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
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
Let the excitement build as “Cardboard Pile” is the first track from Kumoyo Island; the fifth studio album & said to be the last from Kikagaku Moyo. The full album will be released digitally on May 6th 2022, with vinyl available for pre-order. Reconvening at Tsubame Studios in Asakusabashi, Tokyo, where their earliest material had … Read more
Drive-By Truckers have announced the release of their 14th studio album, Welcome 2 Club XIII, due via ATO Records on Friday, June 3. Welcome 2 Club XIII is heralded by today’s release of the title track, “Welcome 2 Club XIII,” available for streaming and download; the track – which pays homage to the Muscle Shoals … Read more
Porridge Radio return today with the new single/video, “The Rip,” taken from their forthcoming third studio album, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, out May 20th on Secretly Canadian. Following lead single “Back To The Radio,” “The Rip” hums with widescreen distortion and continues Porridge Radio’s streak of pairing rousing alt-rock with powerful visuals … Read more
Florist announce their new self-titled album, out July 29th on Double Double Whammy. Along with the album announcement the band has shared a video for the album’s lead single, “Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning),” a poignant, guitar-centric meditation that carries on Sprague’s concern with love, loss and the natural world. “She’s in the birdsong/She won’t … Read more
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard release “Magenta Mountain,” a new track/video from their forthcoming album, Omnium Gatherum, which will be released April 22nd via the band’s KGLW label, and is available for pre-order now. It follows the majestic lead single, “The Dripping Tap.” Some tracks on Omnium Gatherum return to the synth-psych visions of … Read more
Late December 2020 found Soul Glo holed away in an unfinished warehouse, beginning to find drum tones for their newly released full length, Diaspora Problems. They had just begun to accept that they would be in talks with Epitaph Records, and that it was likely they were going to go with the label as they … Read more
Toro y Moi, a.k.a Chaz Bear shares another offering from his forthcoming album MAHAL, due April 29th via Dead Oceans. “Déjà Vu” arrives with a Justin Morris-directed video that begins with the viewer entering a white stretch limousine that acts as a portal to dreamlike vignettes of Bear, culminating in a montage of him traveling … Read more
Toronto punk band PUP—comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski—will release their aptly titled fourth album, THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND, next week on April 1. Following the previously released “Waiting,” “Robot Writes A Love Song, and “Matilda,” PUP shares one last single before the entire album drops next week. Accompanied by … Read more
Soccer Mommy announces her new full-length album, Sometimes, Forever which will be released on June 24th via Loma Vista Recordings. Produced by Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never, this album cements Sophie Allison’s status as one of the most gifted songwriters making rock music right now. It sees Allison once again tapping into the turn-of-the-millenium … Read more
Papercuts, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason Quever, shares the single / video “Palm Sunday” from his forthcoming album, Past Life Regression, due April 1 on Slumberland and on Labelman in Europe. The band will tour Europe & the UK in April with Still Corners – see full dates below. “Palm Sunday” is … Read more
Pattern-Seeking Animals, the California-based band featuring Ted Leonard (lead vocals & guitars), Jimmy Keegan (drums & vocals), Dave Meros (bass) and John Boegehold (keyboards), have announced the band’s third studio album titled Only Passing Through, on April 1st, 2022 through InsideOutMusic. The album is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2020 release Prehensile Tales. … Read more
WE, is the sixth studio album by Arcade Fire, which is be released on May 6, 2022 via Columbia Records. WE’s arrival is preceded by first single “The Lightning I, II,” available now across digital platforms – and as a video directed by Emily Kai Bock. Produced by Nigel Godrich, Win & Régine, and recorded … Read more
Father John Misty has released the video for his latest single, “Goodbye Mr. Blue,” the bittersweet and tender new single from his forthcoming album Chloë and the Next 20th Century. , The official video was directed by Noel Paul (“Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”), which is an elliptical portrait of a family reunion, and was shot … Read more
Bay Area-based Monophonics announced their upcoming full-length Sage Motel, out May 13th via Colemine Records. The psychedelic soul band, Monophonics, cordially invites you to attend the grand re-opening of the once thriving, once vibrant establishment, the legendary Sage Motel. A place where folks experience the highs and lows of human existence. A place where big … Read more
Two of Australia’s finest – Tropical Fuck Storm and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – digitally release a joint EP, Satanic Slumber Party, via Joyful Noise Recordings, and share a video for one of its tracks, “Satanic Slumber Party Part 2 (Midnight In Sodom).” The EP will receive a vinyl release at a later … Read more
Kevin Morby announces This Is A Photograph, his new album, out May 13th on Dead Oceans, and shares its title track and accompanying video. Additionally, Morby has announced tour dates spanning the globe (see dates below). This Is A Photograph, Morby’s 7th album, finds him making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood … Read more
Here is a brand-new video for the Pavement B-side “Harness Your Hopes,” directed by Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) and starring Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets). The song is drawn from the Spit on a Stranger EP, which Matador will reissue as a 12” on April 8th alongside the release of Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal. A bit … Read more
Chicago trio Horsegirl have announced their debut record, Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd on Matador, a summer tour, and present charged lead single/video, “Anti-glory.” Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) – the best friends comprising Horsegirl – do everything collectively, from songwriting to trading vocal duties and … Read more
On May 20th, Sub Pop will release the debut album from Weird Nightmare, the electrifying new project from METZ guitarist and singer Alex Edkins. Weird Nightmare showcases a new side of Edkins’ already-established songwriting, with a raw, sugary blast of distorted pop. The new album exhibits all of his main band’s bite with an unexpected, … Read more
To the Ends of the Earth is the fourth studio album by the Raleigh-based band Thirsty Curses. The band recorded most of the album at frontman Wilson Getchell’s home studio in Raleigh, NC over the summer of 2021. The band also spent a day in Bias Studios in Northern Virginia where they recorded three songs … Read more
Jeanines are announcing their sophomore LP, Don’t Wait For A Sign, and share the lead single/video titled “Any Day Now.” The track clocks in well under two minutes long but will be stuck in your head after the first listen.” Jeanines’ Don’t Wait For A Sign is due April 22nd, 2022 via Slumberland Records. You … Read more
Australia’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever release a new track/video, “Tidal River,” from their forthcoming album, Endless Rooms, out May 6th on Sub Pop. Rolling Blackouts C.F. have joined an Australian lineage of bands bold enough to marry the country’s evocative landscapes with the urban romance, passions and politics of its characters. Today’s propulsive “Tidal River,” … Read more
The title of The Stroppies’ newest LP, Levity, serves as a creative statement of intent and an acknowledgment of the dichotomy between the music they have made and the conditions in which they were produced. For a group that started over an initial idea to “create open ended music, quickly and haphazardly”, the logistical challenges … Read more