Swedish hardcore punks Refused shared their new song 'Blood Red', the lead single from the band’s forthcoming new album, 'War Music', out October 18th (watch the retrospective music video below). Consequence of Sound likes the song a lot - "[it] puts vocalist Dennis Lyxzén’s charismatic howls in the forefront, with some subtle artistic embellishments — like […]
Grand Canyon moved from their classic rock roots to psychedelic rock on their newest EP ('Yesterday's News, out August 2), with the leading track being '21st Century American Man' (listen below). A nearly seven-minute-long epic about self-liberation that sheds societal expectations was actually 25 minutes long in original take, which the California band insisted on […]
London-based 6-piece Black Country, New Road has a new single out (digitally), a powerful noise-rock song 'Sunglasses' with plenty of sax (watch below). On September 6 whey will issue 500 copies of single on 7'', each copy with different Polaroid images on each cover taken by the band; it comes out on Blank Editions.
Loudwire made our metal year so far much easier by compiling what they hear are best metal songs. It's not all, not everything is that great, but it's a start. So, they've got "an instant Amon Amarth classic" Raven's Flight, Born Of Osiris who "teeter between glitchy palm-muted chugs and atmospheric textures" in Cycles of […]
British alt-rock singer-songwriter Annabel Allum's new single 'When the Wind Stopped' finds her "blossoming as a songwriter", PopMatters says. "It's not a song that goes for the quick knockout. Rather it takes its time to penetrate the defenses with razor-sharp lyrical jabs and deftly constructed alt-pop hooks". The video is just as simple as it […]
The band says they blend alternative rock, shoegaze and trip-hop to create a sound that's both heavy and smooth, and PopMatters hears "the Cure at their heaviest" with "brilliant, cathartic drive of My Bloody Valentine". Palm Haze's album 'Rêve Bleu' comes out August 30.
Brooklyn Vegan presents the newest songs published this week, and there's a few that stand out - Beyonce's 'Mood 4 Eva' with Jay-z and Childish Gambino, the most upbeat song from 'The Lion King: The Gift'; Adam Green's 'Cheating on a Stranger' with Florence Welch, "a gorgeous, lush track"; and King Princess' soulful and groovy […]
The five-piece from Glasgow play tech-metal, and their vocalist Jamie McLees lists five reasons why we should like his band: the first British heavy band to be signed to Hopeless Records (home to Avenged Sevenfold and All Time Low) in their 25-year history; they’re fearless, "gloom is our home... It’s a space that’s the worst […]
'Ode To Joy' is Wilco's 11th studio album, it will see release October 4, and it is said to encourage the act of finding joy in a dark political climate, featuring tracks that frontman Jeff Tweedy characterizes as "really big, big folk songs, these monolithic, brutal structures that these delicate feelings are hung on", Exclaim reports. The […]
Electronic producer Alessio Natalizia, aka Not Waving has teamed with American alt-rock veteran Mark Lanegan on collaborative album, 'Downwelling', due August 2, Fact Magazine reports. Not Waving provides ambient backdrop, and Dark Mark (great alias, right?!?) shares his grizzled wisdom. Check out the video for single 'The Broken Man' below.
A very good selection of best songs of the week by the Brooklyn Vegan (or maybe a good week in general). LA trio Automatic will publish their first album for Stones Throw in September and 'Too Much Money' presents them as pop kraut-rock band, Ezra Furman goes in modern punk direction with 'Evening Prayer', Working […]
Glitchy folktronica and crunching beats by Bon Iver in 'Faith', total thumper in 'I Drive' by Lower Dens, hazy, summer evening by Boy Pablo & Jimi Somewhere in ‘Never Cared’, stonking chunk of psychedelic-flecked rock in 'Black Finch' by Goon, catchy R&B tune 'Simmer' by Mahalia, total sugar rush in 'Hey' by Oscar Lang, festival-ready […]
The choice: Rosalia's 'F*cking Money Man' because it defies"the notion that effortlessly fun pop music must be shallow by default", Bon Iver and 'Faith' for sounding "exultant", Jenny Hval with 'Ashes to Ashes' - "a bit of dark synth-pop that is far more fun to dance to than dissect", Pharmakon with 'Self-Regulating System' because "self-cannibalism", […]
Nas' dad Olu Dara is a jazz cornetist, he also played on several Nas' songs, so jazz is a thing in his music. His song 'Jarreau Of Rap (Skatt Attack)' reflects this jazz background - it's a collaboration with the late, great jazz singer Al Jarreau, who died in 2017, and a jazz trumpeter Keyon […]
Including: most left-brained new MC TisaKorean with his 'Double Dare', a gay anthem for summer 2019 'On A Roll' by Ashley O (Miley Cyrus, for un-Black Mirror fans), joyous sound of someone finally coming into his own in 'Let You Know by Flume, trademark agitated beauty by Hiss Golden Messenger in 'I Need A Teacher', unexpectedly […]
