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Saturday, June 29, 2024

New Music Friday - June 21, 2024

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Alcest - Les Chants De L’Aurore Watch: "Flamme Jumelle" Watch: "L’Envol"
	Kehlani - CRASH Watch: "Next 2U" Watch: "Crash"
	Peso Pluma - Éxodo Watch: "14 14" Watch: "ME ACTIVO" (with Jasiel Nuñez)
	Rui Gabriel - Compassion Watch: "Summertime Tiger" (featuring Stef Chura) Watch: "Change Your Mind"
	Your Old Droog - Movie Watch: "Mercury Thermometers" Watch: "I Think I Love Her"

Other Full-Length Releases

Islands - What Occurs

Watch: "Drown a Fish"
Watch: "The End"

Kate Nash - 9 Sad Symphonies

Watch: "Millions of Heartbeats"
Watch: "Space Odyssey 2001"

Other Half - Dark Ageism

Watch: "Farm Games"
Listen: "Pastoral Existence"

Moon Diagrams - Cemetery Classics

Watch: "Very Much My Promise to You"
Watch: "Fifteen Shows at Once"

POND - Stung!

Watch: "(I’m) Stung"
Watch: "Black Lung"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Burial & Kode9 - "Phoneglow"/"Eyes Go Blank"

Listen: "Phoneglow"
Listen: "Eyes Go Blank"

Chris Keating - PolyDukes

Listen: "Straight Up"
Listen: "Devoted"

John Glacier - Duppy Gun

Watch: "Cows Come Home"
Listen: "Steady as I Am"

Joni Mitchell - The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)

Watch: "Coyote"
Watch: "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines"

Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra

Listen: Laraaji & Kronos Quartet - "Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie"
Listen: RP Boo & Armand Hammer - "Blood Running High"

Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty

Watch: Dolly Parton - "Southern Accents"
Watch: Rhiannon Giddens - "Don’t Come Around Here No More" (featuring Silkroad Ensemble and Benmont Tench)

RINSE - STARFISH*

Watch: "Breathe"
Watch: "Kiss Me (Kill Me)" (featuring Hatchie)

Spiritualized - Songs in A&E Reissue

Watch: "Soul on Fire"
Watch: "You Lie You Cheat"

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Deluxe Edition)

Watch: "To Be Alone with You"
Watch: "The Dress Looks Nice on You"

Tinashe - Match My Freak

Listen: "Nasty" (Match My Heat Remix)
Listen: "Nasty" (Match My Tweak Remix)

Saturday, May 16, 2020

New Music Friday - May 8, 2020

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Buscabulla - Regresa

This duo of indie pop troublemakers (Buscabulla is Spanish slang for the term) hail from Puerto Rico. They were based in New York, but returned to Puerto Rico following the hurricanes of 2017. Regresa is their debut album.

Watch: "NTE"
Watch: "Nydia"

Eve Owen - Don’t Let the Ink Dry

Don't Let the Ink Dry may be Eve Owen's debut album, but she's already had an impressive run in her career. She worked with The National, providing vocals on "Where Is Her Head." Aaron Dessner, a guitarist for the band, produced this debut in turn.

Watch: "So Still for You"
Watch: "Blue Moon"

Hayley Williams - PETALS FOR ARMOR

I wouldn't consider myself much of a fan of Paramore, so when frontwoman Hayley Williams initially announced her solo debut, I didn't really pay attention. Then, I heard some tracks from the album. They are quite a departure from her work in her band, and incredible. I think I may be a convert!

Watch: "Leave It Alone"
Watch: "Cinnamon"

Kehlani - It Was Good Until It Wasn’t

This is the second album from the California singer, following her 2017 debut, SweetSexySavage, though it also follows a mixtape released last year. The new record features Lucky Daye, Jhené Aiko, and hip hop's favorite indie artist, James Blake.

