Big Thief release a 5-track charity EP. Entitled Passional Relations, all proceeds will go toward providing relief for those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles. Big Thief say, “Our hearts are broken for everyone affected by the fires in California. We’ve put together some of our favorite unreleased songs into an EP called Passional Relations, only available on our webstore, and all proceeds will go toward providing relief for...
Bartees Strange shares ‘Wants Needs’, an uproarious confessional highlight from his upcoming album Horror, out on 14 February. ‘Wants Needs’ finds Strange’s stylistic range and aptitude for genre-melting pop music at its sharpest. What begins as a pitch perfect indie rock earworm gradually crescendos into a full force anthem, anchored by disarming self-assuredness. “I realised a couple years ago that if music is really going to work out long-term, I want/need more fans. Of course...
The National release Rome, the definitive live document of the band in performance. Recorded at the architecturally stunning venue Cavea of the Auditorium Parco Della Musica Ennio Morricone. The 21-track double LP showcases scintillating versions of the band’s most beloved songs, plus sharpened readings of recent tracks, and marked by rarities; reflecting how the band changes setlists significantly from night to night to cast fresh light on hidden gems from...
Kim Deal today shares her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More, out now. In keeping with Deal’s meticulous approach to her art, the album was refined over several years; its oldest songs were written and originally recorded in 2011 shortly after Deal came off the Pixies’ Lost Cities Tour and relocated to Los Angeles. Deal enlisted a variety of collaborators from Breeders past and present (Mando Lopez, twin sister Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, Britt...
Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — announce their second album Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, and release lead single ‘2468’ alongside a video, directed by writer and filmmaker Eliza Callahan and choreographed by Alexa West. Watch below! Produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, the band’s original and sonic home, Phonetics On...
Thea Gustafsson – who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds – turns a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, out today. Her new single ‘To trust you’ contributes an air of vulnerability to the LP’s emotively hard-hitting and sonically diverse soundscape through hypnotic looped vocals, stomping 808s, and transportive electric...
This Halloween, Bartees Strange shares a new single ‘Too Much’, from his upcoming album Horror (out on 14 February), a sonic and lyrical love letter from Strange to himself, growing from a deflated ego into a feral giant. As the opening salvo for Horror, ‘Too Much’ sets the tone for the Baltimore-based genre-shifter’s third outing with nods to early hits by the Isleys and the Brothers Johnson. Watch the accompanying...
To celebrate Frank Black’s landmark solo album, Teenager Of The Year turning 30, 4AD release a one-time vinyl pressing on 17th January. This special vinyl tour edition of Teenager Of The Year, has been remastered for the first time from its original analogue studio tapes. Sounding as essential as the day it was released, the LP is is cut at 45 rpm for optimum playback with liner notes by both...
The National recently announced the 13 December release of Rome, a 21-track digital and two-LP and CD set recorded live on 3 June 2024 at Cavea of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. Now, they have shared another four song EP titled NTL RM EP II, featuring album highlights ‘Smoke Detector’, ‘Fake Empire’, ‘Mr. November’, and ‘Terrible Love’. Rome spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how...
Becky and the Birds has recently turned a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her forthcoming self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, due for release on 15 November. Today, she shares the record’s newest single ‘Anymore’, a beautifully transportive sound bath of sleek hazy hooks and hypnotic drum tracks, levied by her echoed, bird-like vocals delivering a cathartic message on starting...
Tucker Zimmerman releases his label debut and eleventh career studio record Dance Of Love. Earlier in the week Tucker shared ‘Lorelei’, alongside a lyric video. Opening with a sing-alongworthy guitar lead, Zimmerman’s earthy vocals blend perfectly with Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker as they trade off verses and harmonies. Zimmerman explains, “I’m turning Lorelei on her head in this song. Enough luring sailors on the river to their destruction. Time to...
Kim Deal shares another taste of her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More (out November 22nd), in the form of new single ‘A Good Time Pushed’, paired with visuals by Mark Satterthwaite. Watch below! The song is the album closer and the final song recorded by Kim, engineered by close friend Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. It features Breeders members Jim Macpherson and Kelley Deal....
After coming-of-age with their introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through phantasea pharm (2023), cumgirl8 are now on the cusp of their 8th cumming by way of their long-awaited debut LP of that name, out now. Following the previous release of the record’s first tongue-in-cheek single ‘Karma Police’ and ‘ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)’ –...
Bartees Strange announces his third full-length album, Horror, due on 14 February 2025, alongside releasing new single ‘Sober’, produced by Strange, Jack Antonoff, Yves Rothman and Lawrence Rothman, and paired with a music video directed by Ricardo Betancourt that draws inspiration from Sly & The Family Stone’s 1974 Soul Train performance. Watch below! Strange says, “This song is about falling short in a relationship, over and over and drinking because...
Enigmatic Irish musician (and regular NTS Radio host) Maria Somerville returns with her first new single in three years ‘Projections’, accompanied by visuals from Somerville, Michael Speers and Róisín Berkeley, recorded on VHS across Marseille and Somerville’s native Galway. Watch below! The wistful, romantic shoegaze track is drenched in longing via fuzzed-out bass and strummed guitar, carried by Somerville’s hypnotic and tranquil vocal stylings. The other-worldly, swirling single is a...
Adrianne Lenker shares a four-song session recorded for burgeoning musical platform Brodie Sessions. Watch below! Back in the Spring during her sold-out European solo tour, Lenker was invited to perform at a private residence outside the Danish capital. Captured in just one take on 16mm film, Lenker and her bandmate Nick Hakim played astonishingly raw cuts from her latest solo album Bright Future in front of a small Copenhagen audience. ...
