Archive: 2021

Grandaddy has released a new EP entitled 2020’s Over Covers, featuring poignant solo piano versions of Belle & Sebastian’s “The Fox In The Snow” and The Beach Boys “In My Room” by Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle.  The recordings were initially released as B-sides to the Black Friday Record Store Day 12” vinyl EP “RIP Coyote Condo […]

The Reverberation Appreciation Society is proud to announce the second entry of its Live at Levitation series with festival founders — The Black Angels. The LP captures a slice of the early days, recorded at Austin Psych Fest 2010, 2011 and 2012, with 6 tracks from their first two albums. The artists and sets showcased […]

On March 5, Eric D. Johnson’s Fruit Bats will return with The Pet Parade, an album that emerges in troubled times, living within what Johnson refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence. Pre-order the record today on CD, LP, and red and black swirl Peak Vinyl in the Merge store or wherever records […]

Mogwai are proud to release their new single “Ritchie Sacramento”, the second song to be taken from their forthcoming tenth studio album As The Love Continues. Supported by quietly melodic vocals, “Ritchie Sacramento” oscillates between moments of tranquility and disorder. The track’s video was created within the Unreal Games Engine by director Sam Wiehl, who has […]

Steve Hackett may call his new album, Under A Mediterranean Sky, an acoustic album but it’s truthfully a breathtaking journey across the landscape of melody and instrumentation. Invoking the dramatic pulse of battle to the sweeping romanticism of Egyptian sunsets, Hackett has produced an album for the bodily senses, culled from his many years of […]

This is no time for faint hearts. The pandemic might have silenced the music scene, shuttered the live circuit and divided artists from their fans. But with Heart Of Fire, Texas’s favourite new gunslinger Ally Venable is coming off the ropes swinging. Defying dark times and rolling up the amps, this fourth release from the […]

Rupert Lange AKA Rupe is a 21-year-old singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Northern Louisiana. Check out the kaleidoscopic and witty new single “Box Fan” (below) from Rupe. Warm and colorful guitar styling paint the scene as a solid drum beat pulses forward, and swirling harmonies align. Singing with confident and inviting charm, Lange breathes fresh air into […]

Nathaniel Paul is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter based in Brooklyn. He was born in Michigan City, IN, and began his music career in NYC in 2015. Check out Paul’s passionate new single “Songbird,” a bold musical statement with cutting vocal dynamics that weave throughout warm and fastidious instrumental color. Paul possesses an acute sense of production […]

New Orleans funk powerhouse Dumpstaphunk has announced their new album Where Do We Go From Here, set to release on April 23, 2021 (via Mascot Label Group / The Funk Garage). The release marks the band’s first full-length album in seven years, and undeniably the most powerful and politically pointed of their career. Previously released singles […]

The Mountain Goats started 2021 on the small screen Friday night with a rapturous TV performance of “Get Famous” for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The band (comprised of John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, Peter Hughes, and Jon Wurster) recorded the session late last year at Overdub Lane with an expanded band including Dexter Moses and Annalise […]

A fitting title, Passenger. And what a ride it has been for Michael Rosenberg, the 36-year-old singer-songwriter from Brighton. Certainly, there are humble beginnings to this story. Rosenberg embarked on his musical journey young, seemingly forced in the direction of his dreams, the path he was destined for. With a clear and simple direction: write […]

The self-titled album Corey Ledet Zydeco is this Zydeco star’s 14th album since releasing his full-length debut in 2004, 3 Years 2 Late. His 2012 release Nothin’ But The Best was nominated for a Grammy in 2013. Corey Ledet Zydeco is being released by Arnaudville, Louisiana’s Nouveau Electric Records January 15th on CD, digital download […]

COVID-19 has taken live music from us, but it has been interesting to see how musicians have responded to the pandemic. Some have written protest songs. Some seem to have found a deep creative well while being stuck at home. Some, like Countless Thousands, have created a rock opera. Yes, that’s right. This punk band […]

Peruvian artist Caye Castagnetto’s (they/them) highly anticipated debut LP Leap Second is out January 22nd on Castle Face Records. Influenced by a life split between Lima, London, and Twentynine Palms, Peru-born Caye Castagnetto’s Leap Second is an intriguingly personal and hard to classify debut album. The album is a thick collage of samples Caye recorded with different artists […]

On Jesse Forever’s new record I was electrocuted seven times and now I can see the future, we bear witness to a time capsule of moments from seven years of Jesse Scheinin’s life. From living in an unfinished basement in Brooklyn to the edge of the valley of Ouro Preto, Brazil, the record is a […]

ØZWALD is the indie side project of lead singer and guitarist Jason Wade and Steve Stout of the band Lifehouse. Wade and Stout started the project over a bond of the Beatles and wrote songs where they both sang together in a new project with no rules. Check out the psychedelic and crafty new single “10pm at the Greyhound […]

Hockey movies are significantly underrated. It’s as simple as that. From the Hanson brothers to the Flying V to Herb Brooks, hockey and cinema are a great pairing. There’s a wide variety of movies out there that can meet the needs of casual to die-hard hockey fans. If you are looking for a history lesson, […]

The world has battled the rising use of nicotine and marijuana use by U.S. teens. While those usage numbers have leveled off, the amount of use is still too high according to researchers. There is a date to support that from 2017 to 2019, the percentage of teens that vaped nicotine the past year doubled. […]