new music

  • Wax Fang is a Louisville band that most recently released a space rock opera titled The Astronaut in 2014. I’m telling you this not only in case you mistook Interstellar for the greatest cosmic odyssey of that year, but also to set the tone for this premiere. “Pusher,” the

  • Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru dishes out an incredibly dense and quirky variety of art pop with this lead single from his new album, Toss. The album is his most collaborative effort yet and, although it was released in Japan toward the end of last year, it’s getting a proper

  • “Ravens” is our second glimpse of Mount Eerie’s forthcoming album A Crow Looked at Me, and it’s every bit as devastating as the lead track, “Real Death.” Probably even more so when you take into account its considerably longer runtime and beautifully photographed video, which contains (among other

  • With his new single, “Friend Zone,” Thundercat stood up to Valentine’s Day bullshit with an expectedly funky and funny song about, well, being stuck in the friend zone. It’s taken from the album Drunk, out February 24 via Brainfeeder.

  • Pharmakon’s latest single, “No Natural Order,” features what might just be her heaviest industrial noise composition and most piercing vocal performance to date. The track closes her third Sacred Bones album Contact, which drops March 31.

  • This past week, Animal Collective released The Painters, an EP of four tracks recorded during the sessions of their latest album Painting With (review). You can hear the opening track above; to our ears it’s a lot more stimulating than a lot of the material that made it onto