Peter Case The Midnight BroadcastBandaloop Music [2021] Singer/songwriter Peter Case’s first brush with mainstream rock star level fame came when his band the Plimsoul’s appeared in the 1983 cult classic movie, “Valley Girl,” which featured Nicholas Cage. The band was featured playing “A Million Miles Away,” their near-hit, and a couple other live songs in … Read more
N0V3L return with news of their debut full-length, NON-FICTION. The album functions as a treatise on modern existence and the perverse parameters within which it’s experienced. It’s a collection of agile, carefully-constructed post-punk, new wave and funk that’s been zapped and warped by an opioid overdose crisis, mental illness, populism, and the merciless onward march … Read more
Monsters don’t just exist in fairytales. They exist in split-second thoughts, sleepless nights, and corners of our mind we’d much rather blackout. That’s what Hit Like a Girl is confronting in their newest single, “Monsters.” Featuring guest vocals from Bartees Strange, it’s a moment of clarity that sees frontperson Nicolle Maroulis (they/them) snapping to the … Read more
Too Much Joy Mistakes Were MadePeople Suck Music [2021] Along with the quick arrival of life saving vaccines, you can count the return to recording by the late 80’s/early 90’s power pop/punk rockers Too Much Joy as something good that came from our year of COVID-19 shut-down. The Scarsdale, NY natives achieved a modicum of … Read more
Jay Gonzalez Back To The HiveMiddlebrow Records [2021] Athens, GA musician Jay Gonzalez joined Drive-By Truckers in 2008, filling in for Spooner Oldham on keyboards, and eventually sharing lead guitar duties with Mike Cooley to compensate for the absence of third guitarist Jason Isbell. Left to his own devices on this second full-length solo album, … Read more
Earlier this year, Squid announced the release of their much-anticipated debut album, Bright Green Field, out May 7th via Warp Records. Today, they present a new single, “Paddling,” which follows the release of “Narrator” (feat. Martha Skye Murphy), and announce an online performance as part of the official British Music Embassy SXSW showcase, airing Friday, … Read more
TFN is excited today to participate in the Cricketbows roll out of their new record, Raised On Rock And Roll, which is officially out on April 20, 2021. The newest video single from the album is today’s premiere with “Ohio Valley Springtime.” The Dayton, Ohio band is a throwback to the days when classic rock … Read more
The 26-minute Emigrant EP from Kishi Bashi is a lush bluegrass-inspired album referencing the brutal history and harsh climate of the American West. Arranged and recorded over the last year (in Emigrant, Montana), this EP serves as a time capsule of the 2020 condition as it meditates on the anxieties of the COVID-19 pandemic, the … Read more
Lake Street Dive ObviouslyNonesuch Records [2021] Lake Street Dive have carved out a unique place on the current musical landscape rooted in time honored pop music songcraft informed by classic R&B, with just the right dash of dance floor funk, delivered in jazzy arrangements that push the soulful lead vocals of Rachel Price to the … Read more
Night Beats, the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell, has shared “Ticket” – the latest single to be lifted from the incoming Outlaw R&B album due out May 7th on Fuzz Club Records. “Ticket” is a piece of thrashing, white-knuckle garage-psych and another insight into the raw, acid-fried sound that the band return to on … Read more
Ready for new music? We didn’t travel far for Dayton’s Nineteen Thirteen but the band has a much bigger sound that should be heard outside of the Gem City, Collate out of Portland is worth every minute you give their no wave groove and lastly the thought provoking new record from Hanalei out of Morro … Read more
PACKS were an increasingly visible presence in Toronto in the first part of 2020. A string of intriguing lo-fi singles, appearing once every month or so on Bandcamp through 2019 had begun to persuade people to take notice in their hometown, where the band were sharing stages with people like Squirrel Flower and Odetta Hartman, … Read more
GlittererLife Is Not A LessonANTI- [2021] Washington, D.C. resident and northeastern Pennsylvania native Ned Russin co-fronted Title Fight for many years before the band went on hiatus and Russin became Glitterer. So far, Glitterer has self-released two EP’s and his 2019 ANTI- debut LP Looking Through The Shades. That brings us to the rowdy and … Read more
King Gizzard & The Lizard WizardL.W.Flightless Records [2021] One thing that never was in question during this eternal pandemic lockdown was that Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard would crank out some more records. L.W. is the bands seventeenth studio album and is the bookend to last year’s K.G. release and considered Volume 3 … Read more
Melbourne, Australia’s CIVIC have announced that they will release their debut album, Future Forecast on March 26th via Flightless Records. The five-piece shared their latest single and video, “Tell The Papers” which was directed by Oscar O’Shea. This song is a ripper! You can pre-order the album HERE.
