Two weeks ago, Copenhagen punks JJ And The A’s announced their debut album Rhetoric Of Trash and shared its wild title track. Today the trio has a second single out, a relentless and infectious neon battering ram called “Roadkill.” This one gets a lot of mileage out of the blaring keyboard that mirrors the power chords. Enjoy it for yourself below.
Earlier today, Canadian member of parliament Vince Gasparro announced that Kneecap are “ineligible to enter our country.” In a video, Gasparro declared that “as parliamentary secretary for combatting crime, I am announcing that effective immediately the members of Kneecap have been deemed ineligible to enter Canada. Canada stands firmly against hate speech, incitements to violence, and the glorification of terrorism.”
How many people’s lives are absolutely fucked right now for no reason? How many families are being torn apart so that some of the worst people in the history of this country can feel smug satisfaction for about half a second before moving onto whatever their next petty grievance is? Plenty of terrible things are currently happening in the United States of America, and ICE’s fevered, anonymous kidnapping spree is the worst of them. We can’t do much about this bullshit, but we can help out a little bit. One way is raising money to help the legal costs of the families currently dealing with deportation. That’s what Panopticon is doing.
It’s almost uncannily fitting that Trish Keenan only exists now in memory, because Keenan was never too firmly tethered to the present. The British singer-songwriter was at a ’60s-themed psychedelic club, after all, when she met musician James Cargill in the mid-’90s, and for the next 20 years she’d excavate cultural and spiritual references of yore into the indietronica band they formed together. Broadcast were a singular group from the start, and it took them a while to find their niche: Their big break came shortly after their formation when their non-album song “The Book Lovers” was featured in Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, a film that often dragged ’60s aesthetics and British humor into sheer mockery. Broadcast’s girl-group harmonies and tinny synths suited Mike Myers’ free-love, technicolored escapades, but Keenan never set out for mere nostalgia bait. She wanted her art to feel it existed outside of typical time and space. In that endeavor, she succeeded, right up until she died of pneumonia in 2011 at only 42 years old.
Last week, Morrissey was one of the headlining performers at CityFolk festival in Ottawa, Canada. A couple days ago, Ottawa Citizen reported that there was an alleged threat made against the artist. Although the show went on despite the scare, 26-year-old Noah Castellano was arrested for the incident. Court documents allege that Castellano posted the threat via Bluesky on Sept. 4.
Chelsea Hodson is a literary icon, known for 2018 essay collection Tonight I’m Someone Else and her independent press Rose Books, which published Geoff Rickly’s gnarly book Someone Who Isn’t Me. Now, she’s making a foray into music with her debut song “Belong To Nobody.”
The Who’s Pete Townsend released the twitchy, hooky synth-rock solo single “Let My Love Open The Door” in 1980. In America, that song became a top-10 hit — a feat that Towsend almost never accomplished with the Who. (Only one Who single, “I Can See For Miles,” made the top 10 over here.) “Let My Love Open The Door” has been a radio-rock staple for my entire life, even though it’s closer to new wave than almost anything Townsend made with the Who. Now, reluctant indie cult overlord Mistki offers up her own take on “Let My Love Open The Door.”
“We are proud to welcome @clairo to the Atlantic Records family.” So reads a new post from the label, a prominent arm of Warner Music Group.
Over 400 artists and labels are coming together for No Music For Genocide, a new cultural boycott initiative asking artists and rights-holders to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Some acts involved include Massive Attack, Rina Sawayama, Fontaines D.C., MIKE, Primal Scream, Faye Webster, and Japanese Breakfast.