In December of 2019 Hot Snakes self-released a very limited-edition 7”, which they sold only at shows on their UK tour that month. The a-side to this single is the track “Checkmate” (which was digitally released on all DSPs by Sub Pop last year). “Not in Time,” the exclusive b-side to that single has been … Read more
Kansas City, KS based musician Kevin Morby is pleased to announce his new album, Sundowner, out October 16th on Dead Oceans, and today presents its lead single/video, “Campfire.” Following 2019’s Oh My God, “a secular rock record consumed by religious imagery, a pop art exploration of deep anxiety, and his most interesting work yet” (The FADER), Sundowner is Morby’s “attempt to put … Read more
William Elliott Whitmore will release his eight full-length album I’m With You on October 16 via Bloodshot Records. On his first release of original material since 2015’s Radium Death (ANTI-), Whitmore widens the horizon of his True North folksongs and twangy punked-up country, aided by his world-weary voice, country-baked banjo and hard-strummed guitar. The video for the first single “My Mind Can Be … Read more
The Flaming Lips have released another new song and video from their new album American Head set for release on September 11th via Warner Records. Once again, the video was filmed during quarantine. The track, “Mother Please Don’t Be Sad,” is actually autobiographical about when singer Wayne Coyne was robbed at gunpoint while working at a Long John Silvers as a teenager. … Read more
We just introduced you to Dayton, Ohio’s Kyleen Downes on Wednesday in our Artists of the Week feature and now we are super excited to premiere her new video today for the rocking “Give Up The Ghost!” The track is the excellent opening song on her recently released album Come On Sit Down. The video … Read more
Following the release of “Mr. Prism” earlier this month, their first single of 2020, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have now shared an adventure-filled clay animation video for the song. Created by Oliver Jones, who the band have collaborated with previously on their similarly kaleidoscopic videos, the video for ‘Mr. Prism’ takes us on a colourful journey through ‘sweetsville’, with … Read more
H.C. McEntire’s new song “Time, On Fire” builds and retracts with a driving pop drum beat, exploring movement like the ebb and flow of a river. It’s the perfect scene setter for Eno Axis, a new album McEntire aptly named after the river she lives beside, North Carolina’s sprawling Eno. McEntire describes “Time, On Fire” … Read more
Today, Lunchbox have shared their new animated “Dream Parade” video and have announced a new LP titled After School Special which is out on October 30, 2020 via Slumberland Records. Lunchbox’s Tim Brown and Donna McKean have been making records in their Oakland, California basement for two decades, inspired by 1960s/70s AM-radio pop and TV … Read more
Holy Motors new record Horse is the follow up to the group’s critically acclaimed 2018 debut album, Slow Sundown. Horse is due out October 16th on the Brooklyn indie, Wharf Cat Records. “Country Church” is the lead single and video for the forthcoming album. Though their music has often been tied to the traditions of … Read more
Here is METZ’s second single and video off Atlas Vending, “Hail Taxi.” If METZ’s current mission is to mirror the inevitable struggles of adulthood, they’ve successfully managed to tap into the conflicted relationship between rebellion and revelry with the song’s tactics of offsetting their signature bombast with anthemic melodic resolutions. “‘Hail Taxi’ is about looking back. The … Read more
On the heels of her most recent single, “Hours and Hours”, Alicia Bognanno shares “Prism,” a new pre-release single from SUGAREGG. Bognanno says “‘Prism’ is about the process of letting go and realizing which aspects continue to resonate as time passes.” Highlighting the song’s lyric “Can’t feel your pain like before now it’s just vaguely a … Read more
Logan Farmer has shared his new song and video “No One Owes Us Anything,” from his debut album, Still No Mother, out this Friday, August 21st via Western Vinyl. “Probably one of the more direct and climactic tracks on the album, ‘No One Owes Us Anything’ is about entitlement and the collective guilt we share … Read more
