Philadelphia-based Remember Sports will release their fourth album, Like a Stone, on April 23rd on Father/Daughter Records. The 12-song offering contains some of the smartest performances and arrangements in contemporary indie rock, maintaining the warmth and immediacy that made the quartet so beloved when they first connected years ago. Taking a multi-instrumental approach, the band … Read more
London-based band Dry Cleaning – Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals) – announce their debut album, New Long Leg, out April 2nd on 4AD, and present a new single/video, “Strong Feelings.” Buoyed by the universal acclaim they received for 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinksand Sweet Princess, … Read more
Where once was Superwolf, now roam Superwolves, the new album of Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, out digitally April 30th on Drag City and available physically on June 18th. Today marks the arrival of their new single “Hall of Death.” Sweeney and Will Oldham (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) wrote “Hall Of Death” with visionary Tuareg guitarist and producer Ahmoudou Madassane. The song features Oldham and Sweeney in their traditional … Read more
Acclaimed musician, singer, and songwriter Jay Gonzalez has announced the upcoming release of his new album. Back To The Hive arrives everywhere via Gonzalez’s own Middlebrow Records on Friday, March 5th. Perhaps best known for his role as guitarist/keyboard player with the Drive-By Truckers, Gonzalez is heralding Back To The Hive with an official video … Read more
Death From Above 1979 have announced a new album and new video. The single is “One + One” and it is an impressive return for the duo of Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger. The group’s fourth record is titled Is 4 Lovers and arrives March 26th. The album is the follow-up to 2017’s Outrage! “‘One … Read more
Narrow Head have a brand new video for “Hard To Swallow” from their rocking sophomore album 12th House Rock, which is out now via Run For Cover Records. Jacob Duarte from the band explains a bit more about the new video: “We shot the video in the middle of nowhere Texas at this insane house … Read more
Ten years since the release of their debut album, New Brigade, Copenhagen’s Iceage release “The Holding Hand.” It’s the band’s debut single/video for new label, Mexican Summer. Throughout the track, romance and desire are feelings that stretch torturously — a race without a finish line. Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s voice crawls over slow-marching percussion and glittering … Read more
Hand Habits, the project of Meg Duffy (they/them), announces dirt EP with the release of a video for its lead single “4th of july.” dirt finds the songwriter exploring themes of growth and finding ways to let go of the parts of their past that no longer serve them. It illuminates Duffy’s attempts to evolve beyond the confines of their past. Of … Read more
The Besnard Lakes have a new video for “Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again,” from their just released record The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (January 29). They share, “the track started as an Oggy Film Song. A skeletal version of the song had been in the Besnard vault … Read more
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have released a new track called “O.N.E.”, accompanied by a new music video by Alex McClaren. The video was shot remotely during Melbourne’s second pandemic-related lockdown, and features a combination of stop motion and collage elements. “King Gizzard’s new album (y’all know what it’s called) is definitely not coming … Read more
Squid will a band to watch for sure! Over the last eighteen months, Squid has become one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the UK. They have finally announced their eagerly awaited debut album, Bright Green Field, out May 7th on Warp Records, with this fantastic lead single/video, “Narrator” feat. Martha Skye Murphy. … Read more
French power trio Lizzard has revealed their new video for “Blue Moon.” The track is featured on the band’s impending new full-length “Eroded”, set for release on February 19th via Pelagic Records. You can pre-order the album HERE.
The difference between being 18 and 24 isn’t the world, but at the same time, it is. The Obsessives’ sound has clearly grown up with them, and it’s apparent from one listen to their upcoming EP, Monastery, out February 12 on Memory Music. Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip gets the absolute best out of the Philadelphia-based … Read more
L.A. Witch roars into 2021 with an incredible video for “Motorcycle Boy” off their new album, Play With Fire, that’s out now on Suicide Squeeze Records. “The song is inspired by Moto Boys like Mickey Rourke, Marlon Brando, and Steve McQueen, so of course we took a lot of inspiration from our favorite biker movies like The Wild One, Rumble Fish, On any … Read more
Next up on Levitation Sessions: Dead Meadow – Live from The Pillars of God. The show premieres at 7PM CT on Saturday, February 20 and after checking out the video it looks to be another psych rock experience. In Fall 2020, Dead Meadow convened at Camp Mozumdar, hidden away in the mountains above Los Angeles, … Read more
2020 was going to be the year of Van Weezer — the big riffs rock album Weezer made as an homage to the metal bands they loved growing up — until, thanks to the global pandemic, it suddenly wasn’t. The entire time, however, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo was busy at the piano, writing a very … Read more
Australian singer/songwriter Michael Beach is an architect of a sound that’s both well-built and ramshackle, straightforward and indeterminably complex, out of the norm yet familiar in all the best ways. Today he returns with an epic fourth album that explores the duality of the human condition. It encapsulates human futility, passion, desire, anger, frustration, and … Read more
Ian Sweet – the musical project of Jilian Medford – has officially announced her first album for Polyvinyl, Show Me How You Disappear, out March 5th. Dizzying and enthralling, Show Me How You Disappear is the sound of someone coming apart and putting themselves back together — the moment an old mantra, repeated into the … Read more
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have shared a new video for “The Only One” from Sideways To New Italy, their sophomore album released last year. Directed by Mike Ridley, the video for fan-favorite, “The Only One” follows the beloved character of Pie Man as he wanders the streets of the Northern-Melbourne suburbs. “The places are real, … Read more
Already earning an avalanche of critical acclaim and multiple placements on “Artists To Watch” lists for 2021, Claud has released the third track from their forthcoming debut album. “Cuff Your Jeans”, is another constructed lovelorn pop gem. Claud’s debut album, Super Monster, will be released on February 12th via Saddest Factory Records. Says Claud of … Read more
Kiwi Jr. is sharing an official video for “Waiting in Line,” a new offering and highlight from Cooler Returns, their forthcoming album. The video was directed by Laura-Lynn Petrick and captures a day in the life of the band in their homebase of Toronto, Ontario. “We like the candid and casual approach of director Laura-Lynn’s previous videos, including Weyes … Read more
Tigers Jaw recently released a video for their new single “Hesitation,” off their forthcoming album, I Won’t Care How You Remember Me, due out on March 5th via Hopeless Records. Directed by Shane Moran (who came of age as guitarist/art director of the band Title Fight and more recently has produced visual works for New York-based Supreme), the … Read more
Let us introduce you to the indie rock of Philadelphia’s Honeyjar. The group draws on a deep well of ’70s soft rock influences and combines them with modern rock and pop sensibility. It is easy to hear a Fleetwood Mac and Head And The Heart groove running throughout their debut Moonbeam which is officially out … Read more
Sub Pop has signed the UK band TV Priest and will release Uppers, their full-length debut on CD/LP/CS/DSPs worldwide February 5th, 2021. In celebration of this news, Sub Pop shared the official video for “Decoration,” the album’s lead single, directed by Joe Wheatley. Sub Pop became fans of TV Priest’s politically urgent, mechanical, subtly humorous (and self-deprecating) post-punk following … Read more
Maxïmo Park have shared a new song with “I Don’t Know What I’m Doing”, from upcoming new album “Nature Always Wins”, along with news of an extensive run of album launch shows. The run of album launch shows will kick off in February, in conjunction with some of the country’s best-loved record stores. Tickets will … Read more