James Rettig

Back in 2017, Foxing leader Conor Murphy released his debut album under the name Smidley, which offered up a brighter, poppier take on his main band’s often maudlin music. Since then, Foxing has moved further toward pop-rock with last year’s Draw Down The Moon. Now Murphy is back with a new Smidley album,  » Read More

The Pavement reunion tour rolls on. After four nights in New York City last week — a stopover that included a whole museum pop-up — the band picked things back up again in Philadelphia on Wednesday night with a performance at the Met. Philly denizen Kurt Vile came out during their set to sing along with them on Slanted And Enchanted track “Zurich Is Stained.”  » Read More

While in Austin for SXSW this past spring, Pom Pom Squad’s Mia Berrin linked up with Song Confessional, a project that collects anonymous confessions from people and partners with musicians to turn those details of someone else’s life into songs. Those songs are recorded in a mobile recording studio by producers Walker Lukens and Jim Eno,  » Read More

Bicep have released “Water,” their first brand-new song since they put out their debut album Isles back in 2020. Since then, they’ve offered up some additional deluxe edition tracks and various reworks, and “Water” isn’t entirely new, either, at least not to anyone who has seen the UK production duo’s live show.  » Read More

Guided By Voices have another new album on the way, surprise surprise, and they’re announcing it before their next release is even out. Scalping The Guru, an archival compilation bringing together some older rarities into a cohesive whole, is being released on October 28. The next proper GBV album is called La La Land,  » Read More

Comedian Whitmer Thomas is just a couple weeks out from the release of a new album, The Older I Get The Funnier I Was, which was produced by Jay Som. He’s shared “Rigamarole,” “Most Likely,” and “Everything That Feels Good Is Bad”  » Read More

A couple weeks back, New York City fixture Wiki announced Cold Cuts, a new collaborative mixtape with the New Jersey producer Subjxct 5. It comes out on October 21, and we’ve only heard “My Life” from it so far. But today, the pair is back with another track,  » Read More

The conceptually dense metal project Liturgy, which is spearheaded by Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, has announced a new album called 93696, which will be out in March. Today, they’re sharing that album’s title track, a 15-minute sprawl of harsh and roiling noise. They’re also putting out an EP today called As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time,  » Read More

Rage Against The Machine have canceled their 2023 North American tour dates due to the leg injury that Zack de la Rocha suffered during the second night of their reunion tour. They had wrapped up the first run of the NA tour in August, with de la Rocha mostly sitting down for the performances,  » Read More