Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary is set to release Born Stupid, his first solo album in 30 years, on February 12 via Shimmy Disc/Joyful Noise (pre-order). He's just released a second track from it, "What Are You Gonna Do?" which is… Read More
NYC indie punks Nervous Dater have announced the follow-up to their 2017 debut LP, Don't Be a Stranger. Call In The Mess, which was recorded pre-pandemic with producer Lorenzo Wolff, is due out February 26 via Counter Intuitive Records. It's… Read More
Half Waif, aka Nandi Rose Plunkett, released her best album yet, The Caretaker, last year, and now she's revealed her first new music of 2021. She has a new 7" due out February 24 via ANTI-, and she's shared its… Read More
Teenage Fanclub's anticipated 11th album, Endless Arcade was set to be released at the beginning of March but due to production delays, the album will now be out April 30 via Merge in North America and PeMa in the UK/EU.… Read More
Slaughter Beach, Dog released their fourth album album, At The Moonbase, just before the end of 2020. Of course, with the continuing coronavirus pandemic, they haven't been able to tour supporting it, so instead they've announced a pair of virtual… Read More
The late Eddie Van Halen would have turned 66 today (1/26), and in honor of his birthday, artist Robert Vargas will be unveiling his new mural of the legendary guitarist outside of the Guitar Center in Hollywood. When he began… Read More
Austrian indie-pop duo Leyya have played some of the world’s best festivals, including the Reeperbahn Festival, Primavera, Iceland Airwaves, and SXSW. Their catchy music has had more than 20 million listens on Spotify, and those clever hooks have wormed their… Read More
Reviewing music built primarily on instrumental ambience and drone is a Rorschach Test. Ambiguous responses may or may not reveal something about the imagery flowing through an individual’s head. Any interpretation is unscientific and does not reveal a single common… Read More
You’d be forgiven if you never foresaw Detlef Weinrich and Emmanuelle Parrenin teaming up. The former is a Dusseldorf DJ known for his machine-like krautrock grooves; the latter is a French harpist and hurdy-gurdyist who made a name among cratediggers… Read More
Steven Wilson has long been one of the most distinguished and adventurous, yet heavily scrutinized, artists in modern art/progressive rock. Be it the harsher trajectory of Porcupine Tree’s 2000s output, the avant-garde nature of 2012’s Storm Corrosion, or the unpredictability… Read More