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“Don’t you like rock music?” That was Jeff Tweedy’s answer to a quip about the band Jet during an interview with writer Chuck Klosterman, who was trying to goad Tweedy into bemoaning how lame the Aussie rockers were. Tweedy didn’t take the bait, not because he knows better than to talk shit about other musicians,  » Read More

Sia has released a new single, “Gimme Love.” It’s her first track in two years, and it serves as the first preview of a new album called Reasonable Woman, which will be released next spring. It’s being billed as her first proper pop album in 8 years, since 2016’s This Is Acting.  » Read More

Belle And Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch is releasing his debut novel next year. As The Bookseller reports, the Scottish musician’s book Nobody’s Empire will be published in September 2024 — it’s described as “part memoir and part fiction” and follows a character named Stephen who was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis,  » Read More

Pavement returned to Brooklyn Steel on Tuesday for the second of four straight nights. The band has played dozens of shows since getting back together last year, but they still managed to treat the Brooklyn revelers to some tunes they haven’t played during this reunion. The encore began with “Maybe Maybe” from the band’s 1989 debut EP Slay Tracks: 1933–1969,  » Read More

Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of the Monkees, is releasing an R.E.M. covers EP. Dolenz Sings R.E.M. will be out at the beginning of November, and he’s kicking off the rollout with a cover of “Shiny Happy People.”  » Read More

For years, Moby has said that he was a distant relation of Herman Melville, and that his nickname was given to him by his parents at a young age in reference to his purported great-great-great-uncle. But an investigative podcast called The Genealogy Detective claims to have found no connection between Moby (real name Richard Melville Hall) and Herman Melville,  » Read More

Richmond singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger always bring some stylish retro pizzazz to her music, and on new single “You At Home” she does so with an assist from Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth. The pair wrote and recorded the song together in LA, ending up with an acoustic-based tune that reminds me of ’60s European pop and bossa nova as well as more recent indie folk-rock fare.  » Read More

Counterparts frontman Brendan Murphy also fronts End — or, if you prefer, END — a heavy-music supergroup that also features current and former members of bands like Reign Supreme, Shai Hulud, and Misery Signals. Next month, End will release their sophomore album, which has the extremely dramatic title The Sin Of Human Frailty.  » Read More

Jamila Woods, the eclectic and intriguing Chicago singer, is one month away from the release of her new album Water Made Us. She’s sharing another advance track today to go along with “Tiny Garden” and “Boomerang.” This one is called “Good News,”  » Read More