Next Week in Music | June 7-13 • The Long List: 650 Releases On...
Yeah, you read that right: There are about 650 albums, EPs, singles, soundtracks, box sets, compilations, anthologies and vinyl reissues arriving next week. Why? Well, next Saturday is the...
Next Week in Music | June 7-13 • New Books
The Lizard King and Old Blue Eyes, Tupac and Prince, Kid A and Queen Bey — next week's reading list has no shortage of big names. Let's meet them...
Next Week in Music | June 7-13 • On TV
The late-night talk shows are back in business after a week off, and they're not skimping on the music: John Mayer, The Wallflowers, Migos, T-Pain, Wiz Khalifa, Sharon Van...
Sonic Reducers | Boxing With The Beach Boys
I like The Beach Boys as much as the next old fart. But I'm not so much a fan of their archival box sets, which are often too light...
Albums Of The Week: Talk Show Host | Mid-Century Modern
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Mid-Century Modern, the debut LP from Toronto power-pop punk trio Talk Show Host, declares its love for ’90s punk, larger-than-life guitars, catchy pop melodies and...
Albums Of The Week: Turner Cody & The Soldiers Of Love | Friends In...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Turner Cody is a kaleidoscopic songwriter. His poetry has always come first — whether spun into the raw, sparse bedroom-style tapes of his early lo-fi,...
Albums Of The Week: Swift Silver | Swift Silver
Swift Silver’s self-titled debut marks a meaningful milestone for Southern songwriters Anna Kline and John Looney as a 180° (re)turn to their musical roots: the drawling tremolo of rhythm and...
Albums Of The Week: Slimey Things | Quantum Reality TV Reissue
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Slimey Things were first sighted in the venues of Sydney's underground. Over half a decade of making music and touring, this sextet of pseudo-pop psychos...
Albums Of The Week: Red Fang | Arrows
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “I like the idea of the record starting in a way that doesn’t make any sense at all for a Red Fang record.” That’s vocalist/bassist...
Albums Of The Week: New Candys | Vyvyd
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Hailing from Venice, Italy, New Candys formed in 2008. Described as dark modern rock ’n’ roll, the band combine noisy, brooding sounds with distinct melodies...
Albums Of The Week: Nephila | Nephila
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “With its sprawlings spider legs, masked Swedes Nephila channel vintage sounds with their flashing guitar solos and psychedelic melodies. The sound is hard to categorize...
Albums Of The Week: Dez Dare | Hairline Ego Trip
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Built in the crystalline shadows and existential backwaters of the psyche, Dez Dare constructs psych-hymns, soft-punk, that punches you in the brain while tenderly calling...
Albums Of The Week: Cleopatrick | Bummer
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Two friends (guitarist/vocalist Luke Gruntz and drummer Ian Fraser) meet aged four in Hicksville, Nowheretown (real name: Cobourg, Ontario, population 19,000), grow up completely inseparable,...
Albums Of The Week: Wolf Alice | Blue Weekend
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It is now more than a decade since Wolf Alice began; first as a duo made up of Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Joff Oddie, then...
Albums Of The Week: Crowded House | Dreamers Are Waiting
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The legendary New Zealand group Crowded House have released their first new album in over a decade. The band’s lineup on Dreamers Are Waiting includes...
