Boards Of Canada fans were in a tizzy last week after some people received mysterious VHS tapes in the mail from Warp, their longtime label. Those tapes featured some haunting, static-y audio, not necessarily a song, but it felt like pretty solid evidence that the IDM icons might be gearing up for a big return.…
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“I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we’re making rock music.” That’s the money quote. Charli XCX is the subject of a new British Vogue cover story, and it’s mostly about her work on the proper follow-up to her career-exploding 2024 landmark Brat. Charli has been extremely busy since Brat. She just released her Wuthering Heights soundtrack album in February, and she’s acting in approximately one million movies this year, but apparently she’s had time to work on another record amid all of that.
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Last month, duendita announced her new album existential thottie, which arrives in just a couple of weeks. “For a long time, ‘beach’ was my favorite song,” the Berlin-via-Queens artist said of her follow-up to last year’s a strong desire to survive. It’s hard picking favorites, but now “beach” is out in the world as existential thottie‘s latest…
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Two years ago, the North Carolina singer-songwriter Rosali Middleman released Bite Down, the second album that she recorded with Omaha bar-rockers David Nance & Mowed Sound as her backup band. That album rules. Today, Rosali follows it with a standalone single called “Other Side,” with Mowed Sound backing her up once again. “Other Side” is…
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Next month post-punks Cola will return with their new album Cost Of Living Adjustment, aka C.O.L.A., which they’ve been teasing with some brilliantly named singles like “Hedgesitting” and “Conflagration Mindset.” Today they’re back with another one called “Skywriter’s Sky,” a poppier, upbeat number about Sisyphean struggles in modern times: “Feeling weak in jumbotron gaze/ We…
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Producers Ryan Hemsworth and Giraffage got together to form the duo Bodysync in 2021, and their album Nutty came out two years ago. Last year, they dropped the one-off single “Surf.” On Instagram, Bodysync say that they’ve got a new EP on the way and that we should “TAKE A WALK TODAY,” which is good…
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Given basically everything we know about him, from his luxury expedition to Antarctica to his friendship with RFK Jr., Diplo profiles as an AI bro. It turns out he is.
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The Rolling Stones are almost certainly the most famous currently-active rock ‘n’ roll band on the face of the planet, and all the surviving members are roughly one billion years old. They don’t need to hype up a new record by doing viral-marketing stunts, but they’re doing it anyway. The Stones released their Andrew Watt-produced…
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For more than a quarter century, Will Sheff has been the frontman of the ultra-literate indie rock band Okkervil River. But Okkervil River haven’t been active for years. In 2022, Sheff released is first-ever solo album Nothing Special, and we ran a whole feature about it. Right now, Sheff is out on tour as the…
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