By Jon Pareles Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn, ‘Breath Out’ “Time to let go now/You can breathe out,” Dawn Richard advises, offering solace with glimmers of underlying tension, in “Breath Out,” a preview of “Quiet in a World Full of Noise,”…
The British-Brazilian singer-songwriter, who’s just released her first album ‘Flower of the Soul’, hopes her music can offer momentary escapism [NME] By Sophie Williams urveying the tourists congregating around St. James’s Park’s Duck…
“Breath Out” leads Quiet in a World Full of Noise, the duo’s follow-up to Pigments [Pitchfork] By Jazz Monroe Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn are back with a new album, Quiet in a World Full of Noise. The follow-up to 2022’s Pigments arrives…
Once an indie darling, Mitski’s 2023 hit “My Love Mine All Mine” has taken her to brand new heights. Over a billion streams later, and she remains offline and unwilling to give into the machine that pleads for her to enable parasociality. …
By Rob Salkowitz It was twilight on the longest day of the year when James McMurtry and his three bandmates took the stage at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern, the latest stop on a six week tour through the Pacific and mountain west. The show had…
By Chris Willman It’s difficult to believe that JD McPherson, one of the great classic-minded rock ‘n’ roll singer-songwriters of the modern age, hasn’t had a new album of non-seasonal material out in seven years. That absence of fresh…
After escaping a deadly apartment fire, the indie singer-songwriter levels up with a new album full of brilliant, intense songs NE NIGHT LAST summer, Allegra Krieger woke up to an apartment full of smoke. Unable to unlock the fire escape,…
To mark the halfway point of 2024, Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and NPR Culture Desk producer Isabella Gomez Sarmiento run down their favorite releases of the year so far, from a career-defining release from Nathy Peluso, a leveling up…
Listen here! About The Indigo Girls Since 1985, Emily Sailers and Amy Ray have been known as the Indigo Girls, and they’ve never once stopped making music or sharing their message of acceptance. The two met when they were kids in Decatur,…
We spoke with Blair Howerton in an exclusive profile upon the announcement of her band’s sophomore LP, Wish on the Bone. Watch the visualizer for “Fake Out” below. By Matt Mitchell [Paste Magazine] When you’re as influenced by Sheryl Crow…
The power-pop pioneer and former Rockpile member teams up with Los Straitjackets to release Indoor Safari, his first album of original songs in more than 12 years [Rolling Stone] In his rollicking new single “Went to a Party,” Nick Lowe…
Stands For deciBels, the 1981 debut from the dB’s, didn’t make much of a commercial impression, but it enthralled a small legion of college-rock loyalists soon to swoon over bands like R.E.M., whose members are among the many who cite the…
By Mark Smotroff [Analog Planet] After the global onslaught of post-punk new-wave artists in the late 1970s like Elvis Costello, Blondie, Television, The B-52s, and Talking Heads, a barrage of U.S. groups like R.E.M., The Bongos, The…
The nearly century-old country blues song has been a staple of the duo’s live sets for years. By Gil Kaufman Robert Plant has mostly kept his Led Zeppelin past at arms-length since the group officially disbanded in 1980. But there are a…
In addition to rendition of “The Biggest Lie,” Sophie Allison also debuts a handful of new songs at latest gig [Rolling Stone] BY DANIEL KREPS Soccer Mommy welcomed guest Phoebe Bridgers onstage Tuesday during her Los Angeles gig, with the…
His latest album, Coyote, finds him reconnecting with his father, and becoming a dad himself: “It’s your responsibility as an adult to get your shit together” Growing up, Dylan LeBlanc bounced between households — his mother’s in…
Best known as a member of Portishead, the English singer releases her first solo studio album, ushering listeners into a dark, mythical musical world. [Wall Street Journal] By Mark Richardson In June 2013, the label Domino announced that…
With “Lives Outgrown,” her first album of her own songs in 22 years, the pensive voice of the trip-hop group confronts maturity and mortality. [New York Times] By Jon Pareles “All trying but can’t escape/All going to nowhere,” Beth Gibbons…
Taking place this summer and fall in support of his 2023 album, Now [Consequence of Sound] Eddie Fu An artist pre-sale for the fall dates will commence on Thursday, May 9th (sign up for first access here) in anticipation of the general on…
By Ben Salmon To begin to understand the restorative power of the band Agriculture, it helps to start in the “Inventions” section of the online Wiki for Calvin and Hobbes. That’s where you’ll find a detailed description of the…
Interpol has a devoted following in Latin America, and they’ve always been particularly popular in Mexico, where lead singer Paul Banks spent time living as a teenager. On Saturday, April 20, the elegant masters of shadow-toned rock & roll…
Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced a new album, When I’m Called, his first for Fat Possum, which will be out July 12. The album was produced by his longtime collaborator James Elkington, and it features contributions from Blake Mills, Joan…
By Kevin Stewart-Panko [Decibel] Austin, TX-based power trio Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol sound just about as big and dumb as their moniker would imply. They’re also as ridiculously awesome as their big, dumb moniker would imply. Since…
Both bands will perform equal-length sets, switching the order of performances with each show BY ALTHEA LEGASPI [Rolling Stone] My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats have teamed up for a co-headlining tour that runs…
Big Dumb Riffs by Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol on the web:Website | Bandcamp |Release date: March 22, 2024Label: Permanent Teeth By Geoff Topley I’m sure there’s a reason or back story as to how Rickshaw…
With 2022’s spine-tingling debut ‘Unlearning’, Glasgow glam-pop collective Walt Disco marked themselves out as one of the most intriguing outfits on the UK’s alternative scene. On brilliant follow-up ‘The Warping’, however, they’re…
By Mark Pelavin Rock icon Jonathan Richman, who delighted an appreciative crowd at the Avalon Theatre last week, was dancing like no one was watching long before most of us had ever heard the phrase. In addition to writing a slew of great…
Download & stream Die Spitz on Audiotree Live → https://lnk.to/AT-DieSpitz Austin, TX bred, Die Spitz exploded onto the scene with their absolute ripper of an EP, “Teeth.” During their Audiotree Live performance, Die Spitz delivers a…