On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union after months of campaigning. The vote – coined Brexit (a portmanteau of Britain and Exit) – was predicted to end in Remain’s favour. Much of the polls… Read More
Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney brought Superwolf out of hibernation earlier this year, and now they're back another new song, credited under their own collaborative names. Recorded at Nashville's Butcher Shoppe, "Make Worry for Me" is heavy with bluesy atmosphere,… Read More
A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg died in March of 2016, just a few months before the release of We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service, the rap group's first album in 26 years. (It was one… Read More
Radiohead have shared a new statement following a recent hearing investigating Domenic Cugliari, the engineer who had been responsible for the design of the stage at Toronto's Downsview Park that collapsed in June of 2012, killing drum technician Scott Johnson.… Read More
NYC jazz group Uncivilized are gearing up to release a new album, Garden, which they recorded live at Brooklyn's Pioneer Works on August 23, 2018, with the great trumpeter Jaimie Branch joining them on half the songs. "This is the… Read More
Halifax's POSTDATA, the project of Wintersleep frontman Paul Murphy, will release new album Twin Flames on March 5 via Paper Bag. Murphy made the record with producer Ali Chant and drummer Matt Brown, and he describes the tone as “inward-looking… Read More
James Blake appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to do a bare-bones, piano-and-vocal cover of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (made famous by Roberta Flack), and he also released a studio version and announced that it will appear on… Read More
Elizabeth Bear’s latest novel is titled Machine, but the term could easily refer to its author. Her literary output is astonishing: 32 novels in 15 years, not to mention a rich assortment of short stories and essays. How does she… Read More
Kelsey Waldon said she feels a special responsibility as a Southerner to improve the human rights of people living in America. She has cited racial injustice and the marginalization of the poor as causes that need to be addressed. That’s… Read More
The synthpads come in, slowly and calmly. You are at peace. It sounds like a Windham Hill record, even. Soon, you are greeted by a calming, deep voice. It’s the voice of Katya, a Boston-born drag queen who has a… Read More