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Cursive frontman Tim Kasher has shared a lyric video for his new single “What Are We Doing.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming album, Middling Age, which will be out this Friday (April 15) via 15 Passenger.

This week, Downtown Boys’ Joey La Neve DeFrancesco is releasing a new La Neve EP, History Solved. Its title track and “Soft Power” were already put out as singles, and today we’re getting one more before the whole thing is out on Friday. “Rough Music” is a clanging, propulsive dance track. Check it out below.

Next month, Canada’s Hannah Judge, aka fanclubwallet, will release her debut album, You Have Got To Be Kidding Me. We’ve heard singles “That I Won’t Do” and “Gr8 Timing!,” and now Judge has shared another cut from the album: “Trying To Be Nice.”

The Denver power trio Primitive Man has been making harsh, fuzz-drowned sludge for a decade, and they’ve just announce plans to follow their 2020 album Immersion with a new EP called Insurmountable. The new EP has four songs, and one of those songs is a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream deep cut “Quiet,” which should be cool. Along with the EP announcement, Primitive Man have shared the early […]

“Europeans decided what Blackness was.” That’s something that billy woods told The FADER in maybe the only interview that woods has done behind his new album Aethiopes. In the context of the interview, that’s less a thesis statement and more a tossed-off observation, but it’s still a useful way for looking into Aethiopes, one more stunning piece of rap music from a career full of them. Over the course of […]

Next week, we all get to see Björk’s face blown up bigger-than-life on a movie-theater screen, and it’s the first time we’ll get that opportunity in a long time. Two years ago, we learned that Robert Eggers, director of The Witch and The Lighthouse, had cast Björk as a “Slav witch” in his Viking-revenge epic The Northman. It’ll be Björk’s first proper feature-film acting role since her star turn in […]

Last year, composers Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Emile Mosseri started working together during the pandemic after finding out that they were neighbors. They released a short project called I Could Be Your Dog (Prequel), which they’re now ready to complete. Next month, they’ll put out I Could be Your Dog / I Could be Your Moon, which adds six new tracks to the original album, including “Green To You,” which […]

Last month, Belle And Sebastian announced A Bit Of Previous, their first album in seven years. So far we’ve heard a couple tracks from it, including “If They’re Shooting At You” and “Unnecessary Drama.” Today, they’re back with another one.