Archive: 2019

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges are pleased to announce Texas Sun, their forthcoming collaborative EP out February 7th on Dead Oceans, in partnership with Columbia Records and Night Time Stories Ltd. In conjunction with today’s announcement, they present its title track. Over a slowly rolling backbeat and strums of flamenco-style guitar, Bridges sings of the pull the unique Texan […]

Today, Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot announce a 19-date headline tour across North America. Fronted by Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, the group will kick off their month-long trek on March 13th in Los Angeles. As vocal champions for women’s rights around the globe, Pussy Riot are proud to partner with PLUS1 throughout the duration of this tour so […]

Third Man Records is excited to announce Maggot Brain, a new, full-color quarterly edited by noted Detroit music scribe Mike McGonigal. The December/January/February issue is available now, and yearly four-issue subscriptions can be purchased HERE. The Premiere Dec/Jan/Feb issue features:  Alice Coltrane, Swell Maps, Malls Across America, Mia Zapata, Dilla’s ‘Donuts’, Luc Sante, Vibrant Detroit Sign Painting, Mayakovsky, Index, Big […]

M. Ward has revealed plans for his latest album, Migration Stories, to be released on April 3rd, 2020 via Anti Records. A full North American tour will follow in April and May – all dates below. The captivating first track, “Migration Of Souls,” is out now. For his tenth album, he journeyed to Quebec, Canada to work with Arcade Fire’s Tim […]

For the last 30 years, Greg Dulli, frontman of The Afghan Whigs and The Twilight Singers, has been the poet laureate of the bizarre whims and cruel tangents of desire. A foremost authority on the sell-your-soul rewards of carnal lust, the high voltage epiphanies of chemical enhancement, and the serotonin lows left in their wake. […]

Over the last four years, the band Telemonster has produced eight kids and one record. The record, titled Introspecter, Pt. 1, is their first in six years, and comes from this particular place in life – a place where you carry toddlers more than guitar cases; where you play hide ’n’ seek more than you play shows; where […]

Every year around this time we’re suddenly bombarded with the same old Christmas music everywhere we go. It almost seems like artists are scared to step out and try to make something entirely new, something that deviates from the same tired standards. Sure, nostalgia has its place (especially at Christmas), but why not give the […]

“If Joni Mitchell and Richie Havens had a love child, with Rodney Dangerfield as the midwife, the results might have been something close to the great Vance Gilbert.” As the above quote from Richmond magazine suggests, Vance Gilbert defies stereotypes. It’s little wonder then that he also exceeds expectations. In this case, those two qualities […]

After earning his living as a sideman in New York City for most of his twenties, Graham Norwood decided to leave music behind when he married a painter joking that, “it seemed like if we wanted to have any kind of a stable life with a house and kids someday, we couldn’t both be allergic […]