Post metal Chicagoan Russian Circles keep the fire burning - they still do it with passion and heart, so in their case, keeping up with the genre makes very much sence. Their new song 'Milano' in an example of sticking to the old with fresh energy (listen to it below). They have an album, 'Blood […]
Hundredth started at the beginning of this decade as a melodic hardcore band, on 2017’s 'RARE' they went in a more dreamlike, atmospheric direction, and this year they’re going in direction of atmospheric guitar heroism of early U2 or The Cure, as Brooklyn Vegan reports. Their newest single 'Cauterize' goes in that shoegazy direction (listen below), similar […]
Folk-pop Californian singer-songwriter Boy Scouts has a new song, 'Get Well Soon' where "dreamlike melodies meet crisp, straight-shooting production to develop a classic vibe throughout" (watch the video below). Boy Scouts signed to ANTI-, and has a new album due on 30 August , 'Free Company', recorded and produced entirely by minimalist pop maestro Stephen Steinbrink, […]
The supergroup Prophets of Rage - featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill - have released a new song, Blabbermouth reports. 'Made With Hate' is their first new track since last summer, and an album will follow - "we're growing and we're creating and we're going in a new territory […]
Moken is a Detroit-based afro-pop balladeer from Cameroon, with a recognizable deep baritone voice, and 'Machine Man' is his new song - "an exciting piece for the brilliantly unpredictable repertoire of the utterly unparalleled Moken" (PopMatters). Simply put, it's strange but pleasant. 'Machine Man' is out 8 August on album 'Missing Chapters'.
British dubstep master Burial has a new EP - ‘Claustro’ / 'State Forest', out now on Hyperdub. It's Burial's first solo release since 2017’s 'Pre Dawn' / 'Indoors' 12''. Listen to it on Bandcamp.
Carter Tutti Void is a collaborative triangle of Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void, and - the Quietus' favourite band. They have a new song 't3.5' - "all warm blood pulsing eroticism and hypnotic, narcotic fizz". Their new album 'Triumverate', their third and final album, will be released via Conspiracy International on August 30.
New York rapper Messiah has released 'Black Fathers', addressing the topic of fatherhood in the black community and the compelling need for fathers in the lives of their children (watch a video to she song below). The song features on Messiah's newly released project titled 'The Eye Of Freedom' now public on all digital platforms, […]
PJ Harvey has six new tracks - they are a part of the soundtrack to the Channel 4 mini-series 'The Virtues'. She previously released the soundtrack single 'The Crowded Cell' (watch it below). 'The Virtues' tells the story of Joseph, a man coming to grips with his identity as he uncovers repressed memories and seeks revenge, […]
Consequence of Sound picked stand out tracks of the week, and the No. 1 among them is 'Bored and Razed, new single from what will be The Raconteurs’ first album in over 10 years (coming out next week). It is an ode to Jack White’s native Detroit (lives in Nashville now). A riffy song...
Dan Snaith of Caribou fame will put out a new EP this summer with his project Daphni, and is leading off with its title track, 'Sizzling'. Here, he uses Paradise’s 1981 song 'Sizzlin' Hot' and spins it into a balmy dance track, Stereogum says. Check it out below.
Apart from tracks we already picked out (Slowthai, JARV IS..., Skepta, Tyler, the Creator...), Guardian makes a colourful choice of June's 50 best new tracks. There's summer-bangers in the making ('Why Don't You Just Call Me' Antony & Cleopatra), pop-rock ('Playground' Steve Lazy), metal bangers (Slipknot and Employed to Serve), although the London paper thinks […]
This song brings to question the process in which economic value is prescribed to cultural artifacts, how that value is exploited through storing them in high security storage facilities (like the Geneva Freeport) to avoid paying taxes, and how it all seems so antithetical to why most artists create their work in the first place […]
Brooklyn Vegas has the best selection of new songs this week. They've assembled quite a diverse bunch, there are: Metronomy with a spacey-rock song, lo-fi rock Palehound, Damon Albarn's funk collective Africa Express, Cross Record with ambient-rock song, indie-rockers Crumb, garage punks Plague Vendor, singer-songwriter Daughter of Swords, goth-metalheads Pinkish Black, psychedelic rock by Psychedelic […]
It's titled 'Giant Baby' and it it is a kind of a lullaby, slightly psychedelic. It's mostly Wayne Coyne singing with an acoustic guitar in the background. A nice song actually, not that weird at all, it features The Clash guitarist Mick Jones, narrating a story about a - giant boy. Listen to it below. […]
