Last night Julien Baker & TORRES debuted a new song ‘Bottom of a Bottle’ on The Daily Show. The track is off the duo’s forthcoming release Send A Prayer My Way, out on April 18. They also sat down with host Michael Kosta to chat about varied topics including the upcoming album, their creative process, and of course their love of dogs. Send A Prayer My Way has been in...
The Hard Quartet – Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White – return with a brand new digital two-song single. The elegant Kelly-led shredder ‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ was recorded last July in NYC, while the sprawling flip, ‘Coreopsis Trail,’ is an unreleased track from the S/T album sessions. The video for ‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ was directed by Kevin Spanky Long. Watch below! “‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ is a credo that states that...
Car Seat Headrest announce The Scholars, a bold new rock opera that isn’t just a new chapter for the premiere standard bearers of young internet rockers but also a spiritual rebirth, and the band’s first studio album in five years. Watch ‘Gethsemane,’ an 11-minute, multi-part epic (directed by Andrew Wonder) that conveys the spiritual journey and yearning at the heart of the new album. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the...
Out now, Nothing is the third album by DARKSIDE and the first that the group – founded by Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington – have completed as a trio with new drummer Tlacael Esparza. Nothing is nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to...
Out today, Tears of Injustice is the acoustic version of Mdou Moctar’s Funeral for Justice. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror image to the blistering original. The band has also shared a new live session ‘The Agadez Folders: Live at Mdou’s House’, premiering at 4pm today AEDT. The 20-minute performance features three songs – ‘Takoba,’ ‘Modern Slaves,’ and ‘Funeral For Justice’ – filmed...
Julien Baker & TORRES release new single ‘Tuesday’, offering another glimpse into their forthcoming collaborative album Send a Prayer My Way, out April 18. With a stripped-back Americana sound, the TORRES-fronted song centres on trying to overcome and heal from the guilt, shame and religious abuse that so many people experience discovering their identity and growing up Queer. Send A Prayer My Way has been in the works since Baker and TORRES played their first...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released his newest single ‘No Front Teeth’ featuring New Zealand folk singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. The track is full of tension bolstered by time changes throughout the song and the haunting, ethereal chorus driven by Harding’s vocals. The music video is directed by Cody Critcheloe and is a fever dream-unhinged, sexually charged, hilarious and riveting, leaving the viewer questioning what is real and what is an aberration. It features Hadreas, Harding and longtime Perfume Genius band member...
Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — release their second album Phonetics On and On, 11 songs which experiment with space and texture, all while maintaining a pop song at the core. These are songs to dance to. Produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, Horsegirl’s original and sonic home, Phonetics On and On is...
Out March 14th, Halo on the Inside is the new album by Chicago’s Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr). It is Fohr’s boldest work to date – warped and transcendent, darkly romantic and thrillingly alien. Hear the anthemic new single ‘Canopy of Eden’, and watch the Dana Trippe-directed music video below! “Somehow, on a day in the not too distant past, I ended up on a speedboat jutting toward a place called Canopy...
DARKSIDE release new track ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’, taken from their forthcoming album Nothing, out February 28th. In just under seven minutes, ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’ spans almost as many decades. The wind whispers, Harrington’s guitar scythes minimally over Jaar’s falsetto, now slathered in echo and reverb. Then a middle suite sounds almost like a funkier Byrds circa Sweetheart of the Rodeo. It’s followed by a gentle breakdown where agile guitars...
After dropping hints for months and following the release of their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, Julien Baker & TORRES are excited to announce their debut album Send a Prayer My Way, coming out April 18th. The album has been in the works since the two played their first show together in 2016 and at the end one singer turned to the other and said, “You know, we should make a country album.” This...
On February 28, Mdou Moctar will release Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice. Sharing new single ‘Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)’, out now. The song – the title track of Funeral for Justice and something of a thematic lynchpin for the band’s last year of work – has been dramatically reshaped for Tears. The original’s tight arrangement and full-blast guitar riff have been set aside in favour of an arrangement that feels loose, sprawling, and improvisational....
Last fall, when Circuit des Yeux (aka CdY, aka Haley Fohr) released ‘God Dick’, she described the song as a passage leading from the past toward things to come. “It served a chrysalis function,” wrote Fohr. “A love banshee bursting through porcelain skin one hair at a time until, finally, the beast within is fully on display.” Out March 14th, Halo on the Inside is the product of that metamorphosis. It is the butterfly and the beast...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) announces his new album Glory, coming out March 28th. Glory was produced by Blake Mills and marks the 7th studio album in his immaculate body of work. Hadreas shares the first single ‘It’s a Mirror’, and its companion music video directed by Cody Critchloe. The two artists first collaborated on the music video for Perfume Genius’ groundbreaking ‘Queen’. Watch below! “I wake up overwhelmed even when...
After playing the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Julien Baker & TORRES share the official video for their debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’, directed by Caity Arthur and shot in collaboration with the queer country dance party Stud Country. Watch below! The clip features original choreography by Stud Country’s co-founder Sean Monaghan and star members of the Stud Country community. “We were so excited to cast...
Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — unveil the new single/video, ‘Switch Over,’ from their upcoming second album, Phonetics On and On, out February 14th. ‘Switch Over’ feels almost motorik in its pulse as the track dances back and forth between Cheng and Lowenstein’s swapping vocals. The ‘Switch Over’ video was directed by Guy Kozak, who came to the band...
