James Rettig

Panda Bear and Sonic Boom have a long and storied history. Peter Kember mixed and mastered Noah Lennox’s 2011 album Tomboy and co-produced 2015’s Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, and six years ago Kember moved over to Portugal (where Lennox has been based for a while now) so that the pair could work together more.  » Read More

The beloved North Carolina rock band Archers Of Loaf have been back together for about a decade now, sporadically playing shows — some of which were canceled due to the pandemic — and in 2020, they released some of their first new songs in decades, which included tracks like “Raleigh Days”  » Read More

The Irish group Gilla Band, formerly known as Girl Band, have announced a new album, Most Normal, the follow-up to their 2019 album The Talkies. They’re introducing it with the propulsive “Eight Fivers,” which is built around the scowling refrain: “I spent all my money on shit clothes.”  » Read More

Next month, Danger Mouse and Black Thought are releasing their long-in-the-works collaborative album Cheat Codes. So far, we’ve heard “Because” (which boasted features from Joey Bada$$, Russ, and Dylan Cartlidge) and “No Gold Teeth” (which landed on our best songs of the week list),  » Read More

Sorry released one of the best debut albums of 2020 with 925 and they followed that up last year with the Twixtustwain EP. Today, they’re back to announce their second full-length album, Anywhere But Here — which I can only hope (but probably isn’t) named after the excellent Mona Simpson novel.  » Read More

No Devotion have been trying to mount a comeback for a bit now. The Geoff Rickly-led band that includes former members of Lostprophets first announced a reunion last year, which was then pushed back. Then they plotted out some opening dates for Cursive that were then canceled. But last month they scheduled some shows in the UK and the US for July;  » Read More

This week, UK weirdos Black Midi are releasing a new album, Hellfire, their follow-up to last year’s Cavalcade. They’ve shared a pair of singles from it so far, “Welcome To Hell” and “Eat Men Eat,” and today they’re back with one last one,  » Read More

Frank Ocean aired new episodes of his Blonded Radio Apple Music 1 radio show on Sunday, the same day that his album Channel Orange celebrated its 10th anniversary.  » Read More

Stage crashers were violently ejected from both Lil Baby and Roddy Ricch’s sets at the Switzerland hip-hop festival Openair Frauenfeld on Thursday. Video footage that has been making the rounds online shows a security guard pushing a member of the audience who got near Lil Baby back into the crowd, where he slammed into the front row barricade.  » Read More