Lou Barlow And Company – “Only Fading” & “Sacrifice”
Indie rock lifer Lou Barlow is in a whole mess of active bands: Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, the newly reunited Folk Implosion. Barlow also makes solo music; he released the album Continue Reading
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Spiral Stairs – “Pressure Drop”
Scott Kannberg is back with a new Spiral Stairs album, the successor to 2019’s We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized. It’s called Medley Attack!! and it’s out in July. (That name is Continue Reading
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Watch The Smile Debut New Song “Friend Of A Friend”
Kicking off their European tour on May 16 in Zagreb, Croatia, the Smile (aka Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, plus Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner) debuted a new song Continue Reading
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Sound Of Ceres – “The Glare”
Back in 2016, former members of Candy Claws started a new New York-based art-pop project called Sound Of Ceres. Next month, Sound Of Ceres will release their third album Emerald Continue Reading
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Plague Skater’s New psep EP Is A Compact Lo-Fi Tour De Force
New Jersey lo-fi rockers Plague Skater’s Plague Skater II was one of my favorite albums of last year. Today the self-professed “scuzz pop” act is back with another efficiently titled Continue Reading
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OSEES – “Funeral Solution”
Madcap mastermind John Dwyer has kept up his non-stop string of releases over the past year with albums from projects like Moon Drenched and Gong Splat, which Dwyer made with Continue Reading
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felicita – “Cluck” (Feat. Kero Kero Bonito)
Today, PC Music have dropped a new compilation called Volume 3, collecting “hits from 2018-2021 alongside upcoming, unreleased and unreleasable music.” One of those finds felicita teaming up with fellow Continue Reading
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Stream The Smile’s Debut Album A Light For Attracting Attention And Our Accompanying Podcast
The Smile’s debut sounds a lot like Radiohead, but the promo campaign leading up to it has been about as far from a Radiohead rollout as you can get. Rather Continue Reading
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Jennifer Vanilla – “Body Music”
It’s been a bit since we’ve heard from Jennifer Vanilla, the performance art/music project from former Ava Luna member Becca Kauffman. Their debut EP, the sultry and silly J.E.N.N.I.F.E.R. EP, Continue Reading
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Stream Ovlov Frontman Steve Hartlett’s New Experimental Excursion 1/2
Last year’s Buds was another ridiculously solid release from the fuzzed-out Connecticut indie band Ovlov. Today that group’s singer and guitarist Steve Hartlett is back with a solo album that Continue Reading
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Jack Harlow, IDK, Method Man and More – New Hip-Hop Projects This Week
Hip-hop continues to heat things up in May in the form of new music releases. This week, a 2020 XXL Freshman drops an album that the internet has been buzzing about Continue Reading
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Stream Future’s New Album I NEVER LIKED YOU Feat. Drake, Kanye, Gunna, & More
Future is back with I NEVER LIKED YOU, his first new album since his 2020 double-dip High Off Life and Pluto x Baby Pluto with Lil Uzi Vert. The rollout Continue Reading
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Here Are 10 of the Best Hip-Hop Reality TV Shows Ranked
Rappers are responsible for some of the greatest moments in reality TV history. Whether these shows ran for two seasons or 12, esteemed faces in hip-hop have helped define what Continue Reading
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Kikagaku Moyo – “Gomugomu”
Kikagaku Moyo announced their fifth and final album Kumoyo Island with the soaring shapeshifter “Cardboard Pile.” The Japanese psych monsters’ next single is a bit more compact and low-key. “Gomugomu,” Continue Reading
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Shearwater – “Aqaba”
Fun fact: Jonathan Melberg’s dramatic art-rock project Shearwater was the first band ever to land two different LPs in Stereogum’s Album Of The Week column. Right now, Meiburg is preparing Continue Reading
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Nine Of Swords – “WITH HELP”
The last time we heard from Nine Of Swords was back in 2016 when the released the visceral and bruised You Will Never Die, home to one of the most Continue Reading
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Friendship – “Ugly Little Victory”
Friendship, the Philadelphia band led by Dan Wriggins, have a couple albums under their belts already, including 2017’s Shock Out Of Season and 2019’s Dreamin’, both of which were released Continue Reading
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Rico Nasty – “Vaderz” (Feat. Bktherula)
Rico Nasty released her excellent album Nightmare Vacation at the end of 2020, and since then, she’s been steadily cranking out one-off singles: “Magic,” “Buss,” the Flo Milli collab “Money.” Continue Reading
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Cardi B Teams With Kay Flock For New Bronx Drill Anthem “Shake It”
Before she became a pop star, Cardi B came up by spitting gang shit over hard beats in YouTube videos. Cardi’s pre-“Bodak Yellow” music isn’t that far removed from the Continue Reading
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Stream Straw Man Army’s Great New Post-Punk Album SOS
The New York duo Straw Man Army make a sparse, driven form of post-punk that recalls the DIY severity of underground greats like the Ex. Both members of Straw Man Continue Reading
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