotta Sea Lice, finds the Philadelphia-based folk/rock singer/songwriter guitarist in now familiar territory. A traditionally laid-back creator of jangly guitar rock, Vile used some of the pandemic shutdown to … Read more
Momma—the Brooklyn-based band led by singers/guitarists Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten—will release their new album Household Name on July 1st, 2022 via Polyvinyl Records. Co-written with Momma’s Aron Kobayashi Ritch (whose indelible guitar riff serves as the song’s foundation), the album’s fuzzed-out single “Speeding 72″ details a fast burning romance between two kids who meet … Read more
King Gizzard & The Lizard WizardOmnium GatherumKGLW [2022] Over the last decade, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have followed their muse wherever it happens to take them. From their early garage punk records and psychedelic trips to their latter-day excursions in prog rock, thrash metal, microtonal experiments, and electronica, the band is never afraid … Read more
Christian Lee HutsonQuittersANTI- [2022] In the songs from his ANTI-Records debut, 2020’s Beginners, modern folk/rock singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson wrote songs that looked back to one’s formative years and experiences, the memories and disappointments that shape the person you become. In his follow-up, Hutson seeks to make sense of the events that followed, sorting one’s … Read more
Psychedelic Porn CrumpetsNight GnomesMarathon Artists [2022] From the outside looking in, the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have been a band that I’ve always had interest in but have never pursued. Today that changes with the release of their 5th album Night Gnomes. Hailing from Australia (which has become an incredible psychedelic hotspot over the years) the … Read more
FonFon RuCollapse Of The Silver BridgeRepeating Cloud Records [2022] The sophomore album from Portland, Maine, post-punkers FonFon Ru is full of energy as it covers multiple sounds of the genre while being extremely focused. Collapse Of The Silver Bridge prominently features vocalist/guitarist Harry James, as his unique sounding voice drives each of the eight tracks … Read more
WeezerSZNZ: SpringCrush Music/Atlantic Records [2022] Even if you haven’t loved every step on the journey with Weezer, you have to be impressed by composer/bandleader Rivers Cuomo’s work ethic and high-quality output. Frankly, I was less than enamored with the mega-buzz that accompanied the band’s cover of “Africa” by Toto than say, the original the first … Read more
Friend Club Records · Curtail – Blue Violet We are excited today to premiere a new track from Akron, Ohio’s Curtail. “Blue Violet” is from their forthcoming new album, When The Sway Sets, which is set to release May 13th via Friend Club Records. The band are veterans of the DIY-indie/emo community and feature Jerry … Read more
This Friday, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will release their new album, Omnium Gatherum. Today, they present one of its singles, “Kepler-22b.” “Kepler-22b” samples Barney Mcall’s “Yemaya One,” and the accompanying video directed by Alex McLaren reflects its vibrant, electric instrumentation. “I actually found Barney’s record at a store in New York,” says Cook … Read more
Jack WhiteFear Of The DawnThird Man Records [2022] There’s a moment in the 2008 guitar rock doc “It Might Get Loud,” featuring Jack White, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and U2’s The Edge, when Page starts to play his rock hit classic “Whole Lotta Love,” and the other two’s cool demeanor cracks as fan boy … Read more
Here is the new single/video for “Rock Bottom” from Kevin Morby, the second single from This Is A Photograph, out May 13th on Dead Oceans. Morby wrote much of this album in Memphis, moving into the Peabody Hotel and spending his days paying tribute and genuflecting to the dreamers he admired. The apparitions that filled … Read more
Tim KasherMiddling Age15 Passenger Records [2022] “What a shitty thing to say; the good die young.” is a line out of the track “The John Jouberts” from Tim Kasher’s fourth solo record Middling Age. The frontman for Cursive and The Good Life sums up his new outing perfectly in that line, as this record explores … Read more
Good GriefShake Your FaithEverything Sucks Music/HHBTM Records [2022] Liverpool band Good Grief formed in 2012 by guitarist/vocalist Will Fitzpatrick, bassist/vocalist Paul Abbott and drummer Matiss Dale. The band released a handful of singles until around 2015 when the group became more inactive minus a few occasional dates playing out. Good Grief fully reactivated in 2018, … Read more
