A Jazz Blessing For The Animal is a pretty title for an album, and it wouldn’t work if the music wasn’t both weird and beautiful. Luckily, it is! Weyes Blood describes her bandmate Jacob Brunner’s music as “somewhere between Terrance McKenna and Gregorian chant. Folk with swagger.” Strawberry Hands released the great lead single “Dream Of Water” last month, and now they’re sharing “What Plant Jumps Over Me?”
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Due to appendicitis, Phoebe Bridgers had to postpone a series of intimate UK shows this week, which were to be her first live performances since last Friday’s momentous Lost Weekend release. But before her appendix flared up, she made it to BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge in London to record a session. As of now, that session is live.
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John Errol is a Los Angeles musician making warped, cool indie-pop that draws influences from giants of all genres: Britney Spears, David Bowie, and Nine Inch Nails. His last album was 2021’s Inferno, but today he’s back with a sinister, intriguing new track called “Float.”
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Last month, Charley Crockett faced backlash after Twin Temple, an LA doo-wop duo slated to open for two of his shows, were dropped from the bill. Alexandra and Zachary James claimed their Satanic imagery was the reason for it, and Jack White invited them to open for him. The country legend reacted with a lengthy statement that began, “I won’t conform and I’m not sorry.” Now, he’s back with another lengthy statement.
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Last month, Jake Xerxes Fussell announced his new album The Old Beloved Path. He shared the lead single “Rock Island Line,” which was his take on the American traditional. Today, the folk singer-songwriter is back with “Boney” and “Boll Weevil.”
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This nominations for this year’s VMAs are here. The awards show is next month, and Madonna is in the lead with 11 nods. The most interesting category, though, is Best New Artist. There’ve been many emerging musicians within the past year, and apparently one of them is Will Ferrell’s son.
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Naming your band How Strange It Is must be some kind of indie-rock sleeper cell activation, but the Portland combo is playing it coy by not naming their debut album To Be Anything At All. Instead, the record is called There Is No Evil, and judging by how successfully lead single “Slime” applied a shoegaze exterior to plucky Shins-meets-AnCo pop-rock, it’s going to be worth hearing. We get another preview today in the form of “Tough Luck,” which is sort of a Sparklehorse song for the Alex G era. It’s good, so listen below.
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Surely you remember Bimbo, the sibling duo who recently signed to the illustrious indie institution Exploding In Sound and caught our attention with the announcement of their debut album The Bimbonacci Sequence, whose title has earned many compliments from Stereogum commenters (and other people, probably). Of course that would mean nothing if the lead single, “Chewing Glass,” was bad, but lucky for us it was a true eccentric banger. Now they’re back with another weird one. This one’s called “Things Keep Getting Worse,” and it’s about how things keep getting worse, and it ends with Gretchen McKenzie yelling “THINGS JUST KEEP GETTING WORSE!” over and over, and it’s awesome. Watch the Mark Bennett-directed music video below.
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Maybe it’s news to you that Columbia House was still operational in 2026. It was news to me, but that news is immediately invalidated by newer news: After 71 years, the longstanding mail-order media club is shutting down next month, as the YouTube channel Channel 33 RPM and website Cord Cutters News point out.
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Joe Rogan has discovered Turnstile. The podcaster has somehow made it through the past few years without hearing about the biggest hardcore band in the world, but he finally learned about them during the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
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