Har Mar Superstar RosevilleLove OnLine Records [2021] I’ll admit that the first and only time I saw Har Mar Superstar play live, opening for Afghan Whigs in Cincinnati in the Fall of 2017, more than once in the band’s nearly hour long set I wondered if it was a joke, that somebody had forgotten to … Read more
Hiss Golden Messenger just announced the forthcoming release of new studio album Quietly Blowing It, out June 25 via Merge Records. Written, arranged, and produced by bandleader/songwriter M.C. Taylor, Quietly Blowing It is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2019’s Terms of Surrender, which has been nominated for a 2021 GRAMMY® Award for Best Americana Album. … Read more
The Reds, Pinks & Purples second single from its new LP for Slumberland (on Tough Love in Europe) Uncommon Weather which is out April 9, 2021. “The Record Player and the Damage Done,” is a solid piece of DIY pop that echoes immaculate influences such as The Church, Felt and New Zealand’s Flying Nun label. … Read more
Julien BakerLittle OblivionsMatador Records [2021] “Until then I’ll split the difference / Between medicine and poison / Take what I can get away with / While it burns right through my stomach” is just one of the very first devastating lyrics you will hear from Julien Baker on the opening track “Hardline” from her third … Read more
Todd Rundgren: Clearly Human Live Virtual Tour; Cleveland, OH (via Chicago, IL) – Monday, February 22, 2021 Anyone who’s paid attention to the technology of live concert touring, would not be surprised to learn that long-time early adapter, rocker, and producer Todd Rundgren would be one of the first people to reimagine live music experiences … Read more
It is Bandcamp Friday so let’s get to business of finding new music as all three of the albums featured below are officially released today. The synth-driven rock from Columbus, Ohio’s Brain Damage is a great start followed by the Wire like Smirk from LA and lastly all the way from Paris is the instrumental … Read more
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis CarnageGoliath Records [2021] The one time I was able to see the Australian band Nick Cave & The Bad Seed play live, they delivered a set in the afternoon on the 1994 version of the Lollapalooza festival, the year Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins were the headliners. Fresh from the … Read more
Los Angeles band Hooveriii have released their new single “Cindy.” The track is taken off their forthcoming new album Water For The Frogs, due out April 9 via The Reverberation Appreciation Society label. Having originally been born as a solo drum machine project by Bert Hoover, Hooveriii (pronounced “Hoover Three”) has now evolved into its’ … Read more
Ska-punk pioneers The Mighty Mighty BossToneS will release their 11th studio record When God Was Great on May 7 via Hellcat Records. Co-produced by longtime collaborator Ted Hutt (The Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys) and Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong (Transplants, Jimmy Cliff), When God Was Great is the culmination of their extensive and all-embracing career and … Read more
No real need for an introduction here. New St. Vincent is out May 14, 2021. This is the Good Records Astroturf edition. You can find its details below. You can pre-order a copy HERE. GOOD RECORDS ASTROTURF EDITION-WARM WHITE MARBLE VINYL-LIMITED TO 1,000 NUMBERED COPIES Warm White Marble Vinyl11″x22″ Poster InsertComes with exclusive St. Vincent … Read more