Right now, it appears that Compton club-music traveler Channel Tres is on a mission to pay tribute to all the best clubby R&B tracks of the early ’90s. I sincerely support him in this endeavor. A few months ago, Channel Tres released his take on the En Vogue classic “Free Your Mind.” Today, he drops…
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For many years, Alex Edkins led the extremely sick Toronto noise-rock power trio METZ. Now, he’s half of the duo Noble Rot with Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh, and he makes his own excellent power-pop jams under the name Weird Nightmare. This spring, Edkins will follow Weird Nightmare’s very cool 2023 self-titled debut with a new…
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Imagine that you’re at the pool and someone is playing, like, a Dido song incredibly loud on glitchy, damaged YouTube speakers. You stick your head underwater to avoid the sound, but you can still hear it, and it suddenly sounds all blurry and beautiful. The new Full Body 2 single is kind of like that.…
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Carla dal Forno is back. The reliably good Australian singer-songwriter has a new album called Confession coming in April, and today, she’s announcing the follow-up to 2022’s Come Around with the lead single “Going Out.” Dal Forno wrote Confession, which she says is about “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way,” in…
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It’s been about four years since the fired-up, emo-adjacent Albany pop-punkers Prince Daddy & The Hyena released their self-titled album, and now they’re ready to drop another one on us. The band recorded the upcoming Hotwire Trip Switch with longtime collaborator and Hop Along/Algernon Cadwallader member Joe Reinhart, and they say that it’s a “singles”…
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Last year, London electronic producer Loraine James released Whatever The Weather II, the second album from her ambient alter-ego Whatever The Weather, and collaborated with artists like Purelink and Shapednoise. Today, James announces a new album called Detached From The Rest Of You, the first one released under her own name since 2023’s Gentle Confrontation.…
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This Friday, the dreamy Tuscon rockers Mute Swan will release their sophomore album Skin Slip, the last album they recorded before the death of their guitarist Tom Sloane. We’ve heard a bit of the record already with singles like “Hypnosis Tapes” and “Cocteau Swans,” and Mute Swan are churning out even more previews of what’s to…
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Since 2022’s Warm Chris, Aldous Harding has stayed busy by collaborating with Perfume Genius, John Parish, and Sleaford Mods. Now the New Zealand-born, Wales-based singer-songwriter is announcing her fifth studio album, Train On The Island. Train On The Island was co-produced by John Parish at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where they recorded 2017’s Party,…
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When Goon released their album Dream 3 last summer, at least one great song was left over. The folky, poppy, psych-y Los Angeles band has now found an outlet for that track. “Atrium” will be released next month on a 7″, backed by the previously released “Death Spells.” The music, which has hit the internet…
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Brenden Ramirez, the Portland power-popper who records as Bory, is a few days away from releasing his new album Never Turns To Night, and we’ve posted his songs “We’ll Burn That Bridge When We Get To It,” “By The Lake,” and “Living Proof.” Today, he shares the soft, gentle acoustic track “Exactly What I Needed.”…
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