James Rettig

Next month, Ireland’s very own Gilla Band are releasing a new album, Most Normal. We’ve heard “Eight Fivers” and “Backwash,” and today they’re sharing another single, “Post Ryan,” which, funnily enough, is named after departed staffer and friend of the band Ryan Leas (miss you,  » Read More

They Are Gutting A Body Of Water and A Country Western are both bands based out of Philadelphia. The former make soupy, genre-defiant scrawls — not unlike what their fellow Philly compatriots the Spirit Of The Beehive get up to — while the latter leans more on the syrupy slowcore side of things.  » Read More

Nicki Minaj, who has been particularly online as of late, has filed a lawsuit against a vlogger who called her a cokehead. As TMZ reports, the rapper has filed a defamation suit against Marley Green, who goes by Nosey Heaux on the internet, for a video that she posted on Monday in which she claimed Minaj was “shoving all this cocaine,  » Read More

Last month, Los Angeles oddball Louis Cole announced a new album, Quality Over Opinion, with “I’m Tight,” which landed on our best songs of the week list. He’s also shared “Let It Happen” from the album, and today he’s back with another single,  » Read More

The New York City hardcore band Show Me The Body have announced a new album, Trouble The Water, their full-length followup to 2019’s Dog Whistle. It was recorded at their CORPUS studios in Long Island City, and was produced by Arthur Rizk. It includes “Loose Talk,”  » Read More

During the pandemic, Ben Gibbard held regular Live From Home livestreamed performances, something we talked with him about in our recent We’ve Got A File On You interview with the Death Cab For Cutie leader.  » Read More

Fran, the recording project led by Chicago musician Maria Jacobson, released its debut album A Private Picture back in 2019. Today, Jacobson is back with her first new single since then, the gorgeous and arresting “So Long.” “And I can’t hold on/ With a rope so long/ I wonder where you’ve gone,”  » Read More

At the end of this week, the Swiss experimental rock greats Disco Doom are releasing their first new album in eight years, Mt. Surreal. They’ve shared two songs, “Rogue Wave” and the title track from it so far, and today they’re back with another one,  » Read More

Next month, the London dance trio PVA are releasing their debut album, BLUSH. We spotlighted “Hero Man” from it a couple months ago, and since then they’ve also shared the single “Bad Dad.” Today, they’re back with another one, the squiggling and shadowy “Bunker.”  » Read More