PREMIERE: Paper Idol releases title track from eagerly-awaited debut album The Playground
We’ve been looking forward to this one for a hot minute. Reintroducing Matan KG – last year he released the Mania Days EP as Paper Idol, and threw out a couple of loosies at the start of 2022, but if you haven’t been keeping up, he’s spent the rest of the year in album mode. …
PREMIERE: JORDI UP LATE wants ‘TO BE YOUR FRIEND’, plans EP and debut album
Meet JORDI UP LATE. All caps. She’s been carving out a nice electronic/R&B niche for herself, and is gearing up for an extremely busy 2023 that makes this year look like a warm-up in comparison. Since making her debut in 2020, she’s released a steady stream of singles, but nothing longer form. That’s about to …
Jacob Weaver releases new album as Wesley today, shares essay
We had to do our bit to make sure this didn’t get lost in the New Music Friday shuffle – it’s the new album from Kentucky’s Jacob Weaver, AKA Wesley. Trailed by the title track, ‘Twins in the Wind’ and ‘Not Sure That Was Me’, Glows in the Dark is out today via Earth Libraries …
PREMIERE: Berlin-based Nigerian Isis Salam is ‘Westcoast Chillin’ on swaggering new track
Isis Salam is going places. She’s been plenty, too – born in Nigeria, she was raised in Toronto, had stints in school on both sides of the Atlantic (New York and London), and is now based in Berlin. She’s got previous in THUNDERHEIST, and has been quiet for a little bit since late 2019’s Last …
PREMIERE: Joshua Lewis stuns with the delicate beauty of ‘I Was There’, from imminent new album Friction
Don’t look so blue, Joshua Lewis – you’ve got a new album out tomorrow! The Idaho native has been building up to the release of his second record Friction for a little bit, but it’s almost here, and we’ve got one final single to share with you ahead of its arrival tomorrow. We premiered lead …
PREMIERE: Matthew & the Mainstream lament the one that got away on ‘Can’t Believe (You’re Living With Him)’
He probably had to sit on that car for a bit to get the right shot (see above), but the LA-based Matthew Lurie has been sitting on his second album as Matthew & the Mainstream for far longer. For context: the initial seeds that bloomed into the 10-track record were planted back in 2017 at …
PREMIERE: Laura Jinn faces her fears on seasonally-appropriate new song ‘Analog Stalker’
As unfortunate as it is to launch your musical career during an unfolding pandemic, Laura Jinn seems to be making it work. From New Orleans, she released her debut EP called Sick! in 2020, and she’s following that up soon. Well, sort of. Diary 1: Hello World isn’t an EP, at least not yet. It’s …
PREMIERE: Stream Bebawinigi’s intense, experimental second album ‘Stupor’ and read a track-by-track guide
Virginia Quaranti’s second album as Bebawinigi is a wild ride, firmly rooted in the worlds of the experimental and avant-garde, yet simultaneously welcoming and compelling. Melding classical composition with metallic intensity and even finding time for a detour into repurposed film soundtracks, it doesn’t defy description so much as offer enough twists and turns that …
PREMIERE: Ontario’s Graham Caldwell starts a new chapter as Tearing Up, shares EP highlight ‘Highway Bandits’
Billy is Dead. RIP. ‘Wait, who’s Billy?’ we hear you ask. Well, Billy Moon was the stage name and alter ego of sorts for Ontario-based Graham Caldwell. What happened? In Caldwell’s words: “I don’t have the energy to dress up as anyone besides myself anymore.” Hence the beginning of a new chapter as Tearing Up. …
PREMIERE: Milan McAlevey shares lyric video for ‘Whatever It Was’ off his imminent debut album
For someone also in a band called Coke Weed, this song doesn’t bring either to mind. It’s probably pretty fond of whiskey, though; not so much the ‘sad sack crying into their drink’ style of alt-country, more the ‘I’ve been through some shit, let me pour something up and reminisce’ kind of alt-country. The author …