Bay Area band, Kids On A Crime Spree, have a new video for “Goods Get Got.” The track is included on their new album, Fall In Love Not In Line, which is out on 1/21 via Slumberland Records. It’s been over a decade since We Love You So Bad was released, the Bay Area indie … Read more
El Ten Eleven, the SoCal duo whose 2020 triple-LP Tautology series presciently and ambitiously put the arc of human life to music, return with a joyously unrestrained six-song album, New Year’s Eve (March 4, Joyful Noise Recordings). “New Year’s Eve is a reference to guarded optimism about what is to come. At the time, it seemed like our national divisiveness … Read more
Black Country, New Road have shared a video for their latest single “Concorde”, the third track to be taken from their anticipated second album, Ants From Up There, which will be released on February 4th via Ninja Tune. The new video was directed by Maxim Kelly and saw the band collaborate heavily with independent production … Read more
SPUD is the Synth-pop solo project of Holly Findlay, bass player of Melbourne’s Stoner/Rock quartet Stonefield. “Spend” is their new video by Millar Wileman and the single is on SPUD’s self-titled EP which was written and recorded in Holly’s bedroom during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic and mixed by Traffik Island’s Zak Olsen. Inspired by the … Read more
Flying Dream 1 is a change in pace from the elbow’s previous, UK Number One album, Giants of All Sizes, with a deliberately quieter and more contemplative musical tone, informed by the recording process as lead singer Guy Garvey explains: “We don’t phone each other for a chat. We don’t talk about life outside the … Read more
Young Guv, aka songwriter Ben Cook, recently announced his new double album, GUV III & IV, with the first installment, GUV III, due out March 11th from Run For Cover Records (and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada). Today he’s back with the album’s second single “Only Wanna See U Tonight.” GUV III is packed front … Read more
The Gulps are pleased to present the official video for “Stuck In The City”; their new single out on Alan McGee’s It’s Creation Baby imprint. Directed by Sandra Crilo and shot around Soho over Summer 2021, the video follows a day-in-the-life of the band as they immerse themselves in the diverse cultural riches of one … Read more
Bloc Party announced details of their forthcoming sixth studio album Alpha Games, out April 29th 2022 via Infectious / BMG. Alpha Games is the band’s first studio album since 2016’s Hymns. Alongside the album announcement, Bloc Party have shared new single “Traps” as the first taste of the upcoming record. Produced by Nick Launay and … Read more
Erin Rae has announced, Lighten Up her anticipated new album which was produced by Jonathan Wilson and features guest appearance from Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Kevin Morby. The album will be released on Feb 4, 2022, via Thirty Tigers. Rae debuted this video for her first official single from the album, “Modern Woman.” The … Read more
Peter Doherty, now resident in Normandy the land of Calvados and camembert, has teamed up with composer/producer Frédéric Lo, and created a wonderful nouvelle vague slice of pop entitled ‘The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime’, which will be released as a single through the Strap Originals label today. “The Fantasy Life of Poetry & … Read more
LOOP have announced their first album in 32 years and shared the video for new track “Halo.” Sonancy will be released via Cooking Vinyl on March 11, 2022. Formed in South London in the mid-1980s, LOOP blazed a trail with their potent mix of motorik beats and heavy guitar riffs, recording a trio of brilliant … Read more
As the release of Observatory approaches on December 10, 2021 via Sub Pop, the debut album by AEON STATION, Kevin Whelan (one of the main songwriters of iconic indie rock band The Wrens) has offered a third glimpse into the musical world he has created with new single and video “Fade.” “I wrote this song … Read more
Jack White has announced the upcoming release of two brand new albums – his first new full-length collections in over four years. FEAR OF THE DAWN arrives everywhere via Third Man Records on April 8, 2022 and ENTERING HEAVEN ALIVE will follow on July 22, 2022. FEAR OF THE DAWN & ENTERING HEAVEN ALIVE are … Read more
“Car Crash” sees IDLES operating free from constraints and unshackled from any notions of what an IDLES song should sound like. It chronicles frontman Joe Talbot’s own near-fatal experience behind the wheel, one of many stories of trauma, addiction, survival and recovery the band vividly bring to life on CRAWLER. Speaking about the track Talbot … Read more
San Francisco punk outfit Spiritual Cramp return with their first new music since late 2018, when they released a collection of recordings to date entitled Television via Deranged Records. This new EP, Here Comes More Bad News, was recorded with longtime collaborator Grace Coleman and captures the band at their best, having spent the interceding … Read more
Melbourne-based singer, songwriter, producer and accomplished stage actor Grace Cummings has released a new single and music video for “Up In Flames,” from her forthcoming, self-produced sophomore album. Storm Queen will be released on January 14th on ATO Records, and follows Cummings’ understated debut album Refuge Cove, which was released in 2019 via King Gizzard … Read more
Chicago-based composer, singer and improviser Ben LaMar Gay shares a new single and music video for “Aunt Lola and the Quail,” a song off his upcoming album Open Arms to Open Us, out November 19, 2021 on International Anthem / Nonesuch. It’s also been announced that on Tuesday, January 18, 2022t Ben LaMar Gay will … Read more
Formed in late 1995, Detroit group Broken Hearts Are Blue lived the dream of being a band and then life took over with college graduation, grad school, a move to Denver and every member looking at their own next step. The group released their debut, The Truth About Love, in 1997 and then it was … Read more
Check out the latest video from Ivan The Tolerable & His Elastic Band. “Indigo Blue” is taken from the upcoming album The Long Year which comes out on November 26th via Stolen Body Records. This is the 3rd track from the album which comes after the previously released Night Hospital. You can pre-order the album … Read more
“I Saw The Wheel” is the lead single from Heaven’s Just A Cloud, the debut and Headphone Approved album from Spirit Was, which is out on Danger Collective Records. You can order the album HERE.
Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Lucifer on the Sofa bottles the physical thrill of a band tearing up … Read more
Bambara recently announced their new mini-LP, Love on My Mind, and shared a video for opening single “Mythic Love” (featuring Bria Salmena). Already renowned for their sense of drama, Bambara have ratcheted up the theatrics once again with “Mythic Love,” bringing all of the hard-charging intensity of their celebrated Stray single “Serafina,” but leaving room … Read more
Ghost Woman is the project of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko. Today Ghost Woman is sharing a new single titled “Do You” via Full Time Hobby. On new cut “Do You,” Evan swaps out the garage-punk angst of Lost Echo’s EP for a more contemplative approach: “For the last EP I had just ended a long … Read more
Animal Collective returns with Time Skiffs. Its nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder. Harmonies so rich you want to … Read more
The Copyrights hail from a small college town in downstate Illinois called Carbondale. They formed in 2002, and quickly were embraced by the pop-punk community for their fun lyrics, big hooks, and infectious choruses. A year later, in 2003, they released their first album, We Didn’t Come Here to Die, which was produced by Mass … Read more