"It’s the diary of a young girl going through heartbreak, loss, betrayal, fame, insecurities, doubt, boundaries, self-care, and more than anything, healing. Healing as a young girl at the start of womanhood. Healing and being honest with everything that I’m feeling and experiencing, and bringing it into poetic light and making it very powerful" - […]
Drums & electronic duo Broken English Club made a "banging" remix of 'No Walls, No Air' by Gum Takes Tooth, adding "vocals and lyrics, essentially building a new track, albeit one with the same nerve-shredding build". The song is taken from Gum Takes Tooth's 'Arrow', an album the Quietus hears as "one of the LPs […]
Danger Mouse shared a previously unreleased track that he recorded with Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous, before Linkous' death in 2010. 'Ninjarous' features the rapper MF Doom. “Mark and I worked on a lot of music together,” Danger Mouse said in a statement - “but the song we did with MF DOOM was always one of Mark’s […]
Lauryn Hill released her new song 'Guarding the Gates', for the 'Queen & Slim' soundtrack, Crack Magazine reports. The song has been a part of Hill’s live show for a while, it’s a six-minute soul track with a divine lyric “What a tragedy, you can laugh at me, but I’m in love”. The movie is […]
“I had a dream/I got everything I wanted/But when I wake up I see/You with me” - Billie Eilish sings in her new song, her first new music after ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’. The lyrics make it seems like a message to lover, but it was written with her older […]
American queer rapper Zebra Katz is back with dark ballroom anthem 'IN IN IN', his first music since collaborating with Gorillaz on their 2017 album 'Humanz'. It's the first track to be shared from the rapper’s forthcoming project 'MOOR'. Listen to the song below.
"I previously had said to Sharon I should be doing an album, but in the back of my mind I was going ‘I haven’t got the fucking strength…’ but Andrew [Watt, producer and guitarst] pulled it out of me... I put my heart and soul into this album” - Ozzy Osbourne said about 'Ordinary Man', […]
‘I’m The Man’ was first heard, a snippet of it at least, in UK crime show 'Peaky Blinders', and it will come out on the upcoming 'Peaky Blinders' soundtrack album, as well as on Beth's solo album, NME reports. 'I'm the Man' is an industrial song, with emphasis on guitars, and some piano to finish […]
The song 'Bracer' is “about being disoriented and wanting to check out with a substance – I used whiskey”, Katie Gately said about her new song 'Bracer', coming out next year on her new album 'Loom', Stereogum reports. The experimental musician said she made this album after her mother died, and this song is "an […]
Julien Hairon has spent the last six years recording traditional music in Asia, Oceania and Africa, and now he has released his first songs, under the name Judgitzu. ‘Umeme’ is a 180bpm slice of brain-melting bass and ear-shredding synthesis, while on the flip ‘Kelele’ obscures the madness with field recordings of motorbike revs and animal […]
A great selection of songs released this week, chosen by Brooklyn Vegan (some were mentioned here before, so we're skipping those): cloud rap pioneer Clams Casino is back with a new song 'Rune', his album 'Moon Trip Radio' is out next week; Brooklyn rapper Junglepussy is in Halloween mood with 'Spiders'; former Titus Andronicus member Amy […]
Early next year indie-rock band the Innocence Mission will release their new album 'See You Tomorrow', and the first song from it they share is 'On Your Side', about people who have passed but still live beside us - “In my dream, I would be in Paris with my mom. In cafes she would sip […]
“The specter of dispossession is haunting us all. Everywhere the imperial world represses the ghoulish histories that sustain our pasts, presents and futures", Algiers' bassist and keyboardist Ryan Mahan says about band's new single 'Dispossession' (watch below). Lyrics on this song and their new record ‘There is No Year’, Mahan says, are "like a neo-Southern […]
"It’s the sound of the good times melting away and the twisted corners of the club coming alive and pulling you into their grasp. Depending on your stance, that’s either a complete nightmare, or some chaos you should embrace – this new song straddles the line carefully between the two" - NME writes about Tame […]
Coldplay have shared their video for 'Orphans', one of the songs from their new album 'Everyday Life', coming out November 22. The clip takes a behind-the-scenes look at the songwriting and recording process for 'Orphans'. A joyous song, a nice video, watch it below. Coldplay released another track, 'Arabesque', with Femi Kuti and his band […]
Experimental hip-hop duo TNGHT announced a new EP, 'II', coming out November 12 through Warp Records, which will be their first album in seven years. Their label says Hudson Mohawke and Lunice have, in the meantime, "collected more equipment, made a couple hits, own bigger speakers, loaded a thousand flutes into FL Studio”, as Fact Magazine reports. Lunice […]
"This EP has always been like my little doll, my little buddy. It's on such a sincere level for me. I need these songs" - Renée LoBue of the New York dream-pop band Elk City says about band's latest EP, 'Souls in Space'. A stand-out song from it is 'Pity of a Rose', an elegant […]
Some delightfully bizarre, punk-inflected jams - Fact Magazine says about the new OOIOO. 'Nijimusi' will be Japanese experimental rockers' first album in six years, and it features a conventional rock set up of two guitars, bass, and drums. It's coming out on January 17. First the song from it below.
