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Whitmer Thomas has shared a video for his new single, “Most Likely.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming album, The Older I Get The Funnier I Was, which will be out on October 21 via Hardly Art.  » Read More

Los Angeles-based electro-pop duo Magdalena Bay (aka Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin) are releasing a deluxe edition of their debut album, Mercurial World, on September 23 via Luminelle. Now they have shared a brand new song from the deluxe edition, the string-swept “All You Do,” via a video for the new single.  » Read More

Wild Pink have shared a new single, “Hold My Hand,” a duet with Julien Baker. It is the latest release from the band’s forthcoming album, ILYSM, which will be out on October 14 via Royal Mountain.  » Read More

Deer Scout (aka Dena Miller) has shared a video for a cover of Kate Bush’s 1982 song “Suspended in Gaffa.”  » Read More

Later this fall, London-based indie electronica artist Michael Sebastian is set to share his new EP, Kadako. Following after his 2021 record Afiye, the EP sees Sebastian transforming his improvised live-looped compositions into expansive productions. Though initially intended to be a lockdown-era ambient album, the record came out propulsive, and dancefloor-ready, while still retaining a meditative melancholy enlaced between its jubilant dance tracks.  » Read More

Bill Callahan has announced the release of a new album, YTI⅃AƎЯ, which will be out on October 14 via Drag City.  » Read More

Andrew Bird has announced the Chicago return of his annual music festival, Gezelligheid. The performances will take place from December 12 to 16 at Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (Aug. 19) at 10 a.m. CST.  » Read More

An early actioner from Chuck Norris hits Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber.  » Read More

An introduction to the nine principal characters of House of the Dragon and how the show may, or may not, change series creator George R.R. Martin’s source material, taken from his in-universe history book, Fire & Blood, Volume I.  » Read More