In August, Oakland indie-pop luminary Simi Sohota will release his new album as Healing Potpurri, Paradise. Co-produced by Sohota and Sean O’Hagan (The High Llamas, Stereolab), Paradise also features production Continue Reading
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Long Neck — the Jersey City Band To Watch fronted by Lily Mastrodimos — have announced a new album, Soft Animal, the follow-up to 2020’s World’s Strongest Dog. Mastrodimos recently Continue Reading
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Prolific Florida screamo greats Gillian Carter — a band, not a person — have been putting out records for 15 years, and they never seem to stop. Gillian Carter have Continue Reading
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At last, Post Malone’s fourth studio album twelve carat toothache is out for all to hear. The follow-up to 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding is the shortest album Posty has ever done Continue Reading
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Jessica Boudreaux (of Summer Cannibals) has teamed up with Adult Mom for a cover of “Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift’s Lover track that was co-written by St. Vincent and, much to Continue Reading
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For the better part of a decade, Adam Elliott bashed the drums and howled his lungs out as one third of the Columbus lo-fi pop-rock band Times New Viking, leading Continue Reading
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Earlier this month, Snow Ellet released “19,” the lead single from a new EP, Glory Days, the follow-up to last year’s debut Suburban Indie Rock Star, which made it onto Continue Reading
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A couple of months ago, as Arcade Fire prepared to release their new album WE, longtime member Will Butler announced that he’d left the band after they’d finished recording the Continue Reading
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Bruce Hornsby, the ’80s hitmaker and adventurously laid-back elder statesman, has a new album out in the world. After working with indie rockers like Bon Iver and the National in Continue Reading
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Back in March, Orlando Higginbottom announced he’d released the first Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs album in 10 years, When The Lights Go. So far, we’ve heard two songs from it: Continue Reading
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Two of Stereogum’s Bands To Watch from recent years, the San Jose emo band awakebutstillinbed and the Columbus screamo unit For Your Health, are teaming up for a split EP Continue Reading
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Photos by Krystena PattonInterview by Jordan Edwards Since releasing "Warm on a Cold Night" in 2014, HONNE has built a huge fanbase with their catchy, moody pop songs and collaborations Continue Reading
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Suede (or, as they’re still technically called on this side of the pond, the London Suede) have announced Autofiction, their ninth studio album and first since 2018’s The Blue Hour. Continue Reading
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The hard, weathered Detroit underground rap veteran Boldy James has made some of the best records, in any genre, of the past few years, and he never stops working. One Continue Reading
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It takes a certain sense of vision to write a truly great old-school beat-you-up hardcore song, and the members of the Sydney band SPEED have that vision. Australia’s punk and Continue Reading
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Show & Prove: Nardo WickWords: Georgette ClineEditor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. Twenty years ago, Clipse’s “Grindin’” was the soundtrack Continue Reading
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Long before the streaming era made playlists king, the crowning attribute of a great album was no skips: the ability to play a project in its entirety without interruption. It's an elusive feat, Continue Reading
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Next month, Editrix are releasing a new album, Editrix II: Editrix Goes To Hell, the follow-up to their 2021 debut Tell Me I’m Bad. They shared “One Truck Gone” when Continue Reading
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Last fall, Wet returned with their latest album, Letter Blue. Now, they’re coming back with a new seven-song EP called Pink Room. It’s coming out as a part of Secretly Continue Reading
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The UK Artist To Watch Shygirl has been around for a while now. She’s released two EPs — including 2020’s Alias, one of that year’s best — and collaborated with Continue Reading
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