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The High Llamas, Sean O’Hagan’s idiosyncratic and long-running indie-pop project, will return this spring with the new album Hey Panda. It’s the first new High Llamas LP since 2016, and we’ve already posted the title track, which is literally about a cute panda’s TikTok account. Today,  » Read More

Next month, underground rock mainstay J. Robbins is releasing his second solo album, Basilisk, which he announced in December with “Exquisite Corpse.” Today, he’s back with a new track called “Last War,” which he said was inspired by Before The Deluge: A Portrait Of Berlin In The 1920s by Otto Friedrich.  » Read More

A Certain Ratio have announced a new album, It All Comes Down To This, which was produced by Speedy Wunderground head Dan Carey. It’s the English post-punk veterans’ follow-up to last year’s 1982. “It’s the Ratio removing the safety net,” Jez Kerr shared in a press release.  » Read More

In just under a month, Laura Jane Grace is releasing a new solo album, Hole In My Head. We’ve heard a handful of songs from it already — “Dysphoria Hoodie,” the title track, and most recently “Cuffing Season”  » Read More

In November, Real Estate announced their new album Daniel with the release of “Water Underground” and a video starring The Adventures Of Pete & Pete’s Danny Tamberelli and Michael C. Maronna. Today, the band is sharing “Haunted World,” and announcing their “Daniel-Only” album release show in Brooklyn.  » Read More

The Indiana-born producer Jlin started out by making a mutated version of Chicago footwork, and her music has grown steadily more experimental since then. Jlin released her mini-album Perspective last year, and she’s done a lot of collaborations, remixes, and soundtrack work in recent years. Still, she hasn’t released a proper full-length since 2017’s overwhelming Black Origami.  » Read More

If you’re tapped in like that, you probably know what I’m about to say: Burial is putting out a new 12″ soon, and it’s his first solo release for XL Recordings. XL started teasing a team-up with the legendary producer earlier this month, and posters advertising the release have popped up in select cities.  » Read More

An underrated thing about hardcore: You can sometimes identify a venue just by YouTube thumbnail — not even the video itself, but just the still image of a screengrab. I can’t think of any other genre of music where that’s the case. Most genres happen in the same clubs or arenas or festivals.  » Read More

Later this year, the Jesus And Mary Chain, the often-imitated and never-duplicated duo of Scottish brothers Jim and William Reid, will return with their new LP Glasgow Eyes. It’ll be the first Mary Chain album in seven years and their second since reuniting in 2007. We already posted the absolutely sick lead single “  » Read More