Tom Breihan

Avey Tare has been busy this year. In February, Tare released his solo album 7s. Then, in September, Tare’s band Animal Collective came out with Isn’t It Now?, their big return-to-form LP. Today, Avey Tare’s got a new track in the world,  » Read More

Love Actually, the cornball ensemble comedy about a bunch of British people falling into and out of love with one another, is now 20 years old. It endures as meme fodder, if nothing else. As it turns out, the British pop balladeers Keane, who were unsigned at the time,  » Read More

Alabama rap charmer Flo Milli is now popular enough that my daughter is always playing her in the car, and she’s getting ready to follow her 2022 album You Still Here, Ho? with a new one called Fine Ho, Stay. (I sense a theme.) In the past few months,  » Read More

Last year, the Memphis rapper GloRilla erupted out of the underground, scoring a couple of massive hits and ending the year with the release of her Anyways, Life’s Great… EP. GloRilla’s been a little quieter this year, though she has come out with a few new singles.  » Read More

The screamo underground is a communal place. Bands don’t just make split 7″ EPs; they make full-on split albums. A couple of months ago, we got Snag and Coma Regalia’s MMXXIII. Now, New Jersey’s Massa Nera and Los Angeles’ Quiet Fear are getting ready to release Quatro Vientos // Cinco Soles,  » Read More

Olly Alexander’s dance-pop project Years & Years released the album Night Call last year, and now Alexander has followed it with “A Very Fun Bad Idea,” a new song for the soundtrack of the British movie Bonus Track. Bonus Track is a queer musical romance,  » Read More

The inventive and always-busy Montreal dance producer Kaytranada loves collaborating; he’s a wizard at bending his style to meet his peers in the middle. Earlier this year, Kaytranada and the Portland rapper Aminé, working together in the duo KAYTRAMINÉ, released a very good self-titled album. Today, Kaytranada has followed that record with a new double-single under his own name,  » Read More

A year and a half after his arrest, Young Thug’s RICO trial is finally underway. High-profile prosecutor Fani Willis claims that Thug’s YSL record label and crew are actually a violent gang, and Thug is facing racketeering charges. Earlier this month, Judge Ural Glanville ruled that the state could use Thug’s lyrics as evidence,  » Read More

Glitterer started out as a hyper-focused one-man machine — former Title Fight leader Ned Russin on his Guided By Voices shit, cranking out short and sharp power-pop nuggets. Since releasing last year’s Fantasy Four EP, Russin has expanded Glitterer into a full-time four-piece band. Early next year, they’ll release the new album Rationale,  » Read More