Part of 'I Feel Saved' can be heard in the trailer for the new movie 'Age Out' (watch/listen below), directed by A.J. Edwards. The movie is scored by Colin Stetson (his unmissable sax is heard towards the end of the trailer).
DJ Premier announced a new Gang Starr album, titled 'One of the Best Yet' and due November 1, Hot New Hip Hop reports. It's band's first in 16 years, nine years after band's MC Guru died, and DJ Premier said he was "just very happy to be making music with Guru again". The album features J Cole, Q-Tip, Royce […]
The National frontman Matt Berninger is releasing a solo album 'Serpentine', produced and arranged by Booker T. Jones of Memphis soul group Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Rolling Stone reports. The first song out from it is 'Walking on a String', a collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers, which appears in Zach Galifianakis’ Netflix film 'Between Two […]
American indietronica band Poliça have a new song out, 'Driving' (watch below), and a new album, 'When We Stay Alive', coming out in January. The album was written, as Stereogum reports, when Poliça singer Channy Leaneagh fell off her roof in early 2018 and broke a vertebra - "Laying in bed, as I healed from a […]
Brooklyn Vegan made a good choice of new songs of the week. There are Petbrick, new industrial project from former Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera and Big Lad’s Wayne Adams, with guest vocals by Laima Leyton; Texas collective Golden Dawn Arkestra with their French pop-post-punk-krautrock-tropicalia project; first new Caribou song in five years; Sebastian give us pulsating new […]
'Deleter' is their first new album in four years, it will arrive on January 17, and it finds the band exploring the increasingly merging worlds of technology and humanity, as they said in a statement - "The robots are smarter than ever, and the algorithm knows more and more what we like as individuals, but […]
The Shins frontman James Mercer and superproducer Danger Mouse are back with a new single, 'Good Luck', by their indie-cool project Broken Bells. Listen to it below.
First of all, it's not as closely pretentious as it might sound, the same way Subrosa managed to incorporate violins and stay raw and sincere the way metal is known to do. The Night Watch are a four-piece from Canada, and Brooklyn Vegan says they make "beautiful, instrumental, violin-heavy folk music that fits equally within […]
"Identifying with that sense of having been duped for following your dreams in every closed shop window we passed" - Little Scream says about her latest album, 'Speed Queen', and her new song 'Disco Ball' (listen below). She made the album, Stereogum reports, "thinking about struggling as a musician, but having that be the thing that allows […]
Actor and singer David Hasselhoff has released a cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s 'Head On'. 'Baywatch' star has enlisted the Cars guitarist Elliot Easton for his revved-up version of the track (listen below), and it comes out this Friday on his forthcoming album 'Open Your Eyes', Pitchfork reports. The record is full of seemingly strange covers - […]
DJ Shadow has a new album 'Out Pathetic Age', coming out in November, and it's starry affair - Nas, Pharoahe Monche, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, De La Soul, Run the Jewels and more are featured, Fact Magazine reports. The album has 23 tracks, it is split into two sections, the first 11 songs are […]
"A reminder that we're not made to do life by ourselves" - Norwegian/Welsh folk-pop duo Firewoodisland says about their newest song 'Hollow Coves' (listen below). PopMatters says their music stands alongside the chamber/indie/folk pop-rock excellence of artists like Bon Iver, Of Monsters and Men, and Passenger. It comes out on band's 2nd album 'Firewoodisland', in 2020.
