rock
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The Last Shadow Puppets deliver a great cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Is This What You Wanted.” The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming EP Dream Synopsis, which drops December 2 via Domino.
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Jeff Rosenstock drops a pretty ambitious and conceptual follow-up to last year’s We Cool?.
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American Football’s sad but nimble sound has been replaced with soft rock complacency on their new comeback album.
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Foxygen drops a stunning chamber pop odyssey that has singlehandedly restored my faith in the duo after their massive 2014 blunder, which shall go unnamed.
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Green Day’s latest release isn’t quite as cringeworthy as I was expecting, but there are still plenty of cringes to be had.
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A cut from An Odd Entrances, the companion album to Thee Oh Sees’ great recent release A Weird Exits. It comes out November 18 via Castle Face and 50% of the money made from the first pressing will go to Elizabeth House.
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I wanna shout out this band Flowertruck, who will be the supporting act for my November 13th show at the Newtown Social Club in Sydney. They have an EP titled Dirt out via Spunk Records; above you can try a track from that. And details for my Australian tour are
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Preoccupations–formerly Viet Cong–return with a new album and a darker sound.
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One of 2016’s most badass rock cuts comes courtesy of Sonic Youth founder, Kim Gordon.