Next Week in Music | June 1-7 • The Long List: 230 Releases On...
Well, we made it through May. Or at least that's how it looks from here. Assuming that things don't go straight to hell in the next few hours, here...
Next Week in Music | June 1-7 • New Books
It's been feast or famine in the book stacks lately. This week is strictly from hunger. In fact, there are only two main choices: Clash and Cash. Kind of...
Next Week in Music | June 1-7 • On TV
Gaga and Doja and Sia — not to mention Monsters and Killers, a Town and a Bay, a Chance, a Charli and plenty of other performers plying their trade...
Pins | Hot Slick
"How can I be wrong when it feels so right?" Pins ponder on their third album Hot Slick. Truer words were never spoken. Deftly splitting the dif between disco,...
Laveda | What Happens After
Is it just me, or is shoegaze having a moment right now? It seems like every week, I get at least one or two albums full of afterburner guitars,...
The Howl & The Hum | Human Contact
How do you like your Brit-rock bands? Cranking out massive, mighty and majestic arena-sized anthems like U2? Wearing their hearts on their sensitive-boy sleeves a la Coldplay? Or getting...
Geezer | Groovy
If the blacklight-ready cover art wasn't enough of a hint, the New York veterans' latest dose of psychedelic stoner-rock monster boogie is — as always — the musical equivalent...
Gary Olson | Gary Olson
Those who fondly remember The Ladybug Transistor will want to tune into this solo debut from the band's longtime leader and some permanent member Gary Olson. Not surprisingly, these...
Deathlist | You Won’t Be Here for Long
Between the name Deathlist, the album title You Won't Be Here For Long, the cadaverous cover shot and the you've-been-warned press release below, I was bracing myself for something...
Archie Shepp / Raw Poetic / Damu The Fudgemunk | Ocean Bridges
There probably aren't a lot of rappers who want to make an album with their uncle. Then again, there probably aren't a lot of rappers who have a jazz...
Acârash | Descend to Purity
Anybody can thrash and bash and smash and scream maniacally. The Norwegian dark lords of Acârash know there's more to it than that. And they turn that knowledge into...
2nd Grade | Hit to Hit
If Alex Chilton and the Johns from They Might Be Giants fronted Guided By Voices, Hit to Hit might be the music they would have made: Short, sharp nuggets...
Hawklords | Hawklords Alive
Blast the retro-rockets and crank up the silver machine — after decades of on-and-off activity the Hawkwind offshoots led by sax player Nik Turner finally launch their first official...
Jade Hairpins | Harmony Avenue
Ever wonder what Fucked Up might sound like if they ditched frontman Damian Abraham and stopped making punk rock-opera concept album opuses? Nah, me neither. On the plus side,...
Diplo | Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil
Blame Lil Nas X. After he rode to the top of the charts and roped a financial whirlwind by fusing country, hip-hop and electronics into music that teenage club...
