James Rettig

Last month, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith announced her latest album, Let’s Turn It Into Sound, with “Is It Me Or Is It You?. Her next single asks another question: “Have You Felt Lately?” It starts off clownish and bright, with taffy-life vocals, but takes a couple twists and turns from there.  » Read More

The Wisconsin Band To Watch alums Disq have announced their second album, Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet, the follow-up to their 2020 debut LP Collector. It’ll be out in October, and today they’re introducing it with the smeary, twisted, and insistent lead single “Cujo Kiddies,”  » Read More

Crawlersout, belispeak, lofticries, obedear, grandloves, amenamy.  » Read More

The London trio PVA made waves back in 2019 when they released their debut single, “Divine Intervention,” which was produced by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey and provided a similar bent as their contemporaries like Squid and Black Midi but to dancier ends. They followed that up in 2020 with the Toner EP,  » Read More

This week, Rico Nasty is releasing a new mixtape called Las Ruinas, the follow-up to her 2020 studio album debut Nightmare Vacation. We’ve heard a chunk of songs from it already — “Vaderz,” “Intrusive,” “Black Punk,”  » Read More

Dan Wilson has spent the past few years resuscitating his band Semisonic and releasing a long string of solo material, in addition to all the work he puts in co-writing for others behind-the-scenes. Today, he’s announcing a new EP called Dancing On The Moon and introducing it with a cover of Perfume Genius’  » Read More

Johnny Marr joined Primal Scream on Saturday night for the encore of their show at Alexandria Palace Park in London. After the group ran through a performance of every track on Screamadelica as part of the album’s 30th anniversary celebrations, Marr came up on stage and played guitar for three non-Screamadelica songs: “Jailbird,”  » Read More

Japanese Breakfast performed at Pitchfork Music Festival on Saturday evening and brought out Jeff Tweedy halfway through the set. They sang “Kokomo, IN” together, which Tweedy previously covered in an Instagram livestream. And then they sang Wilco’s own “Jesus Etc.,” which Michelle Zauner joined the band on earlier this year at their Solid Sound Festival.  » Read More

Kid Cudi has replaced Kanye West as the headliner for the first night of Rolling Loud Miami, which is set to take place next weekend. “We were looking forward to Ye headlining Rolling Loud Miami 2022,” Rolling Loud co-founders Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler wrote in a statement. “We spent months working with him and his team on the performance.  » Read More