Kim Gordon has continued her ongoing collaboration with Justin Raisen and teamed up with model home for ‘razzamatazz’, an electro-freak track of throbbing sub-basses and rotary sonics hovering below Gordon’s iconic whisper. Watch the music video made by p cain of model home below! model home is an experimental duo made up of Washington, DC-based artists Nappy Nappa and p cain. Known for their freewheeling and improvisational approach to sound...
The Hard Quartet announce their eponymous debut album, out October 4th, and release new single and video, ‘Rio’s Song’ out now. Watch below! “The ‘Rio’s Song’ video is The Hard Quartet’s homage to street rock in the hot afternoon and clowning around with lifer friends in downtown New York City. Director Jared Sherbert shot it guerrilla style on St Mark’s Place and in The International Bar on July 15 2024....
Last year, the members of Mdou Moctar convened in Niger to complete their then-unfinished album, Funeral For Justice, and to capture a series of live sets in the region surrounding Agadez, a historically important hub. Now released is the first of these sessions: The Agadez Folders: Live at Sultan’s Palace. It features Mdou Moctar performing a complete electric live set at the King’s Palace in the city’s centre. The band...
Philadelphia group Bardo Pond announce a much overdue reissue of Set and Setting (1999) to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. Out October 25th, the record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl. Watch a previously unseen video for the song ‘This Time (So Fucked)’ below! Set and Setting will be accompanied by a new double LP compilation, Melt Away, cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex...
To celebrate 10 years after its original release, Spoon reissue their beloved eighth album They Want My Soul on all digital platforms, with a 2xLP gatefold vinyl / 2xCD release to follow on November 8th. Along with the record’s original 10 tracks – including all-time Spoon classics ‘Inside Out’, ‘Do You’, and ‘Rent I Pay’ – They Want My Soul: Deluxe More Soul Edition features 11 demos and alternate versions, almost all of them previously unreleased....
The Hard Quartet is a band. But what is a band? A band, perhaps, can be thought of as a body, a corpus, in which physically discrete lifeforms comprise a chimera that shrieks with one voice. In this particular band, which is one of millions in the world today, four players selflessly merge, become musical, and emit rock ‘n’ roll that is familiar but new, warm but icy, melodic but...
Water From Your Eyes release MP3 Player 1, a four-song EP featuring covers of music by Adele, Al Green, Chumbawamba, and Third Eye Blind. The songs carry on a WFYE tradition established on 2021’s covers LP Somebody Else’s Songs – with Nate Amos and Rachel Brown casually knocking out skewed (and sometimes very earnest) takes on music they love. “These are covers that we made at the same time as we were finishing Everyone’s Crushed,” say the...
Ahead of her tour next month Kim Gordon releases new single ‘ECRP’, with an accompanying video once again featuring, this time as director, her daughter, Coco Gordon Moore. Watch below! In it, quick-cutting shots of a variety of New York street scenes augment the Justin Raisen-produced song’s disorienting sonics, as Gordon intones of “rumors of free speech” and “ashes on the nightstand”. Earlier this year, Gordon released her second solo album, The Collective, and also made her explosive solo late...
Mdou Moctar have released new single and video ‘Imouhar’, taken from the group’s forthcoming album, Funeral For Justice, out May 3rd on Matador / Remote Control. A hypnotic rock song building to a feverish crescendo, ‘Imouhar’ calls on the Tuareg people to which the band belong to preserve their Tamasheq language – it’s at risk of dying out, and Moctar is one of the few in his community who knows how to write it. “People here are...
Out May 3rd, Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down. The songs on Funeral For Justice speak unflinchingly to the plight of...
Musician and visual artist Kim Gordon has released ‘I’m a Man’, the latest preview track from her second solo album, The Collective, out March 8th on Matador / Remote Control. Atop a dark, churning soundscape, Gordon ruminates on discrimination, gender norms and societal constraints in her inimitable style—once again challenging the listener to think deeply about the world around them. An evocative video for ‘I’m a Man’ is also out today, starring Coco Gordon Moore and Conor Fay and was directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry,...
Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album The Collective, which will be released March 8th. Its lead track ‘BYE BYE’ is out now, driven by a snaking bassline which guides us through a haunting packing list, accompanied by a video starring Coco Gordon Moore, directed by photographer and filmmaker Clara Balzary, with cinematography by Christopher Blauvelt. Check it out below! Recorded Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, with...
Car Seat Headrest share their new live album Faces From The Masquerade alongside a video of the band performing the song ‘Sober To Death’. On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty – they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel...
Out now, Crushed By Everyone is a song-by-song rework of Water From Your Eyes’ critically-adored debut, Everyone’s Crushed. Curated by band members Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, the album dips heavily into WFYE’s personal rolodex with contributions that map the group’s rapidly expanding community – friends, tour-mates, and peers. It’s the rare “remix” record where everybody has met in person (or at least shared some DMs). Stream / Download Crushed By Everyone here.
It’s been a triumphant year in Yo La Tengo-world: Georgia, Ira, and James released a highly-acclaimed new album (This Stupid World), performed a sold-out US tour, and traveled throughout the globe. They’ve got a new EP landing on digital services – The Bunker Sessions – which collects live performances of This Stupid World songs ‘Fallout’, ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown’, ‘Aselestine’ and ‘Apology Letter’, plus James McNew-led classic ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ from 1997’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Stream / Download The Bunker Sessions here.
bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. Today they release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, via Matador / Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim. Songs like ‘my little tony’, with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks, the cathartic four-on-the-floor of ‘world’s greatest emoter’ and the festival tent psychedelia of ‘Hi-fiver’ need little in the way of exposition – these are exhilarating rock songs, if...
