New Music Friday - October 14, 2022

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language Watch: "Part of the Band" Watch: "Happiness"
	Black Lips - Apocalypse Love Watch: "Lost Angel" Watch: "No Rave"
	Mykki Blanco - Stay Close to Music Watch: "French Lessons" (featuring Kelsey Lu) Watch: "Pink Diamond Bezel"
	Plains - I Walked with You a Ways Watch: "Problem with It" Watch: "Abilene"
	Tove Lo - Dirt Femme Watch: "True Romance" Watch: "2 Die 4"

Other Full-Length Releases

Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ Watch: "Coyotes" Listen: "Natural Information"

Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE Watch: "There Were Bells" Watch: "We Let It In"

Julianna Riolino - All Blue Watch: "Lone Ranger" Listen: "You"

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim Listen: "The Land Before Timeland" Listen: "Hypertension"

Meat Wave - Malign Hex Watch: "What Would You Like Me to Do" Watch: "Ridiculous Car"

Palm - Nicks and Grazes Watch: "Feathers" Watch: "Parable Lickers"

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Return of the Dream Canteen Watch: "Tippa My Tongue" Watch: "Eddie"

Sam Gendel - blueblue Listen: "Uroko (鱗, fish scales)" Listen: "Tate-waku (竪沸く, rising steam)"

Skullcrusher - Quiet the Room Watch: "Whatever Fits Together" Watch: "Quiet the Room"

Surprise Chef - Education & Recreation Listen: "Money Music" Listen: "Velodrome"

Wild Pink - ILYSM Watch: "ILYSM" Watch: "Hold My Hand" (featuring Julien Baker)

Winter - What Kind of Blue Are You? Watch: "atonement" (featuring Hatchie) Watch: "good" (featuring SASAMI)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Ecstatic International - Ecstatic International Listen: "High Violence"

Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen Watch: Norah Jones - "Steer Your Way" Watch: Iggy Pop - "You Want It Darker"

Poppy - Stagger Watch: "FYB" Watch: "Stagger"

Robert Glasper - Black Radio III: Supreme Edition Watch: "Voyage to Atlantis" (featuring Bilal & Alex Isley) Watch: "Therapy pt. 2" (featuring Mac Miller)

Stars at Noon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Watch: tindersticks - "Stars at Noon"

New Music Friday - May 5, 2017

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Essential Full-Length Releases

The Afghan Whigs - In Spades The Afghan Whigs returned from a 16-year break with 2014's Do to the Beast. The wait for the follow-up has been, thankfully, much shorter. Beast was a good album, but did not quite rise to the level of their previous work. They've spent the three years since their comeback reissuing their earlier work. Perhaps going back over their past work helped on this record, it's more of a return to form. Watch: "Oriole" Watch: "Demon in Profile"

Blondie - Pollinator Blondie had their own recent return in 2011 with Panic of Girls, their first album in eight years. Pollinator is their third record since that return. The album sees the band moving towards some interesting writing collaborations. Nic Valensi, Sia, Charli XCX, Dev Hynes, David Sitek, and Johnny Marr all contributed to tracks. Watch: "Long Time" Watch: "Fun"

Juana Molina - Halo Juana Molina is an experimental artist from Argentina. She started her career as a sketch comedy actress, and achieved fame in the pursuit, but shifted to a music career in the mid-90s. Twenty-plus years into her music career, she has come to be regarded as one of the best of Argentine avant-garde music. Halo is her seventh album. Watch: "Lentísimo halo" Listen: "Cosoco"

Logic - Everybody Logic is Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, a mixed-race rapper from Maryland. His music often touches on the dynamics of being biracial and his experiences moving between both worlds. His third studio album includes features from Juicy J, Chuck D, and Killer Mike, among many others. Watch: "Black SpiderMan" (featuring Damian Lemar Hudson) Listen: "Everybody"

Perfume Genius - No Shape Perfume Genius, aka Mike Hadreas, began his career making music that was often quiet and reserved. His third album, 2014's Too Bright, saw him become more defiant and bombastic. The follow-up is a bit less so, but still light years away from his early sound. In many ways, it sounds happier than his past work, perhaps inspired, at least in part, by his settling into a long-term relationship. None of this is to say that the output has suffered, this is another incredible album from the artist! Watch: "Slip Away" Watch: "Die 4 You"

Other Full-Length Releases

Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin a Rainbow Watch: "Beyond the Beach" Watch: "The Clock at the Back of the Cage"

Big Walnuts Yonder - Big Walnuts Yonder Listen: "Raise the Drawbridges?" Listen: "Sponge Bath"

Black Lips - Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art? Watch: "Can’t Hold On" Listen: "Occidental Front" (featuring Yoko Ono)

Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Best Troubador Watch: "Mama Tried" Watch: "Bad Actor" (featuring Elsa Oldham)

Cayetana - New Kind of Normal Watch: "Mesa" Watch: "Bus Ticket"

Day Wave - The Days We Had Watch: "Promises" Watch: "Something Here"

Hoops - Routines Watch: "On Top" Listen: "On Letting Go"

Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley Listen: "Where I’ll Find You" Listen: "Wild Indifference"

Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog Watch: "One More Love Song" Watch: "On the Level"

