Out today digitally, It’s Beautiful is a new EP featuring fully reimagined takes of three songs from Water From Your Eyes’ It’s a Beautiful Place. Here guitarist and producer Nate Amos tweaks, twists, and warps the arrangements for ‘Born 2,’ ‘Nights in Armor,’ and ‘Playing Classics,’ dramatically shifting the scenery around and emotional resonance of singer Rachel Brown’s vocal leads. “The new versions of ‘Born 2’ and ‘Nights in Armor’ are actually just closer to how the...
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bar italia unveil their new album Some Like It Hot, out today! Ahead of the release they shared new single ‘omni shambles’, a taut rocker veering between syncopated, angular riffs and cathartic singalong within an action-packed 2 minutes. Marking the album’s release, bar italia host a series of special events: an exhibition of the band’s drawings at London’s General Assembly gallery on October 16 — their third following shows at...
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bar italia release new single and video ‘rooster’, the latest preview from their upcoming album Some Like It Hot, released October 17th. Flowing between sinuous groove and sinister guitar onslaughts, ‘rooster’ is another showcase of the new album’s union of the anthemic and unbridled. Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians on the adventure path....
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David Byrne releases his highly anticipated new album Who Is The Sky?, out now alongside new single ‘What Is The Reason For It? (feat. Hayley Williams)’. Marked by the inviting vocal interplay between Byrne and Paramore’s Williams, ‘What Is the Reason for It?’ aims to understand love in a way logic can rarely accomplish (“does it do something useful? / nobody understands it”). Born from a creative collaboration between David...
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Kim Gordon released ‘BYE BYE 25!’, a remake of ‘BYE BYE!’ from her critically acclaimed second solo album, The Collective. Proceeds from the sale of ‘BYE BYE 25!’, both song and t-shirt, will be donated to reproductive rights nonprofit NOISE FOR NOW. Both ‘BYE BYE 25!’ and The Collective were nominated for GRAMMYs at the 2025 ceremony. Of the ‘BYE BYE 25!’, Gordon says: (Producer and collaborator) Justin Raisen had...
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It’s a Beautiful Place, the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out August 22, opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. The album is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness....
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Lifeguard release a new single ‘Under Your Reach.’ It’s among the band’s hardest-hitting tracks to date, expertly blending their experimental and pop-leaning impulses. Gritty drones and dub-inflected bass give way to a laser beam riff, with guitarists Kai Slater and Asher Case delivering the vocal in loose harmony. The song is drawn from the Chicago-based trio’s forthcoming debut album, Ripped and Torn, out June 6th. Watch the video below! Recorded...
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The Scholars is the first new Car Seat Headrest album in five years – an expansive suite of songs that sweeps seamlessly from majestic glam to The Who-worthy bombast. Earlier this month, Will Toledo appeared on the podcast How Long Gone and Paste published a cover story featuring the full group. Writing in Mojo, critic David Fricke blessed The Scholars with a four star review, praising the record as an...
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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...
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Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) releases his new album Glory. The album contains themes that he’s wrestled with artistically throughout his career – themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, and of inescapable history and damage. The full album bio by Daniel Felsenthal can be found here. He revealed the final single earlier in the week, ‘Clean Heart’, a hopeful, swelling track that reflects on the concept...
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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...
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of Railroad Jerk’s highly lauded album One Track Mind, first released on March 21, 1995 via Matador. Watch the newly digitised official music videos for ‘Rollerkoaster’ and ‘Bang the Drum’ below. Railroad Jerk’s own Marcellus Hall and Dave Varenka join host (and personal friend) Matt Sweeney in conversation for the latest episode of the Matador Revisionist History Podcast. They look back on some fond...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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