Optic Sink was just featured last week right here as Artists of The Week. The band’s frontwoman, Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) creates a musical paradox: an endeavor that doesn’t seem to belong to any particular time or place. She constructs with sounds that are synthesized and stripped down, yet bristling with urgency and brutalist emotion. With … Read more
“Some Of Us” is the brand-new single from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The single has an accompanying heat seeking video by staple Gizz film makers PHC. The lyrics were written by band member Cook Craig and sung by Stu Mackenzie. This is a poignant observational piece, and the concerns it raises are pertinent … Read more
Here is the official video for ‘Thrill’ by Future Islands from new album As Long As You Are which will be released October 9th on 4AD. You can pre-order the album, HERE. As Long As You Are also signals a new era for Future Islands. Drummer Mike Lowry officially joins as a fully-fledged member and … Read more
IDLES have shared “Model Village,” the latest single from their forthcoming LP ‘Ultra Mono’ (out Sept 25 via Partisan). “Model Village” decries the often-dangerous small-town fishbowl mentality, while its jet-powered instrumentation leans heavily into the band’s love of hip-hop (Kenny Beats provided additional programming on the album). The song is accompanied by an animated music … Read more
Following the rhythm-wracked single “Cavehead,” Frankie and the Witch Fingers are back with another new track that seeks to siphon from the cosmic horror and wonder that lurks between the fibres of space and time. As you prepare to cast off your mortal cage and summon the cruel cosmic gods of old, the tones of ‘Sweet Freak’ strike up, … Read more
Daniel Blumberg has shared a new video for “On&On&On&On&On,” the penultimate track from his new album On&On. It is the final rendition of the ever-evolving title song which appears four times across the arc of the record, each time cast in a new light. The self-directed video is the second in a series of films … Read more
Angel Olsen will release Whole New Mess, her first solo album since her 2012 debut, on August 28th via Jagjaguwar. A super intimate and vulnerable emotional portrait that shows her grappling with a period of personal tumult, Whole New Mess presents Olsen working through her open wounds and raw nerves with just a few guitars … Read more
Fontaines D.C. have shared a live favorite new song “Televised Mind” with its heaves, drones, and churns – a perfect embodiment of the bruised and battered. It is off their new LP, A Hero’s Death which was just released via Partisan).Fontaines D.C. – “Televised Mind” (dir. by Hugh Mulhern) Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten says … Read more
I think everyone can agree that COVID-19 has changed just about every aspect of our life. Countless industries have been impacted and had to adapt while the art of making music has not been immune. That brings us to today’s video premiere from Dayton, Ohio’s Smug Brothers! After a highly productive 2019 that saw the … Read more
UK trio, Doves will release their first new album in 11 years, The Universal Want, September 11 through IMPERIAL (US) + Virgin/EMI (UK). “Carousels” has already earned critical praise and solid airplay. Turning the page onto the next chapter of a three-decade career, The Universal Want follows the Mercury-nominated albums, Lost Souls (2000) and The … Read more
In anticipation of Serpentine Prison, the upcoming debut solo record from Matt Berninger—frontman of critically acclaimed group The National—Berninger released another track from the record, “Distant Axis,” alongside a video which he directed with his brother, Tom Berninger, and Chris Sgroi. Berninger explains about the track, which he wrote with The Walkmen’s Walter Martin, “I … Read more
Bright Eyes is back with a long awaited tenth album, and first since 2011, Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was, to be released on Dead Oceans on August 21st. The mesmerizing video for “Mariana Trench” was created by Art Camp. Speaking on the creation of the video, Art Camp states: “The production … Read more
Dublin 5-piece Silverbacks have a video for new single “Up The Nurses”, the latest track to be taken from their debut album Fad, produced by Girl Band (Rough Trade) bassist Daniel Fox. The band has been gaining some notice as they were recently featured in our Artists Of The Week and hit the Top 20 on the vinyl chart. Following swiftly … Read more