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Today, Blue Note Records announced There Is No End, a posthumous album from the legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, who died last year at the age of 79. Featuring guest rappers and singers including Sampa The Great, Danny Brown, Lava La Rue, and more, the new full-length will be released on April 30, 2021, the one year anniversary of Allen’s death. […]

SoSo fauX is an ever-growing dynamic between childhood friends Andreas Thordenberg and Nicolai Kjellberg. After exploring music separately, they started writing and producing songs together in 2019, drawing from Kjellberg’s years of experience in the commercial hit duo Hearts & Colors. Together, they have found a way to constantly evolve both as humans and musically, […]

Acclaimed musician/singer/songwriter Gary Louris has announced his new album Jump For Joy will release on June 4 via Sham/Thirty Tigers. Written, performed and produced entirely by Louris himself, Jump For Joy is his first solo release since 2008’s Vagabonds. Along with the announcement Louris is sharing “New Normal,” the breezy debut single reminding us to live in the present and enjoy each moment we have […]

Greg Loiacono has not taken a minute of rest over the course of the last year. The venerable singer/songwriter and co-frontman of San Francisco’s Mother Hips has released an LP,  Mystic Traces, as well as a handful of singles. Loiacono and Jamie Drake have just share their duet “Bound To Fall” (below) across all streaming […]

The Effens are an explosive young glam grunge group on the rise from Toronto. With Austin Nops’ fiery vocals and screeching guitar riffs, Paul Theo’s pulsing synth melodies and daring guitar leads, Hannah Edgerton’s blasting bass lines and haunting harmonies combined with Fabian Kearns calculated hard-hitting drumming the four-piece form like Voltron to put on […]

Since Proper Wilted, their debut EP in 2017 as The Morning Yells, the Stancils and friends have continued to shift both geographically and sonically, moving from what Independent Clauses praised as “Laurel Canyon country meets Bruce Springsteen-esque road-rockers” to more intimate sounds on their upcoming EP, Dig. Venice, CA-based The Morning Yells are back with […]

In 2012, Stephen Malkmus and the Cologne-based band Von Spar performed Can’s album Ege Bamyasi (1972) in its entirety at Week-End Fest to celebrate the record’s 40th anniversary. Matador Records (US) and Domino Records (UK) later released the recording in a limited vinyl pressing of 3,500 copies for Record Store Day. And now – eight years later […]

Today,  Dinosaur Jr. announce a fall North American tour and rescheduled dates for their beloved Camp Fuzz, which will take place July 27 – 30 in Big Indian, NY. Camp Fuzz is an all-inclusive mountain retreat that features master classes, Q&A sessions, performances, arts and crafts, and more. Fans will get an intimate look at the workings of Dinosaur Jr. with sessions, workshops, […]

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Meg Myers has announced today’s premiere of the official animated music video for “The Underground,” streaming now at YouTube and below. “The Underground” is among the essential tracks featured on Myers’ recently released pair of unique new EPs, Thank U 4 Taking Me To 2 The Disco and I’d Like 2 Go Home […]

The forthcoming debut record from Portland, Oregon-based Night Heron is called “Instructions for Night.” By the end of the first track, the listener knows who these instructions are for. They are for those of us awake against our will: tossing in bed after a terrible fight, pacing the hallways of new parenthood, stricken with fear of unemployment or […]

Kelly McFarling, an Atlanta-born, Bay Area-based singer–songwriter, is a musician who makes songs for long drives and fault lines.  McFarling gives weight to wistfulness, traverses landscapes and mythologies, and renders the small and ordinary in ultra-vivid color. Check out the striking new single “North Decatur” from Kelly McFarling. Set to intimate acoustic guitar picking and warm pedal steel […]

 Sony Music today announced the upcoming release of Pink Floyd Live At Knebworth 1990 for the first time on CD, double vinyl and all digital platforms on Friday, April 30, 2021. The concert was part of the star-studded 1990 Silver Clef Winners performance at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, headlined by Pink Floyd. Click here to pre-order. The monumentous Silver Clef Award Winners Knebworth […]

Daggy Man Is the solo moniker of singer-songwriter Thomas Calder. Calder started his musical career at age 21, self-recording his debut album Bleeders and releasing it to rave reviews. From humble beginnings, his music career has grown, producing five studio albums in six years. The moniker of “Daggy Man” has its origins in Calder’s fascination with pretending to be different characters throughout his […]

For songwriters, re-interpreting the work of their heroes and contemporaries has always been a thinly veiled gesture of connection—an act that simultaneously pays tribute to their roots and reveals to listeners a piece of who they are as an artist and human being. From the glam-blasts of David Bowie to the slacker fuzz of fellow […]

Few musicians invest so much in the moment as guitarist Wayne Krantz, whose career has been defined by a fearless embrace of risk and a willingness to charge headlong into uncharted terrain — testing himself and thrilling an ever-growing legion of dedicated, adventurous listeners. Whether experienced on record or in concert, Krantz’s singular style, immaculate technique, […]

Hailing from Santa Monica, Cameron Leahy is a songwriter and performer who began his career as a singer-songwriter for the rock outfit, The Downtown Fiction where Leahy earned a gold record for his song, “I Just Wanna Run.” With ranging styles indebted to artists across the spectrum—from The Beatles to Patsy Cline—Leahy’s songs approach storytelling […]

Sheers is the solo moniker of harpist, pianist, and singer Lily Breshears, a regular touring member of Haley Heynderickx and Alexandra Savior. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, and Frank Ocean, the music of Sheers is most easily described as neo-classical pop. And now for something completely unique, we have the elegantly ethereal “Wet Plastic” from […]

Hiss Golden Messenger will release the highly anticipated new album Quietly Blowing It (Merge Records) on June 25th. Written, arranged,  and produced by bandleader/songwriter M.C. Taylor, Quietly Blowing It is the follow-up to  2019’s critically acclaimed release Terms of Surrender, which has been nominated for a 2021  Grammy® Award for Best Americana Album. Released in […]

Robert Finley has announced Sharecropper’s Son, the career-defining new album from “the greatest living soul singer,” released on Easy Eye Sound, on May 21 2021. A soulful masterpiece written by Finley and co-written and produced by Dan Auerbach, Sharecropper’s Son features blues veterans and studio legends who have worked with everyone from Elvis to Wilson Pickett. […]

Deena Lynch aka Jaguar Jonze makes music for the moment of implosion. There’s no delay, there’s no need for it. Lynch’s music constantly occupies two spaces: one calling us in, lulling with its majestic, eternally frank beauty, the second unafraid to cut us right down to the quick, harshly slicing into our most vulnerable thoughts and feelings. […]