Nightlands - I Can Feel the Night Around Me Watch: "Lost Moon" Listen: "Depending on You"

NIIA - I Watch: "Hurt You First" Watch: "Sideline" (featuring Jazmine Sullivan)

Nite Jewel - Real High Watch: "The Answer" Watch: "2 Good 2 Be True"

Pond - The Weather Watch: "30000 Megatons" Watch: "Sweep Me Off My Feet"

Walter Martin - My Kinda Music Listen: "Hey Matt" (featuring Matt Berninger) Listen: "Trip on a Ship" (featuring Laura Gibson)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story — An Album to Benefit War Child Watch: Dolly Parton - "The Story" Listen: Pearl Jam - "Again Today"

DANGERDOOM - The Mouse & the Mask Reissue Listen: "The Mask" (featuring Ghostface Killah) Listen: "Mad Nice" (featuring Black Thought & Vinny Price)

Flasher - "Winnie"/"Burn Blue" Listen: "Winnie" Listen: "Burn Blue"

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014

Small Circle - melatonin EP Reissue Listen: "We Belong Here" Listen: "Please Don't Touch the Moon"

Southern Poverty Law Center Listen: Bonnie “Prince” Billy - "Treasure Map"

New Music Tuesday - 03/18/2014

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New Full-Length Releases

Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow Black Lips settled into a distinct sound early in their career and have not wavered much from it since. They are known for loose, frenetic punk/garage rock. While they maintain that "devil may care" sound, they always incorporate something a little bit different into each record. This latest release, the band's seventh, adds some country to the mix. Watch: "Boys in the Wood" Watch: "Justice After All"

Kevin Drew - Darlings Kevin Drew is primarily known as a founder and member of the Canadian indie rock collective Broken Social Scene. He, however, has also been performing as a solo musician, releasing his debut album, Spirit If..., in 2007. This is just his second solo record, but he does much to differentiate himself from the work he puts out with BSS, allowing the content and his image to be much more experimental. Watch: "Good Sex" Listen: "Mexican Afterparty Show"

Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love Perfect Pussy is the latest female-led punk band to make waves in the music industry. The band with the name you can't say at work has distinguished themselves with raucous and frenetic live shows since first gaining attention for their debut EP, I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling. Yes, they are the recipients of a tremendous amount of hype at the moment, but they don't seem poised to let it go to their heads. Watch: "I" Listen: "Driver"

Sisyphus - Sisyphus Sisyphus is the second release from the collaboration of Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux, and Serengeti (formerly known as S / S / S). They released their debut EP, Beak and Claw, in 2012. Since that first release, we've seen new releases from Son Lux and Serengeti, though not, unfortunately, from Sufjan. Sisyphus seems to allow its members to be a little sillier than they are in their main projects; it's great to see these great musicians let loose a little bit! Watch: "Calm It Down" Watch: "Alcohol"

Twilight - III: Beneath Trident's Tomb Thurston Moore has been very busy since the (likely) split of his most-known project, Sonic Youth, in 2011. In that time, he has put out a collaborative project with his ex-wife and Yoko Ono, released an album with his new band, Chelsea Light Moving, and a solo album is expected for later this year. He has also joined the black metal band Twilight for their third, and final, record. Yes...this band is also no more. Listen: "Swarming Funeral Mass" Listen: "A Flood of Eyes"

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream The War on Drugs released an incredible sophomore album, Slave Ambient, in 2011. The album was a critical success and triggered a nearly year-long tour for Adam Granduciel and his band. When finished, the tour (and a break-up of a major relationship) led to a period of depression for Adam. This drove the writing for the album, which still went through several rewrites. The result, however, is a release that manages to be even more critically-acclaimed than the band's breakout. Watch: "Red Eyes" Listen: "Under the Pressure"

YG - My Krazy Life YG (short for Young Gangsta) is a young rapper out of Compton, California. It's his first album, following a series of mixtapes, guest spots and singles, but he's making a strong name for himself right out of the gate. This record features guest spots from SchoolBoy Q, Drake and follow Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar. Watch: "Left Right" Watch: "Who Do You Love"

Other New Releases

Bob Dylan & Pete Seeger - The Singer & the Song Pete Seeger was a renowned folk and protest music singer who began his career in the late 1930s. During a revival in his career in the 1960s, he became a champion and backer for a young folk singer named Bob Dylan (you may have heard of him). Seeger passed away earlier this year, but the latest release bearing his name explores the influence of songwriting in folk music culture of the 20th century. Listen: Pete Seeger - "Turn! Turn! Turn!" Listen: Bob Dylan - "Baby Let Me Follow You Down"

Ex Hex - "Hot and Cold"/"Waterfall"/"Everywhere" Ex Hex is the new band of Mary Timony (formerly of Helium and, more recently, WILD FLAG). There's no word yet on a new album from her latest project, but we get a trio of singles to hold us over! Watch: "Hot and Cold"

Simian Mobile Disco & Roman Flügel - "Hachinoko"/"Ikizukuri" Simian Mobile Disco continues to put out new tracks related to their 2010 compilation Delicacies. The latest release has them working with German house producer Roman Flügel. The delicacies here are hachinoko (bee larvae) and ikizukuri (live seafood sashimi). Listen: "Hachinoko" Listen: "Ikizukuri"