The Smith Street Band return with ‘This Is It’ – the first single from their forthcoming seventh album. Dripping in the emotional honesty the band have come to be known for, the new track might just be their most vulnerable release to date. The new release comes with accompanying video clip, shot and edited by long time collaborator Nick Manuell, with Greg Rietwyk. ‘This Is It’ is a song about...
This Friday, April 18, two of music’s most iconic young songwriters Julien Baker (boygenius) & TORRES will release their highly anticipated debut collaborative album, Send a Prayer My Way. Send A Prayer My Way has been taking shape since Baker and TORRES shared a stage for the first time in 2016. After the show, one turned to the other and said, “You know, we should make a country album.” That...
Three years on from the release of debut album caroline, London-based eight-piece caroline announce new album caroline 2, to be released on May 30th. The group spent 18 months working across various writing sessions in the UK, with recording primarily taking place at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate. The album was produced by the band’s own Jasper Llewellyn, Casper Hughes and Mike O’Malley, it was engineered by Syd Kemp, mixed by Jason Agel and mastered by Heba Kadry in NYC. Launch single, ‘Tell me...
Pulp have announced their new album More, their first in almost twenty-four years which will be released on June 6th, 2025. The album was recorded and mixed at Orbb Studio in Walthamstow E17. Limited editions of the album will be available on vinyl. Along with a double LP cut at 45 rpm, which will be exclusive to Pulp’s online shop and Rough Trade Records’ webstore, there will also be four single-disc colour vinyl pressings that have...
Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, release new single ‘Heartbreak’, the second offering from their upcoming album Better Dreaming, out 16 May, showcasing some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music to date. ‘Heartbreak’ is the album’s opening track, building huge chords of Garbus’ vocal harmony around a fat slow-jam beat full of clicks, pops, samples, and dubbed snares. Garbus, soulful as ever, sings of heartbreak as fuel, as a challenge. In the...
On June 6th, Chicago’s Lifeguard will release their debut album Ripped and Torn. The youthful trio of Asher Case (bass, baritone guitar, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, synth), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals) have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop and experimental sounds, and bring them all together in explosive cacophony. Watch the blistering...
Riding high off the universal love for his latest single ‘father’, Jim Legxacy keeps things moving with new track ‘stick’. Dropping alongside another slick video from Rohan Dil shot partly on a Blackberry, ‘stick’ sees Jim at the peak of his powers offering another snapshot of his journey and cements his advancing cultural significance as a young writer and producer. Jim’s prolific output forever tells an important story. Always ahead...
Jenny Hval releases ‘The artist is absent’, the second single from her new album Iris Silver Mist, out May 2nd. The new single comes in two versions — an extended mix ’89 seconds rewrite’ and the original album version. Following the “highly specific and alluringly strange” lead single, ‘To be a rose’, ‘The artist is absent’ encapsulates this feeling. Hval sings: “A stage without a show / A hazy silhouette around an empty space...
Car Seat Headrest share new single ‘CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You)’, off The Scholars, a bold new rock opera and the band’s first studio album in five years, released May 2nd. The record’s soaring, uplifting opener is accompanied by a video, featuring illustrations of the characters who appear across The Scholars designed by cartoonist Cate Wurtz. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the album’s songs are populated...
DJ Python releases his debut XL Recordings EP – i was put on this earth – today, marking his first solo music in over three years. Released earlier this week, his latest single ‘Dai Buki’, featuring elusive London MC Jawnino and unclassifiable songwriter Organ Tapes, is the first time all three artists have created music together despite Jawnino and Organ Tapes having previously released music on DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited...
Julien Baker & TORRES have released a new single ‘Dirt’, offering another glimpse into their forthcoming collaborative album, Send a Prayer My Way, out April 18. Julien Baker & TORRES have already released three critically acclaimed singles from Send a Prayer My Way. Songs ‘Sylvia’ and ‘Tuesday’ showcased their shared love of country music while highlighting their distinct songwriting styles and interpretations of the genre. Previous to that they debuted ‘Sugar in the Tank’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Earlier this month...
Irish musician Maria Somerville will share her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, on April 25. Today, she shares the upcoming record’s third single ‘Stonefly,’ a slinky ambient waltz fleshed out with dreamy washes of vibrating feedback, grounding drum beats, transportive harp passages, and soothing vocal delivery. The track’s release is also accompanied by an atmospheric music video directed by Daniel Swan. The visual perfectly suits the...
Last night, on John Mulaney’s new Netflix talk show Everybody’s Live, Kim Gordon and Kim Deal joined forces for a first ever performance of the Sonic Youth classic ‘Little Trouble Girl’, as well as individual performances of songs from their recently released solo albums, Deal’s ‘Nobody Loves You More’, and Gordon’s GRAMMY-nominated ‘BYE BYE’. Watch below! The performance marks Kim Deal’s solo television debut. Her acclaimed new album Nobody Loves...
Jesse Mac Cormack steps into an exciting new chapter with the release of ‘All I Want To Be’. This marks the first in a series of singles set to roll out throughout 2025, each one pushing deeper into his dance-driven, electronic sound. With his ever-evolving sonic identity, Jesse continues to solidify himself as a visionary force in the electronic music landscape. Adding to his momentum, Jesse Mac Cormack is nominated...
Planet Rami releases his newest single ‘Pink to Blue’, the heart-rending story of love’s slow death. The single arrives with a stunning music video directed by Hirondelle, watch below! ‘Pink to Blue’ is a captivating soul-driven indie lament written with ARIA nominated record producer, composer, mixer and songwriter Tony Buchen and lauded American musician Luther Russell. “A turbulent love was existent in my life when we were writing this song....
caroline return with their first new music in three years, ’Total euphoria’, accompanied by a video directed by Parker Corey, a musician and director from Phoenix, Arizona mostly known for his work as a member of Injury Reserve (now By Storm). The group’s new output sees them evolving with the influence of new technologies & avant-garde producers. ‘Total euphoria’ features Jasper Llewellyn and Magdalena McLean singing in unison above the...
