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Saturday, March 11, 2023

New Music Friday - March 10, 2023

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Fever Ray - Radical Romantics Watch: "What They Call Us" Watch: "Carbon Dioxide"
	Frankie Rose - Love as Projection Watch: "Sixteen Ways" Listen: "Anything"
	King Khan - The Nature of Things Watch: "Snarlin’ Little Malcolm" Listen: "The Nature of Things"
	Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My Watch: "Oh Me, Oh My" (featuring Michael Stipe) Watch: "Kindness Will Follow Your Tears" (featuring Bon Iver)
	Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation Watch: "Flowers" Watch: "River"

Other Full-Length Releases

Dutch Uncles - True Entertainment

Watch: "True Entertainment"
Watch: "Poppin’"

H. Hawkline - Milk for Flowers

Watch: "Plastic Man"
Watch: "Empty Room"

Nicholas Krgovich - Ducks

Listen: "Ducks"
Listen: "Front Stoop #2"

Shana Cleveland - Manzanita

Watch: "Faces in the Firelight"
Watch: "A Ghost"

Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM

Watch: "UK GRIM"
Watch: "Force 10 from Navarone" (featuring Florence Shaw)

Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation 2

Watch: "After These Messages" (featuring Amani)
Watch: "Best Year Ever"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants - Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995

Listen: Anohni - "People Are Small"
Listen: Meng & Ecker - "Golden Showers"

Bleary Eyed - Bleary Eyed

Watch: "Run"
Watch: "Wreck"

Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic)

Listen: "Asphalt Meadows" (Acoustic)
Listen: "Here to Forever" (Acoustic)

Manchester Orchestra - The Valley of Vision

Watch: "The Way"
Watch: "Capital Karma"

Nia Archives - Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall

Watch: "Conveniency"
Watch: "So Tell Me…"

Tim Burgess - Atypical Music

Listen: "Flamingo" (Andy Votel Remix)
Listen: "Sure Enough" (Eyedress Remix)

Sunday, December 20, 2015

New Music Friday - November 6, 2015

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Jamie Woon - Making Time

Woon released a pretty awesome album, Mirrorwriting, back in 2011, then when almost completely silent. He started popping up again earlier this year, contributing vocals to Portico's Living Fields. At one point, he was considered to be a purveyor of post-dubstep music, but shifted more towards traditional R&B with this long-awaited follow-up.

Listen: "Celebration"
Listen: "Skin"

Grimes - Art Angels

"Surprise"-releases are very popular lately, which is becoming a bit frustrating. After teasing this latest release with a series of one-off singles since her 2012 album, Visions, Grimes announced that the album would be surprise released on iTunes with just one day's notice back in September. She became more forgiving with a timeline later on, giving the official release date at the end of October. I'm always happy to have a more solid date to look forward to, but even happier that it's a great album!

Watch: "Flesh without Blood”/“Life in the Vivid Dream"
Watch: "REALiTi"

Kate Boy - One

It's been a long wait for a debut album from this synthpop band. They received praise for a number of singles released over the past three years. The band waited longer to release an album than many other purveyors of their style. Some of whom, like Chvrches, Poliça, and Purity Ring, have released multiple records in that time. The band were perfectionists about this first album, putting in three years' worth of time to put out their best work.

Watch: "Midnight Sun"
Watch: "Higher"

Other Full-Length Releases

Haybaby - Sleepy Kids

Watch: "Doored"
Listen: "Elevator Song"

Made of Oak - Penumbra

Watch: "Side Rides"
Watch: "Pinebender"

Noun - Throw Your Body on the Gears and Stop the Machine with Your Blood

Watch: "Loveblood"
Listen: "Pain"

Palm - Trading Basics

Watch: "Ankles"
Listen: "Crank"

Rustie - EVEN IF YOU DONT BELIEVE

Watch: "First Mythz"
Listen: "Peace Upzzz"

Soldiers of Fortune - Early Risers

Listen: "Nails"
Listen: "Campus Swagger" (featuring Stephen Malkmus)

Talib Kweli & 9th Wonder - Indie 500

Watch: "Every Ghetto" (featuring Rapsody)
Listen: "Understand" (featuring Brother Ali & Planet Asia)

The Unspeakable Practices - The Unspeakable Practices

Listen: "Early Warning System"
Listen: "A Steadying Effect"

W-X - W-X

Listen: "Clean It Glen"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Busdriver - Thumbs

Watch: "Much"
Listen: "Surrounded By Millionaires" (featuring Daveed Diggs)

Björk - Vulnicura Strings (Vulnicura: The Acoustic Version)

Listen: "Lionsong"

Blanck Mass - The Great Confuso EP

Listen: "The Great Confuso Pt. 1"
Listen: "No Lite"

Bob Dylan - The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12

Watch: "Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues"
Listen: "Just Like a Woman"

GØGGS - "She Got Harder"

Listen: "She Got Harder"

Kurt Vile - Spotify Sessions EP

Puff Daddy - MMM

Watch: "Workin’"
Listen: "MMM" (featuring Future & King Loss)

Ride - Nowhere Reissue

Listen: "Nowhere"
Listen: "Vapour Trail"

Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour: The Drowning Shadows Edition

Listen: "Drowning Shadows"

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Saturday, September 26, 2015

New Music Friday - August 14, 2015

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

The Good Life - Everybody’s Coming Down

Tim Kasher is known for his work in Cursive, an emo band who released their first album in 1997. Slightly more recently, he has been involved in The Good Life, whose first album was released just three years later. That project has been hiatus for eight years, but is back this year with a new album. It's the first from the band that was recorded as a more collective effort, lending it a broader range of styles and ideas than previous efforts.

Watch: "The Troubadour’s Green Room"
Listen: "Everybody"

Talib Kweli - Fuck the Money

Talib Kweli is all about the surprise releases in the back half of this year. A few weeks ago, he released a first volume of b-sides and rare tracks with very little warning. This release comes with the same amount of forewarning, none. The album, with featured appearances from Miguel, Patrick Stump (of Fallout Boy), and Ab-Soul, seeks to warn of the evils of money. It is, as would only be appropriate, available as a free download here.

Watch: "Fuck the Money" (featuring Casper Nyowest)
Listen: "Nice Things"

Other Full-Length Releases