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News: Sharon Van Etten is back with new band Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, a self titled debut album on the way and single ‘Afterlife’ as a tasty aperitif.
The magnificent Sharon Van Etten is back after an absence, but this time with a new band. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory have just announced their self-titled debut album, out on 7 February 2025 via Jagjaguwar, and released the lead single/video, ‘Afterlife’. Van Etten says of the new project, that sees her for …
Track: Unknown Mortal Orchestra reveal first new single in three years, Weekend Run
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have released their first new music in nearly three years, dating back to 2018’s Sex & Food album with a new single, Weekend Run, out now on the ever brilliant Jagjaguwar label. It’s not that UMO – aka Runah Nielsen hasn’t kept himself busy – quite the opposite, releasing the IC-01Hanoi project, collaborating …
Album Review: Dinosaur Jr – Sweep It Into Space; file under essential
The last year has been, let’s face it, odd to say the least. The global pandemic has brought a horde of fearful anxieties and a desperate need for something solid to cling on to, a life raft to pin our hopes to and sail away from all this uncertainty. Enter then Dinosaur Jr, the somewhat …
See: Dinosaur Jr. in snowbound video for ‘Garden’ from forthcoming LP ‘Sweep It Into Space’
It was in that cavernous bedroom of yours that you played me “Start Choppin’” and something fundamental changed. Sure, I’d heard guitars already. Rob had introduced me to Hendrix the summer before and I’d fallen in love with the groove of Crosstown Traffic, the insouciance of Stone Free and the volume of Voodoo Chile. But …
See: Gordi unveils enigmatic and atmospheric video ‘Refractive’ – an evocative amalgam of tracks ‘Extraordinary Life’ and ‘Volcanic’ and announces news of live EP
Gordi, the name of Melbourne musician Sophie Payten’s solo work, is a living icon in the Australian music scene: her last album ‘Our Two Skins’ released in the middle of the COVID lockdown last year was a graceful and epic release, thrown into release by Payton’s extraordinary work as a doctor, assisting with understaffed local …
NEWS: Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley announce avant-garde folk album; hear ‘This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14’
THEY may at first somewhat unlikely bedfellows: Matthew E. White, who arrived back in 2011 with his debut album The Big Inner, seemingly a fully formed gentleman of classic Southern Americana; and Lonnie Holley, the scrap sculptor who released his debut set of free-flowing outsider funk, Just Before Music, at the age of 62 in 2012. …
See: Midnight Sister release new video for ‘Satellite’
Los Angeles artists Juliana Giraffe and Ari Balouzian, aka Midnight Sister, have released a new single and video from their album ‘Painting the Roses’, which dropped on January 15th via Jagjaguwar. If you’re unfamiliar with the pair, Giraffe is a designer who makes the costumes for the bands videos, but also for other artists and …
Album Review : Tim Heidecker – What The Brokenhearted Do…
It took me a long time to find an “in” with Tim Heidecker. In-particular, the comedy he created with Eric Warheim. Watching Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job on Adult Swim was both absolute hilarity and mild-to-extreme unease. Their comedy was this weird mix of 80s cable access video effects and mild hallucinatory fever …
Album Review : Black Mountain’s ‘Destroyer’
I remember when I got my drivers license. I was a late bloomer and didn’t get mine till I was 17. After some shenanigans prior to being 16 and my uncle’s 1949 Chevy, I was banned from getting my license for a bit. But when I did finally get it, it was such a feeling …
See: Cut Worms shares video for Cash For Gold, taken from debut album Mellow Ground
Born with a knack for conjuring fine images and warm sounds with a curious underbelly, Midwestern-bred, New York-based Max Clarke will release Hollow Ground, his debut album as Cut Worms, on May 4th via Jagjaguwar. The week of the album’s release sees Cut Worms kicking off a month-long tour supporting King Tuff throughout North America. …