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News: Julien Baker Live Stream Performing New Album Little Oblivions
Julien will be performing a full-length, full-band set featuring songs from her new album Little Oblivions which came out in February to widespread acclaim and her highest chart positions to date (#21 Australia, #37 Germany, #39 USA, #51 UK). It’s quickly amassed over 12 million streams on Spotify with Julien having over 1.5 million monthly listeners on …
ALBUM REVIEW: Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
Memphis-born Julien Baker returns with her haunting, ballad-filled 3rd studio album, that you would have to be oblivious to not be enamoured with. In her first solo album since Turn out the lights in 2017, Julien Baker is showing that she is back and better than ever before with a slowcore, self-produced album that is …
See: Julien Baker shares video for new single Hardline taken from new album
Julien Baker has shared a new taste of her forthcoming album Little Oblivions by way of a new single ‘Hardline’. Little Oblivions will be released on February 26 via Matador Records. Regarding the video Julien says, “A few years ago I started collecting travel ephemera again with a loose idea of making a piece of art with it. …
News: Belle and Sebastian release live album ‘What To Look For In Summer’
On December 11th, Matador Records will release Belle and Sebastian’s What to Look for in Summer, a live double album gathering choice selections from the band’s 2019 world tour, including last summer’s epic “Boaty Weekender” cruise. Check out the video for ‘My Wandering Days Are Over’, below: “We’d been badgered by our fan base to put out …
LISTEN: raging brilliance from Algiers
MATADOR’S eclectic, forward-thinking Atlanta outfit Algiers have released a two-track new single via Bandcamp, “Can The Sub Bass Speak”/ “It All Comes Round Again”. A powerful brace of songs, “Can The Sub Bass Speak” is a raging, righteous declamatory text in the great tradition of The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, over a free …
Album Review: Muzz – Muzz
The ‘supergroup’ moniker conjures a vast spectrum stretching from the cringey banality of 2010’s ‘McBusted’ revival, or the spectacular 60’s rock wet dream of ‘The Dirty Mac’. Contrary to the “pish” usually issued at the word, the debut album of Interpol’s Paul Banks alongside Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman and The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick, shuns …
See: New videos for ‘If You Run’ and ‘Move Together’ from Joshua Homme’s Desert Sessions Volumes 11 and 12 In Collaboration With New York Film Academy
Joshua Homme’s Desert Sessions collective is proud to unveil the first fruits of its expansion into visual collaboration: Homme’s recent meetings with students at the New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus have resulted in unique works by two filmmakers, each of whom was given a production budget to translate the music and lyrics of …
Track / News: Lucy Dacus Covers Tom Courtenay as Matador announces Yo La Tengo Electro-O-Pura reissue
Matador Records have announced the latest addition of their ‘Revisionist History’ series is the 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo’s 1995 album ‘Electro-o-pure’. Vinyl fans will be salivating at the album is now in a gatefold sleeve and has been cut from the 58 minute master. It’s pressed for the first time on two …
ALBUM REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open
Car Seat Headrest – helmed by ridiculously talented and prolific songwriter Will Toledo – release much anticipated album “Making a Door Less Open” today, on Matador Records. It’s their first set of brand new songs since 2016’s awesome “Teens Of Denial” and for long-time Car Seat Headrest fans it will be both a challenging and …
See: Muzz release video for new single Red Western Sky
we’ve already written about Muzz, the new project of Paul Banks of Interpol, Bonny Light Horsemens Josh Kaufman and Matt Barrick – drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes’ touring band. Taken from their forthcoming self-titled debut album, Out on June 5th via Matador, the band have released a new video for the …