Last year, Cornelius released Dream In Dream, his first album in six years. Today, the Japanese avant-pop musician is announcing its follow-up, Ethereal Essence, and sharing the single “Sketch For Spring.”
Jeff Rosenstock has dropped off the Booze Cruise festival, an event that is scheduled to take place in Hamburg, Germany later this spring. Rosenstock was announced as the top-billed headliner for the fest back in March. “After a lot of thought and offline conversations, we will not be playing this years Booze Cruise,” Rosenstock wrote in a statement. “I’m deeply sorry to anyone who was looking forward to seeing us. Free Palestine and stop using our tax dollars to fund fascism and genocide instead of health care.”
Taylor Swift released The Tortured Poets Department, a surprise double album, last week. On Monday night, Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe sat down for a conversation with The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis ahead of the release of their new album Nonetheless. Naturally, Swift came up as a topic of conversation.
David Gilmour has announced Luck AndA Strange, his first new album since 2015’s Rattle That Lock. The Pink Floyd legend will release the LP on Sept. 6, and he’s sharing the lead single “The Piperas Call” today.
Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego sound almost relieved to be playing in their new band, Deerlady. Though neither is a total stranger to the world of indie rock, they’ve both found success in recent years in other musical milieus. Obomsawin, a Berklee-trained bassist and composer, tours the jazz festival circuit as the leader of the Mali Obomsawin Sextet. In 2022, she released an acclaimed free jazz album called Sweet Tooth, which she sang entirely in the Abenaki language. Abrego also has a jazz background that runs through Berklee; she studied guitar performance there before moving on to the New England Conservatory of Music, where she’d eventually become a faculty member. On Greatest Hits, Deerlady’s winkingly titled debut album, those biographies dissolve, and Obomsawin and Abrego tap into something more instinctive.
salute, the plugged-in producer who has been putting out music for more than a decade, has announced a new album, TRUE MAGIC, which will be out in July. It includes collaborations with Disclosure, Karma Kid, Sam Gellaitry, and more, and we’ve already heard its Empress Of-featuring single “system.”
The Get Up Kids have announced a 25th anniversary tour for Something To Write Home About, and they’ll play the album in full each night. The anniversary shows starts with an appearance at Four Chord Music Fest in Pittsburgh at the end of June; the tour picks up in earnest in August, and runs through October culminating in the second wave emo fest Best Friends Forever in Las Vegas.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse kicked off their first tour in five years last night at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre in San Diego. Young opened the show with a new version of his classic “Cortez The Killer,” with a lost verse added in.
Last year, Chicago’s very own Sen Morimoto released a new album, Diagnosis. Today, he’s back with some tracks that were written around the same time but left off the final LP. The BONK! EP features four two Sen Morimoto songs and a live take on the LP’s title track that was recorded at WXPN.
Until this week, Corridor hadn’t released an album in half a decade. They’ve made good use of that time. The MontrA(c)al band have always put their own spin on post-punk, mixing a tight, jittery rhythm section with a florid and expansive melodic palette and the firepower to really and truly rock out. Those tendencies remain on new album Mimi, but it’s all elevated into a holographic state, sometimes smeared and blurry, sometimes stunningly crystalline.
Softcult, the duo of Toronto twin siblings Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn, were a Stereogum Band To Watch last year, and they’ll release their new EP Heaven next month. By the time the record comes out, we’ll probably already know all the songs, since Softcult like to drop one track at a time. We’ve already posted the title track, “Haunt You Still,” “Shortest Fuse,” and “Spiralling Out.” Today, they’ve also shared “One Of The Pack,” the fifth advance single from this six-song EP.
Three years ago, New York indie rockers Lightning Bug dropped their album A Color Of The Sky on Fat Possum. Next week, they’ll follow that LP with the entirely self-released new one No Paradise. We’ve posted the early singles “December Song” and “Opus,” and now they’ve released another one.
