Dallas-born, LA-based musician Liv.e has only gotten more prolific over the years. She released her debut album Couldn’t Wait To Tell You… in 2020, which was then followed by 2023’s Girl In The Half Pearl and last year’s PAST FUTUR.e. Today, she’s returned with a completely new project, teaming up with renowned Detroit drummer and producer Karriem Riggins as new duo GENA. The name is short for “God Energy, Naturally Amazing” and somewhat inspired by Tisha Campbell’s character Gina from the ’90s sitcom Martin. They shared their debut single “Circlesz” with a retro talk show video directed by Mackai Sharp.

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It’s that time of the year again. Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, Weyes Blood, and more are getting ready to release Christmas songs for Michael Showalter’s holiday film Oh. What. Fun., which arrives next month.

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Earlier this year, These New Puritans, the UK art-pop team of Jack and George Barnett, returned with Crooked Wing, their first new album since the pre-pandemic days. Now, as These New Puritans get ready for a quick European tour, they’ve shared a song from the album sessions that didn’t make it onto the record.

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Last month, Glitterer announced their new album erer and released the awesome lead single “Stainless Steel.” Now Ned Russin and co. are back with “Not Forever.”

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UK punk-rap duo Bob Vylan have been targets of alarmist Zionist PR campaigns ever since they led a chant of “death, death, death to the IDF” at Glastonbury, and they’ve suffered real material losses for taking that stand. They had to cancel a US tour after their visas were revoked, and they’ve had other shows dropped, including a European tour with Gogol Bordello. Most recently, they denied “celebrating” Charlie Kirk’s death. But now prominent UK press outlet has had to apologize and pay for some of the rhetoric that they’ve directed at Bob Vylan.

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Bill Callahan back! The singular indie figure will release his new album My Days Of 58 early next year. Callahan released YTI⅃AƎЯ, his last solo album, in 2022. Last year, he had a couple of songs with Noah Cyrus, which was interesting. Callahan recorded My Days Of 58 with the same group of musicians that backed him up on his YTI⅃AƎЯ tour: guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, and drummer Jim White. It’s also got fiddle from Richard Bowden, piano from Pat Thrasher, bass from Chris Vreeland, trombone from Mike St. Clair, and pedal steel from Bill McCullough.

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When I was a kid first getting into classic rock, Neil Young was “the weird one.” The Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, they all had their legions of fans. Young, did, too. But they were the loners, the wanderers. My elders would quip about his voice, or the darkness simmering underneath his writing. For every beautiful, enduring folk-rock hit, he had a whole array of gnarled music unafraid to lean into some harrowing adult shit — not foreign amongst his peers, but rarely conveyed with so much unflinching honesty. Out of all the Boomer icons, Young was the dark horse.

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Anytime a record comes out on the Flenser, the Bay Area label that specializes in dark, avant-garde underground music, that record is worth hearing. The forthcoming Ash Souvenir is coming out on the Flenser, and it’s from two Flenser artists, so you already know it’s going to be something. Ragana, the great Pacific Northwest queer black metal duo, recorded Ash Souvenir with Drowse, a Portland artist who makes music that floats between ambient drone and indie rock. It’s an inspired pairing, and Ash Souvenir is a powerful piece of work.

About a month ago, Taylor Swift released her new album The Life Of A Showgirl. It sold a bajillion copies right away, and then lots of people hated it. Not me, though. I thought it was good. What? Shut up. Like you don’t like anything embarrassing. All the music you like is so cool. Jeez. Anyway. Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield agrees with me, at least to the extent that she’s willing to perform that album’s title track on a stage, in front of people who might have cameras in their phones.

Nate Amos teams with Rachel Brown in Water From Your Eyes, and he used to team with Lily Konigsberg in My Idea (or maybe that band is still active, which would be cool). But he’s also accumulated a prolific solo catalog under the alias This Is Lorelei. Last year This Is Lorelei experienced a massive glow-up by signing to the esteemed indie label Double Double Whammy and releasing the instant classic album Box For Buddy, Box For Star. That was sort of his Teens Of Denial, and now he’s gone back and made his Teens Of Style, re-recording some of the best tracks from his DIY Bandcamp era for a new album called Holo Boy.