In February, three out of the four of the Chromatics reunited to make music for the Lost Records: Bloom & Rage soundtrack. Today, Ruth Radelet, Nat Walker, and Adam Miller are back with a new song called “The Veil” from the second part of the soundtrack, which arrives in a week.
The White Lotus fans bid farewell to Season 3 last Sunday. Mike White’s HBO black comedy is known for its Emmy-winning music, which since Season 1 has been handled by composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer. But just a few days before the weekend’s finale, Tapia de Veer confirmed he wouldn’t be returning for Season 4: Tapia de Veer said the show’s production team was generally dismissive of his more experimental ideas, and that the temp score White provided him as a reference point sounded like “just nice background music.” Now, White has responded.
Metallica’s new documentary is called Metallica Saved My Life, and they’re lending credence to that notion by hosting blood drives in conjunction with a bunch of their upcoming tour stops.
One of the most underrated albums of 2024 was Porches’ idiosyncratic “hypergrunge” opus Shirt, and he’s back today with an expanded version called Shirt Expansion Pack to remind us. It comes with two new tracks, one of which is the title track, which is a very interesting method.
How do you stop someone from rising through the ceiling? This is the first line of Ribbon Skirt’s “Deadhorse,” the opening to their debut album Bite Down. It only gets more visceral and surreal from there: There’s someone kicking through window panes. There’s piss in a cup. There’s someone fucking up their whole life on a Wednesday. There’s a midnight meeting at a 7-Eleven. There’s black ice on the freeway. There’s someone crying on an airplane.
Meet thistle., the new signees to Venn Records. Made up of Cameron Godrey on guitar and lead vocals, Carey Judwyn Rushton on bass and vocals, and Lewis O’Grady on drums, the grungy emo band hails from Northampton, UK and is sharing the new song “it’s nice to see you, stranger” today, and it shreds.
Last year, the extremely fun Swedish psych-rock band Goat released their funky-ass self-titled album and collaborated with Ugandan-based rapper MC Yallah on the one-off single “Nimerudi.” Soon, Goat will release another collaborative single, this one recorded with some folks who are much closer to the band. The doomy hard rockers Graveyard come from Gothenburg, the same beautiful Swedish city that gave us Goat, a new Record Store Day single has two songs that both bands recorded together. Today, we get to hear one of them.
Here’s a cool new musical project that feels both out-there and extremely mundane. In 2022, the great Colorado experimentalist M. Sage teamed up with Lieven Martens under the name Sage Martens. Their album, Riding Fences, was an ambient classical exercise designed to explore the idea of “Western” music. They’re back this year with another conceptual offering that speaks to the deepest parts of my dad-soul — though, based on their artist’s statement, maybe I shouldn’t feel great about that.
We named the London art-punk group Man/Woman/Chainsaw a Band To Watch last fall upon the release of their most recent EP Eazy Peazy, produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox. Today we continue to watch the band as they release their new single “Adam & Steve,” a buzzing rock song that combines piano, strings, dual lead vocals, and tons of melody into two-and-a-half minutes.
Here are just a few artists who’ve covered Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” since last summer: Kacey Musgraves, Blink-182, Ed Sheeran, the Dismemberment Plan, and as of last Saturday, Corey Taylor.