Watch: "Everybody Business"
Watch: "Toxic"

Melenas - Dias Raros

Melenas' sophomore album is a bit of a sonic departure from their 2017 eponymous debut, and also sees them moving to a new label. They started their careers with a punkier sound. They incorporate more of a pop aesthetic for their first album with Trouble in Mind Records.

Watch: "3 segundos"
Listen: "Despertar"

Other Full-Length Releases

Blake Mills - Mutable Set

Watch: "Vanishing Twin"
Watch: "Summer All Over"

I Break Horses - Warnings

Watch: "Death Engine"
Watch: "I’ll Be the Death of You"

Lamb of God - Lamb of God

Watch: "Checkmate"
Watch: "Memento Mori"

Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs of Sorrow

Listen: "Bleed All Over"
Listen: "Skeleton Key"

NAV - Good Intentions

Watch: "No Debate" (featuring Young Thug)
Watch: "Good Intentions (Intro)"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Eddy (From the Netflix Original Series)

Watch: St. Vincent - "The Eddy"
Watch: Jorja Smith - "Kiss Me in the Morning"

Everything but the Girl - Temperamental Reissue

Watch: "Temperamental"
Listen: "No Difference"

Ric Wilson & Terrace Martin - They Call Me Disco

Watch: "Move Like This"
Listen: "Chicago Bae" (featuring BJ the Chicago Kid)

Zola Jesus - Live at Roadburn 2018

Listen: "Soak"
Listen: "Veka"

Saturday, February 11, 2017

New Music Friday - January 27, 2017

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town

Allison Crutchfield is the twin sister of Katie Crutchfield, who performs as Waxahatchee, and a former member of Swearin'. The band broke up in 2015 following Crutchfield's breakup with the band's guitarist, and she started her solo career. Tourist in This Town is her first record. On the album, she reflects on the end of the relationship and the band. Lyrically and creatively, she comes into her own, distinguishing herself from both her former band and her sister.

Watch: "I Don’t Ever Want to Leave California"
Watch: "Dean’s Room"

Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life

Japandroids are strangely quiet between records. They'll put out a short, hard-rocking, much-celebrated record, tour a little bit, then go quiet. The silence between records creates a fear, in me at least, that perhaps the band is no more. Those fears started to crack back in August when the band announced a few shows in the later part of the year. As expected, an album announcement soon followed. It's as good as their first two, let's just hope we don't wait another five years for the next.

Listen: "Arc of Bar"
Listen: "Near to the Wild Heart of Life"

Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness

Not Even Happiness is the second album from Julie Byrne, who released Rooms with Walls and Windows in 2014. Her style is a throwback to 1970s folk and has earned her comparisons to older artists like Joni Mitchell, as well as some contemporaries, including Weyes Blood. Her music is calm and serene, perfect for cold winter nights indoors (though we don't seem to be getting many of those lately).

Listen: "Follow My Voice"
Listen: "I Live Now As a Singer"

Kehlani - SweetSexySavage

The beginning of last year was a tough time for Kehlani; following a break up with Kyrie Irving, and a less than positive public reaction to the circumstances of that relationship's end, she found herself hospitalized after an attempt at self-harm. The back half of the year was a sharp contrast to that. She went on a creative streak, releasing five singles, almost all with videos, including one for the Suicide Squad soundtrack. Several of those tracks also appear on her debut album.

Watch: "CRZY"
Watch: "Distraction"

Matt Martians - The Drum Chord Theory

Matt Martians is part of the Odd Future sub-group The Internet. He seems to be trying pre-empt bandmate Syd's debut album (released February 3) with a debut release of his own. The album dabbles in neo soul, jazz, experimental, and psychedelic sounds. It also, as is common with Odd Future albums, features contributions from other members of the group, including Steve Lacy and Syd.

Watch: "Dent Jusay" (featuring Syd & Steve Lacy)
Listen: "Diamond in Da Ruff"

Other Full-Length Releases