Two years ago, the soft and incisive Brooklyn indie-folk band Florist released a really good self-titled album. Now, they’re part of the soundtrack for I Saw The TV Glow, the new indie horror film from We’re All Going To The World’s Fair director Jane Schoenbrun. Fred Durst and Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan both act in the movie, and it’s got a score from Alex G, as well as a soundtrack album full of indie rock heavyweights. We’ve already posted Yeule’s cover of the Broken Social Scene classic “Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old Girl,” and now Florist have shared their contribution.
Mike Pinder, original keyboardist for hugely successful British rockers the Moody Blues, has died. Pinder was the last surviving original member of the band; his former bandmate Denny Laine, also of Wings, passed away a few months ago. John Lodge, who joined the Moody Blues in 1966, broke the news of Pinder’s passing on Twitter. No cause of death has been reported. Pinder was 82.
Earlier this month, the New York trio +/i announced their first new album in a decade, Further Afield, and shared its lead single “Borrowed Time.” Further Afield is out late next month, and today the band is sharing a second new song from it, the 7-minute “Gondolier.”
Louis Cole is an LA-based producer and multi-instrumentalist whose music freely travels among genres but usually ends up somewhere on the Hot Chip side of things. That’s a good side to be on! Cole released the compilation Some Unused Songs last year, and now he’s getting ready to follow up his last studio LP, 2022’s Quality Over Opinion, with a new one called nothing.
Greg Cerwonka, guitarist for Chula Vista hardcore thrash bashers Take Offense, recently logged some serious miles as a touring guitarist for Turnstile. Now, Cerwonka is back in his main band, and they’re preparing to drop the new album T.O.tality on us. We’ve posted the early singles “Greetings From Below” and “Assassination,” and now they’ve hit us upside the head with their new ripper “S.W.O.”
Last year, Actress shared his latest album LXXXVIII. The British electronic producer Darren Cunningham is back today, announcing its follow-up, Statik, and releasing lead singles “Dolphin Spray” and “Static.”
Last year, Gel unleashed their forceful debut album Only Constant. Today, the New Jersey hardcore linchpins are announcing their new EP Persona and sharing the gnarly lead single “Mirage” with a music video directed by Eric Richter.
Usher is having a big year a the R&B linchpin released a new album called Coming Home and performed at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Today, he took to Instagram Stories to tell a story about how his son recently stole his phone to try to link up with PinkPantheress.
Earlier this year, Rachel Bobbitt shared a new song entitled “& What For?,” along with a cover of Broadcast’s aTears In The Typing Pool.a Last year, the Toronto art-pop musician also covered the Cranberriesa “Dreams.” Today, she’s back with a breathtaking rendition of Arthur Russell’s “You Can Make Me Feel Bad.”
Today is Kelly Clarkson’s 42nd birthday. The pop singer has given us countless great covers on her show’s Kellyoke segment a including Bloc Partyas aLike Eating Glassa and Red Hot Chili Peppersa aCanat Stop” a and she celebrated the special occasion by inviting Seattle rock band Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson to sing some of their classics on the latest episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show.
A couple of months ago, Bat For Lashes announced the new album The Dream Of Delphi. So far, the project of Natasha Khan has shared the title track and “Letter To My Daughter.” Today, she’s back with the new single “Home.”
Last week, Pearl Jam released their 12th album Dark Matter. To promote it, the rock veterans went on SiriusXMas The Howard Stern Show, which aired on Monday, and discussed the lore behind some of their hits.
Spoon were not supposed to play in Austin this past Saturday.
After responding to Kendrick Lamar and his other foes with “Push Ups,” Drake unleashed a second diss track at K.dot over the weekend. This one, known as the “Taylor Made Freestyle,” features AI vocals from the late Tupac Shakur (a Kendrick hero who appears in sampled form in the interview at the end of To Pimp A Butterfly) and Snoop Dogg (who also shows up on TPAB). As you might expect, 2Pac’s estate is not thrilled about this unauthorized use of his voice.
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