Wild Flag is a new rock supergroup featuring Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weis of Sleater-Kinney, Mary Timony of Helium, and Rebecca Cole from Minders. They’ve been working on their debut LP with producer Chris Woodhouse via Merge. The first frenetic wave of their flag is the single “Glass Tambourine,
Arctic Monkeys have posted a new song and video to their YouTube Channel, the groovy and riff-driven “Brick by Brick”. The video interplays a record player with the actual making of a record. James Ford is reportedly working with the band in Los Angeles on their follow-up to 2009’s
A video for “25th Hour,” which is off Reks‘ new album, R.E.K.S. (Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme). –
On their latest single, Explosions In the Sky has condensed their usual sound into a 3-minute epic. It might be shocking for newer fans to hear the band put out something shorter, but it’s not like they haven’t experimented with being straightforward before. My issue is mostly with
As much as it pains me to say this, there’s not much about this new Raekwon album that excites me. The beats attempt to copy the trademark RZA sound, the rhymes are decent at best, and the features are simply alright, too. It’s pretty obvious that this release
A new track from New York’s Here We Go Magic. If you remember, last year’s Pigeons got a pretty positive review. It had a few rough spots, but I really admire where this band is going with their sound. The light, krautrock-ish textures are a fantastic fit for
Anna von Hausswolff is a Swedish singer-songwriter whose 2010 album, Singing From the Grave, went painfully unnoticed on our side of the pond. There was no physical release over here, so PR was probably limited. Anyway, there’s a bit of press fodder on the website of Anna’s label,
And another track drops from the forthcoming, self-titled Holy Ghost! album. “Wait and See” is pretty different from the odd dance “Do It Again” was doing, but it’s still a big win in my book. My ears are watering at the thought of hearing the rest of this LP.
