Muzz have announced details of a new EP, Covers. The four-track set, which sees the trio of Paul Banks, Josh Kaufman and Matt Barrick reimagine songs by Arthur Russell, Bob Dylan, Mazzy Star and Tracy Chapman, will be released digitally on December 9th via Matador. Covers is as much an illustration of the bands collective inspirations as it is a sonic testament to their expansive imagination and fluidity as a...
Julien Baker will release her third studio album, Little Oblivions, on February 26 via Matador Records. Ahead of that, she reveals the first look at the album via ‘Faith Healer’, which introduces the exhilarating, widescreen musical palette and infectious spirit of risk-taking found on Little Oblivions, a transformative sonic shift from Baker’s more spare and intimate previous work. An essay on the album by poet, author, and cultural critic Hanif...
Yo La Tengo have released Sleepless Night – a six-song EP with one new tune (‘Bleeding’) plus covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine. The tracks on Sleepless Night were initially released as one side of an LP, included within a limited-edition catalogue accompanying the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s career retrospective for the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. A...
Kurt Vile releases Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep). Announced last week with the track ‘How Lucky’, a cover of and duet with the late John Prine, the EP features an additional Prine cover, a cover of “Cowboy” Jack Clement and two originals. It was recorded alongside a cast of Nashville heavyweights including Bobby Wood, Dave Roe, and Kenny Malone with Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf) tossed...
Kurt Vile has announced his Speed, Sound, Lonely KV EP will be released Friday 2 October via Matador. Speed, Sound, Lonely KV was recorded and mixed in sporadic sessions that spanned four years at The Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville, TN. It includes five songs — covers of John Prine and “Cowboy” Jack Clement as well as two originals — and was recorded alongside a cast of local heavies like...
Tune-Yards releases their new song ‘nowhere, man’. The bright, brash and upbeat song is paired with a lively video that takes Chaplin-esque footage shot in Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner’s garage during quarantine and brings them to life alongside stop motion animation by Japhy Riddle and Callie Day. The song title references the Beatles song, and is a referendum on how far society has or has not come based on...
On Friday 9 October, Matador Records will release Yo La Tengo’s Sleepless Night – a six-song EP with one new tune (‘Bleeding’) plus covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine. The tracks on Sleepless Night were initially released as one side of an LP, included within a limited-edition catalogue accompanying the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s career retrospective for...
Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band’s first eight records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight...
Muzz release their debut self titled album. It’s out now through Matador Records. Stream it now. Muzz was born out of longstanding friendship and collaboration. Paul Banks and Josh Kaufman have known each other since childhood, attending high school together in Spain before separately moving to New York. There, they independently crossed paths with Matt Barrick while running in similar music circles. They kept in touch in the following years: Barrick drummed in...
Joshua Homme’s Desert Sessions collective is proud to unveil the first fruits of its expansion into visual collaboration: Homme’s recent meetings with students at the New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus have resulted in unique works by two filmmakers, each of whom was given a production budget to translate the music and lyrics of the Desert Sessions into their own vision. Italian filmmaker Gabriele Fabbro took on the acoustic...
Continuing with Matador’s ever-expanding, and I’m sure to some of you exhausting, Revisionist History series, we are pleased to announce a 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo’s 1995 album Electr-o-pura. Now in a gatefold sleeve and cut from the original 58 minute master, the new reissue is pressed for the first time on two LPs to ensure the highest quality of audio the album has had on vinyl to date. Pre-orders...
Last month Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) shared the single, ‘On The Floor’, off his forthcoming new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately which will be released May 15. Today, he drops a remix of the track from Tokyo-based producer, Initial Talk. Initial Talk has done remixes for Rihanna, Lady Gaga and most recently Dua Lipa and is known for infusing early MTV-era 80’s sounds into his work. Here, ‘On...
Car Seat Headrest today reveal dreamy nigh-on 8-minute epic ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’, ahead of the release of their new album Making A Door Less Open on May 1st. The release is accompanied by a special acoustic performance of the song by front man Will Toledo in character as ‘Trait’. In its mesmeric slow burn, album centerpiece ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’ presents another facet of the...
Ever since Steve Gunn released his critically acclaimed fourth studio album Unseen In Between and follow-up Unseen Acoustic in 2019, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a new collection of songs from the prolific songwriter and guitarist. Happy to report that Steve Gunn has a new EP out titled Livin’ In Between featuring three cover songs released last year exclusively as an Amazon Original and ‘Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Session’ singles respectively, that...
Meet Muzz, a new indie supergroup comprising Paul Banks of Interpol, Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman, and Matt Barrick of The Walkmen. First single ‘Broken Tambourine’ begins with sparse, floating piano by Kaufman, before surging with Banks’ rumbling vocals, Barrick’s low percussion, and a lilting clarinet, while an open door during recording brings in the surrounding nature sounds of the studio in Woodstock and augments the song’s spacious atmosphere....
2019, The year of Lucy Dacus, and the title of her new EP – out now through Matador Records. It arrives following the release of her acclaimed second record, Historian, and the collaborative boygenius EP with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers. Throughout the year, Lucy Dacus has rolled out a festive mix of original and cover songs tied to various holidays. This is 2019. From the poignant refrain of ‘My Mother...
