Music

The new album “Asphalt Meadowsis” follow-up to Thank You For Today. Is arriving September 16, produced by indie all-star producer John Congleton. The lyrics were cobbled from a couple of different songs dealing with my general sense of anxiety; the feeling that the fabric that weaves a functioning society together was crumbling during the pandemic. Ben Gibbard Back in February, Ben Gibbard assembled a tribute album in honor of Yoko […]

The band return with “Arrangements”, their 4th studio album. The new album finds them restoring their roots with the singular, guitar driven, dissonant yet anthemic washes of intricate noise that has brought them international acclaim since their basement beginnings. The release date of the new album is September 9th. “Arrangements” was recorded in two parts: first in a series of studio sessions in Montreal during Fall 2019 where most of the […]

On September 9th release Built to Spill’s “When the Wind Forgets Your Name”, the group’s new album and first for the label (Sub Pop). The nine-track effort, which features the highlights “Understood”, “Fool’s Gold”, “Spiderweb”, “Rocksteady” and “Gonna Lose”, was produced by Doug Martsch, mixed by Martsch, Lê Almeida, João Casaes, and Josh Lewis, and mastered by Mell Dettmer. When the Wind Forgets Your Name is the first new Built to […]

King’s X, comprised of dUg Pinnick, Ty Tabor & Jerry Gaskill, are pleased to announce the release of their 13th studio album “Three Sides of One” today September 2. I feel like it's been forever since we put out a new album, and I'm ready for the world to hear our latest offering, hopefully there's a little bit of everything that you love about King’s X, three sides of one […]

“Flood”, the new album, is out 26 August and follows on from Stella Donnelly’s much-lauded debut album “Beware Of The Dogs”. She co-produced the record alongside Methyl Ethel's Jake Webb and Anna Laverty (whose award-winning CV features Camp Cope and Courtney Barnett). Like the many Banded Stilts that spread across the cover of her newest album “Flood”, Stella Donnelly is wading into uncharted territory. Here, she finds herself discovering who […]

UK group The Lounge Society have shared “Upheaval”, the latest single to be lifted from their album “Tired of Liberty”. The album lands on August 26th, and finds the band expanding on their excellent run of singles. Recorded over two weeks in November 2021, “Tired of Liberty” is a stunningly ubiquitous snapshot of instrumental meltdown, and timeless adolescence. Keen to uphold the manipulated elasticity of a recorded event, the majority […]

Britain’s band Sports Team release their second studio album “Gulp!”. The album is due out August 26, but was meant to be released July 22. Gulp! follows Sports Team’s 2020 Mercury Prize nominated debut album “Deep Down Happy”, which charted at #2 in the UK’s Official Charts, achieving the biggest vinyl sales for a debut British artist in 2020. Gulp! was announced back in March and so far, Sports Team […]

Due out on August 26, frontman Matt Bellamy explains that the record was "created in Los Angeles and London and is influenced by the increasing uncertainty and instability in the world". A pandemic, new wars in Europe, massive protests and riots, an attempted insurrection, Western democracy wavering, rising authoritarianism, wildfires and natural disasters and the destabilisation of the global order all informed Will Of The People. The goal of the […]

Ezra Furman has announced her new album “All of Us Flames” with a Noel Paul directed video for her new song “Forever in Sunset”. The LP is due out August 26. “Forever in Sunset” follows the previous singles “Book of Our Names” and “Point Me Toward the Real”. Produced by John Congleton, “All of Us Flames” unleashes Furman’s songwriting in an open, vivid sound whose boldness heightens the music’s urgency. Of the […]