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Album Of The Week: Yves Tumor

Allow me to reintroduce Yves Tumor. Actually, allow 'Gospel For A New Century' to do it. The first song on Tumor's new album Heaven To A Tortured Mind is a triumphal entry -- the sound of royalty strutting into town with exultant swagger, flanked by a resplendent posse, with the grandeur of Prince Ali's marching menagerie and the grit of Furiosa barreling down the Fury Road on a War Rig. In sync with..

The My Generation: An Oral History Of Myspace Music

All Gareth David wanted to do was find a few friends. And if they were into indie rock, so much the better. He had just enrolled at Cardiff University, and he didn't know anyone at all. Fortunately, he had just discovered Myspace right before heading out to university. '[Myspace] had a really amazing ability to search for bands,' he remembers. 'So just searching for people with Pavement in their profile..

Dula Peep Did The Damn Thing

Future Nostalgia was meant for the club. This much is clear. Even before she released lead single 'Don't Start Now' last fall, Dua Lipa was talking about taking inspiration from the disco era: 'I feel like you could dance through the whole record,' she told The Face. The British pop star has been working her way back to Studio 54 ever since her tropical-house jam 'New Rules' broke big on both sides.. Ib questionbank ess.

Premature Evaluation: Thundercat It Is What It Is

People don’t talk about George Duke enough. The man was a goddamn genius. After leading his own group for a few years, he began playing keyboards behind violinist Jean-Luc Ponty in 1969. This brought him into Frank Zappa’s orbit, at the same time that he joined saxophonist Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley's band. Duke bounced between Zappa's and Adderley's bands until about 1974, at which point his..

I Will Be Turns 10

The buzzy, big-name albums from 2009 were artsy and ambitious. Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, and Grizzly Bear would dominate year-end lists, but at the same time those albums were blowing up, a strain of music was taking hold that engaged with a completely opposite aesthetic: not giving a shit, or at least pretending not to give a shit. The summer of chillwave, which emphasized low fidelity..

John Prine In Critical Condition With COVID-19

John Prine is hospitalized and in critical condition with COVID-19 symptoms, according to a statement from the Prine family that was posted on the musician's social media accounts. 'After a sudden onset of Covid-19 symptoms, John was hospitalized on Thursday (3/26),' it reads. 'He was intubated Saturday evening, and continues to receive care, but his situation is critical.' 'This is hard news for..

Drake Is No Longer Hiding A Child

Before he was old enough to form words or poop in a potty, Adonis Graham played a pivotal role in the most entertaining rap feud in recent years. The existence of Drake's baby son was most newsworthy thing about 'The Story Of Adidon,' the absolutely brutal Drake diss that Pusha-T released almost two years ago. That whole kerfuffle has died down, but Drake has waited until this moment to show pictures..

Michael Stipe Shares New Aaron Dessner Collab

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe has been slowly building to a solo album. Last year, he said that he had 18 new songs ready to go, and over the last few months we've gotten two of them, 'Your Capricious Soul' and 'Drive To The Ocean.' Stipe has been stuck inside like the rest of us -- he capitalized on the pandemic-related resurgence of 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' with a video..

Clairo released her debut album, Immunity, last year. It ended up having some lasting earworms on it, as it popped up on both our Favorite Songs and Top Pop Songs… More »

Moses Sumney introduced his new double-album græ to the world with “Virile,” a remarkable song with an equally remarkable video expanding on the song’s exploration of masculinity and the black… More »

Boston Calling is the latest event to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The 2020 edition of the festival has been outright cancelled. It was supposed to take place from… More »

Album Of The Week

Album Of The Week: Yves Tumor Heaven To A Tortured Mind

Allow me to reintroduce Yves Tumor. Actually, allow “Gospel For A New Century” to do it. More »

The psychedelic rock wizard Ty Segall isn’t the type to sit idle. Segall released First Taste, his last solo album, back in August. Since then, Segall has also teamed up… More »

A little under three years ago, Nick Hakim released his debut album, Green Twins. And while the psychedelic soul of that collection garnered him plenty of acclaim, the years since… More »

At the beginning of May, veteran folk whisperer Damien Jurado is releasing his fifteenth (!) album, What’s New, Tomboy?, the follow-up to last year’s In The Shape Of A Storm. More »

For the past 30 years, Jacob Bannon has led the Boston band Converge, which makes him a legend in the interlocking underground worlds of both hardcore and metal. More recently,… More »

Colombian-Canadian musician Lido Pimienta is her releasing her new album Miss Colombia, the follow-up to her Polaris Prize-winning 2016 debut La Papessa, in a couple of weeks. We’ve already heard… More »

The Mountain Goats has been a full-on band for many years, but the project started out as just John Darnielle recording blood-and-fire acoustic songs into his Panasonic boombox. Thanks to… More »

At the end of the week, Yaeji is putting her first full-length project, a mixtape called WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던, which comes on the heels of a couple years… More »

Lame-O Records is a great label based out of Philadelphia, and today they are releasing Don’t Stand So Close To Me, a compilation that highlights the artists on their roster. More »

Adam Schlesinger, the longtime Fountains Of Wayne frontman and one-man power-pop factory, has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Billboard reports that Schlesinger has been on a ventilator for more than a… More »

Last week, sad news arrived that Psychic Ills frontman Tres Warren had passed away at 41. Warren had been a prolific artist in his life, and as it turns out… More »

In May, Jess Williamson is releasing a new album, Sorceress, the follow-up to 2018’s Cosmic Wink. She shared “Wind On Tin” from it in February, and today she’s back with… More »