VIA PRESS RELEASE | Today, iconic British duo Tears For Fears have released “Break The Man,” the third single off their highly anticipated first studio album in seventeen years, The Tipping Point, arriving February 25th, 2022 via Concord Records. Co-written by Curt Smith and Charlton Pettus, and co-produced by Curt, Roland, and Charlton, the band […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | GRAMMY Award-winning English rock band Muse returns with brand new song, “Won’t Stand Down,” out today via Warner Records. Produced by Muse and mixed by Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon), “Won’t Stand Down” is an arena-ready anthem of controlled chaos, with heavy guitars and industrial-like distortions amplifying Bellamy’s striking lyrics […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “These two songs were written, recorded and mixed during the sessions for As Days Get Dark but as much as we loved them, we couldn’t find a place for them on the final album,” explains Aidan Moffat. “Maybe it’s because they seem to have their own distinct identities, but sometimes a […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Fontaines D.C. have announced their third album, Skinty Fia, to be released on April 22nd on Partisan Records. News of the album comes with the release of its first single, “Jackie Down The Line”—replete with a video directed by Hugh Mulhern—as well as the band’s first North American tour dates since […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Destroyer is pleased to announce LABYRINTHITIS, out March 25, 2022, on Merge Records. Pre-order today on CD, LP, and jade and ivory Peak Vinyl in the Merge store and participating independent record shops. Alongside this announcement, Destroyer shares the first song and video from the album, “Tintoretto, It’s for You.” LABYRINTHITIS […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | The third single from Cate Le Bon’s new album Pompeii. Today, Cate Le Bon shares “Remembering Me,” the third and final single from her forthcoming album Pompeii, out February 4th. The song exists in Le Bon’s signature aesthetic paradox: songs built for now that miraculously germinate from her interests in antiquity, […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Johnny Marr has released “Night and Day,” the brand-new single taken from the “Fever Dreams Pt 3” EP – the third quarter of forthcoming double album Fever Dreams Pts 1-4, due February 25th via BMG. Featuring backing vocals and bass from Primal Scream’s Simone Marie, “Night and Day” encapsulates the confusion, […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Between the several battlegrounds of WWI, there was no scene as hostile as the feared alpine front that involved a series of battles at the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy. High above in the alps, men would fight in the most extreme conditions to protect the borders. Today, these fights are […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Celebrating the pioneer of funk James Brown, Urban Legends, a division of UMe, Universal Music Group’s global catalog company, has teamed up with multi-instrumentalist and member of The Roots, Stro Elliot, to create Black & Loud: James Brown Reimagined by Stro Elliot, out February 4, 2022. The album, consisting of ten […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Produced by Grammy nominated producer Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Royal Blood) and recorded at Echo Zoo Studios in March 2020, the band’s latest offering epitomises their obsessions with true crime podcasts, stalkers, serial killers, and murderers. “The intrigue and mystery of them, the fascination of the humans on the outskirts of society […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Guided By Voices have always played by their own rules and they’ve kept extraordinarily busy during the pandemic. Three albums in 2020 and two albums in 2021 garnered amazing press, and they’re now selling out shows everywhere. But the new album Crystal Nuns Cathedral tops them all! The mighty Guided by […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Ahead of the release of their highly anticipated fourteenth studio album Extreme Witchcraft, out January 28 via PIAS and the band’s own E Works Records, EELS are sharing the album’s opening track, “Amateur Hour.” EELS frontperson and songwriter E (a.k.a. Mark Oliver Everett) co-produced Extreme Witchcraft with PJ Harvey producer and […]
NEWPORT, RI | Situated at the intersection of the Atlantic Ocean and Narragansett Bay, Fort Adams once stood as the last line of defense for the US Army. Last weekend it stood to defend the unique and passionate spirit of the 65th annual Newport Folk Festival. Hosting musicians, artists, vendors, and attendees, this special event […]
Remembering Albert Ayler in advance of his birthdate tomorrow. —Ed. Although some have managed to expand upon his groundbreaking intensity and flights of abstraction, Albert Ayler is one of the few sui generis figures in the history of jazz. An uncompromising player with only a small following in his lifetime in music, he cut a […]
Rhino’s High Fidelity series has been a roaring success. Drawing from the vast catalogs of the esteemed Warner Brothers, Elektra, and Atlantic labels and their subsidiary imprint labels, the records released so far span a wide variety of time and genres. Here are four such recent releases. If there ever was a perfect album to […]
