Julien Baker releases a new EP B-Sides. Intimate and emotional, the 3 never-before-heard songs were taken from the recording sessions for her critically heralded third full-length Little Oblivions. Baker has collaborated on studio recordings with Frightened Rabbit, Matt Berninger, Hayley Williams, Becca Mancari, Mary Lambert, and on stage with Justin Vernon, The National, Sharon Van Etten, Ben Gibbard, and others. Stream / download B-Sides here.
Interpol release their seventh album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, including a new single and video ‘Gran Hotel’. Watch the Malia James-directed video below! Paul Banks says: “The lyrics to Gran Hotel tell a story of grief and heartbreak, of a character processing loss. Working with a fantastic camera crew and with the help of two very talented actors, Malia created a powerful video that conveys the events that lead to that loss. It’s a...
Julien Baker has announced B-Sides, an EP of tracks taken from the recording sessions for her critically heralded third full-length Little Oblivions. You can listen to ‘Guthrie’, out now, a gorgeous and hushed finger-picked ballad. The EP will be out digitally on July 21st and features three emotionally potent never-before-heard songs. Stream / purchase ‘Guthrie’ herePre-order / pre-save B-Sides here
Lucifer on the Sofa is Spoon’s thrilling tenth album. You can now watch the official video for ‘My Babe’. It’s the record’s anthemic centrepiece –a genuine love song shot through with tenderness, optimism, and a touch of self-aware bravado. The ‘My Babe’ video takes inspiration from a short-lived late ’70s variety show hosted by the legendary country music producer and oddball poet, “Cowboy” Jack Clement. The clip is directed by Jamie- James Medina...
Perfume Genius releases his new album, Ugly Season. To coincide with the release of the album, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) teamed with renowned visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite for a 30 minute film featuring Hadreas and the music of Ugly Season. Watch below! Ugly Season bookends a two-year period of intense creativity from Perfume Genius, which includes the full-length Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, that album’s remixed counterpart Immediately, the dance piece, and the subsequent film collaboration with Satterwhite. It is a stand-alone record, but it encompasses...
It’s not common practice to have an album’s title track released after said album as a standalone single, but Belle and Sebastian aren’t sticklers for ceremony. The band have released a new single and video ‘A Bit Of Previous‘, which shares the title of their critically acclaimed 9th full-length released in May to become their third UK Top Ten charting album. Explained alternately as an allusion to the concept of reincarnation in Buddhism and...
Chicago is baked into the core of Versions of Modern Performance out now via Matador. Cheng (she/her), Lowenstein (she/her) and Reece (they/them) learned to play—and met—through the significant network of Chicago youth arts programs, and they have their own mini-rock underground. Across the album, recorded at Chicago’s Electrical Audio with John Agnello, there’s elements of the ‘80s and ‘90s independent music the band love so deeply and sincerely. But as...
Interpol release ‘Fables,’ the third single from their forthcoming full-length, The Other Side of Make-Believe, out July 15th – pre-order here. “‘Fables’ features one of Daniel’s hottest licks,” comments Paul. “A breezy vocal with optimistic lyrics and a bouncy drum beat evocative of classic R&B with a nod to the golden age of hip hop. It’s a summer jam and a piece of music we are particularly proud of.” The new track follows the band’s well-received first...
Chicago band Horsegirl – Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) – unveil a new single/video, ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty),’ from their debut album, Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Watch below! ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)’ is a scuffed up, guitar-driven piece of garage-pop. The tracks’ lyrics brim with alliteration and slanted rhymes, and as the instrumentation rises, the song rides out with a chorus of “oohs.” As a band who do everything as a...
Last fall, Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) was invited to record a 4-song live session at Jamdek studio in Chicago. These recordings capture the music from her 2021 album -io at the outset of its transition from studio to stage, including band arrangements of the compositions “Vanishing,” “Dogma,” “Sculpting the Exodus,” and “Stranger.” Fohr was joined on these performances by the musicians Whitney Johnson (Matchess), Andrew Scott Young, and Ashley...
Belle and Sebastian have released their 9th studio album, A Bit Of Previous. Marking the occasion comes a new video and single ‘Talk To Me, Talk To Me’. The video was written and directed by 15-year-old south London siblings Freya and Rosalie Salkeld. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic. Says frontman Stuart Murdoch in the...
This month celebrates 30 years of Pavement’s debut full-length, Slanted & Enchanted, which was first released in 1992 via Matador Records. It remains a truly monumental album – one that defined/ruined a generation and a genre, depending on who you ask. On August 12th, a limited-edition run of the original LP will be released on red/white/black splatter vinyl, as well as a lovingly detailed replica of the cassette Pavement used to shop Slanted & Enchanted to prospective record labels,...
Mdou Moctar’s Afrique Victime was one of 2021’s most lauded releases: an innovative alchemy of Tuareg folk, blues and rock, electric guitar pyrotechnics, field recordings and electronics with poetic call-to-arms lyrics about the plight of his homeland of Niger. In line with their activity supporting African artists, Mdou Moctar announce Afrique Refait, a remix collection of songs from Afrique Victime. The tracklist features sound-makers at the vanguard of electronic music in Africa, with a view of highlighting different...
Belle and Sebastian have released a new single, ‘Young and Stupid,’ taken from their forthcoming new album A Bit Of Previous, out May 6th. The song is accompanied by a lyric video which gets unfettered access into the band members respective family photo albums. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic....
Recently, Interpol premiered ‘Toni‘, the first single from their new album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, released July 15th on Matador. The song was accompanied by the opening instalment of a two-part film directed by Van Alpert (Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly), which quickly went to garner over a quarter of a million views on YouTube. Interpol have now released the second and concluding part, as well as unveiled new song ‘Something Changed’. Singer Paul Banks says: “In “Something Changed,” part 2 of...
Horsegirl share new single and lyric video ‘World of Pots and Pans’ from their debut album Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Following the propulsive ‘Anti-glory’, ‘World of Pots and Pans’ has a rough, blown-out pop charm. Watch below! Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) do everything collectively, from songwriting to trading vocal duties and swapping instruments to sound and visual art design. Reece and Cheng, college freshmen, and Lowenstein, a high school senior,...
