Just a few days from now, Hannah Pruzinsky, the New York singer-songwriter who records as h. pruz, will release their new album Red sky at morning. Pruzinsky co-produced the LP with Florist/Told Slant member Felix Walworth, and they’re also publishing a companion-piece RPG book called Sailor’s Warning. We’ve posted the early tracks “Arrival” and “Krista,” and now a third Red sky at morning song has hit the internet.
Oneohtrix Point Never is back up in this shit. In a couple of weeks, Daniel Lopatin will take a break from his busy film-soundtrack and outside production schedule to release his own album Tranquilizer, inspired by his discovery of an archive of ’90s commercial-music sample CDs. Lopatin plans to release a lot of Tranquilizer tracks before the LP drops. He shared three songs when he made the announcement, and then he followed them up with “Measuring Ruins” last week. Today, Lopatin shares “Cherry Blue,” another piece that’ll appear on Tranquilizer.
No Pressure are an interesting band. Parker Cannon, frontman for big-deal pop-punkers the Story So Far, started No Pressure as a side project during COVID, and they’ve since become a big deal on the hardcore festival circuit despite not really being a hardcore band. Cannon’s bandmates mostly come from the hardcore world, and the group plays hardcore shows and records for hardcore labels, but they mostly specialize in a slightly amped-up version of the kind of pop-punk that Cannon makes with his other band. In making music just a little more raw and scrappy than what he does most of the time, Cannon has hit on something.
Brandi Carlile just released her new album Returning To Myself, which she co-produced with Aaron Dessner, Justin Vernon, and Andrew Watt. She was also the musical guest on a Miles Teller-hosted episode of SNL last night, her fourth time doing so; she most recently did a joint appearance with Elton John back in April, and also performed on SNL50: The Homecoming Concert a few weeks prior. This time around, Carlile performed Returning To Myself tracks “Human” and “Church & State.”
We named Fust a Best New Band back in 2023, and everyone else finally caught up this year with the release of their latest album Big Ugly. This morning, the Durham-based indie country-rock band brought some of those songs to CBS’ Saturday Sessions.
In a couple weeks, FKA twigs releases EUSEXUA Afterglow, which features a PinkPantheress collab called “Wild And Alone.” Last night the art-pop sensation joined the viral singer at her intimate Brooklyn Monarch set to give a live debut of that unreleased track.
Earlier this week Tame Impala kicked off his Deadbeat tour with live debuts and a Justice cover in Brooklyn. Last night Kevin Parker played the third of four sold-out nights at the Barclays Center, and he brought out a live rarity by playing his debut single “Sundown Syndrome” for the first time in seven years.
Who could have seen this coming: Morrissey has canceled two Mexico shows at the last minute. He was slated to perform at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes yesterday (Oct. 31) and at Zapopan’s Auditorio Telmex on Tuesday (Nov. 4), but the oft-absent singer called them off yesterday due to “extreme exhaustion.”
Liam Gallagher is looking back in anger, and rightfully so. Oasis brought their reunion tour to Australia last night with their first night at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, and a fan set off a flare into the audience. Now Liam is doing some scolding on social media.
When we caught up with Magdalena Bay at Primavera Sound a few months back, they joked that one approach to following up last year’s acclaimed Imaginal Disk would be to simply never release another album. Based on recent activity, maybe they are actually following that strategy by simply doling out songs two by two rather than combining them into a full-length statement. The alt-pop duo has been releasing new songs in pairs this fall: first “Second Sleep” and “Star Eyes,” then “Human Happens” and “Paint Me A Picture.” Today, they’ve got two more tracks for us.