Last month Dean Johnson revealed his signing to Saddle Creek and released the song “Blue Moon.” Today the Seattle-based singer-songwriter is announcing his sophomore album I Hope We Can Still Be Friends. The disarming single “Before You Hit The Ground” is out now.
I Love People is the wholesome title of Cory Hanson’s forthcoming album, which is the follow-up to the rather raunchily named 2023 LP Western Cum. One of the people Hanson loves is Lou Reed, and today he released an ode to the late Velvet Underground frontman.
Remember when Kanye rapped about cooking up summer in the winter? We’re about to get a whole album of Winter in the summer. LA shoegazer Samira Winter will release her album Adult Romantix in August. Upon announcing the album, she shared its opening track “Just Like A Flower.” Today we get another preview featuring one of Winter’s prominent indie rock peers.
Waylon Jennings’ son Shooter has announced an exciting project to commemorate the late country star, who passed away in 2002. After coming across recordings his father made, Shooter — who makes music and produces — has compiled three albums worth of unreleased music from the singer-songwriter. The first is Songbird. The title track is out now, and it’s a Fleetwood Mac cover.
Biohazard last released music in 2012 with their ninth studio album Reborn In Defiance. The Brooklyn hardcore veterans reunited with their classic lineup for shows in 2022, and now they’re sharing “Forsaken,” their first new song in 13 years.
Rip Van Winkle, the new band from ever-prolific Guided By Voices leader Robert Pollard, will release their debut album Blasphemy next month. Today they’ve followed up its lead single “By The Water” with “Shit-heel Man.” The song is a prime specimen of Pollard-isms, from its title to the way it builds from vaguely queasy lo-fi muck to an anthemic chorus. It’s not GBV, but it hits like prime latter-day GBV nonetheless. Listen below.
Note: We, the writers and commenters of Stereogum, have already done all the jokes about the Australian rock band the Vines on previous posts about Vines the Brooklyn-based ambient composer. If you make those jokes now, you’ll just look like a loser. And anyhow, I like Cassie Wieland’s music way better than I ever liked “Get Free” and all that.
Though not exactly a grunge band, Coffin Break were right there in the thick of Seattle’s grunge-era explosion. Founded in 1987, the band shared its first rehearsal space with Alice In Chains, recorded its debut album with Jack Endino, and counted Kurt Cobain among its fans. Coffin Break made their way to Epitaph Records for a two-album stretch before breaking up in 1993, with appreciation from figures like the BBC’s John Peel along the way. They returned to action in 2007 with a reunion show at Seattle’s Crocodile Café and have played in fits and starts ever since. Now they’re back with news of their first new album in 33 years.
Billy Corgan is out on tour right now celebrating the 25th anniversary of Machina: The Machines Of God, the last album released during the Smashing Pumpkins’ original run. Pumpkins bandmates James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin declined to participate in this tour, but at least one Machina era band member has now made an appearance.
On Saturday, the US government threw a military parade in Washington, DC to celebrate the US Army’s 250th anniversary. It also happened to be President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. Reportedly, the Army has been planning an anniversary celebration for two years, but a parade was only added after Trump, who has long desired such a spectacle, entered office. Concurrently, a series of No Kings protests across the country objected to Trump’s policies, including his deployment of the National Guard and Marines to combat anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles.