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In a couple weeks, Shamir is releasing a new album, Homo Anxietatem. We’ve heard a couple of tracks from it already — “Oversized Sweater,” “Crime,” “Our Song” — and today we’re getting another one, “The Beginning.”  » Read More

In a couple months, Alan Palomo is releasing his first album under his own name, away from the Neon Indian moniker he adopted when he started putting out music in the late ’00s. A few days ago, Palomo celebrated his 35th birthday, and last night posted a message about why he decided to not go by Neon Indian anymore.  » Read More

In a little more than a month, new wave hero Chrissy Hynde and her long-running band the Pretenders will release Relentless, their 12th studio album. We’ve already posted the early singles “Let The Sun Come In” and “I Think About You Daily,”  » Read More

Sheryl Crow has often been cited in Soccer Mommy reviews, and Sophie Allison once covered “If It Makes You Happy” onstage with Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, part of a wave of performances of that same song. Today she adds another Crow tune to the repertoire. This time it’s the cheery 2002 hit “Soak Up The Sun.”  » Read More

The German dance mastermind DJ Koze has been making bright, thoughtful minimal techno for decades. Koze produced every track on Róisín Murphy’s forthcoming album Hit Parade, and he’s also got some new music of his own. Earlier this month, Koze announced a new two-track EP called Wespennest,  » Read More

I’ve never been a runner or had any inkling to consider the prospects of becoming one. But, one can certainly envision the clear head space that pounding the pavement on a deliberate path forward must create. And it was in that mode that band manager/label owner Dave Cronen first caught wind of a series of BBC recording sessions that the legendary songwriter Daniel Johnston produced.  » Read More

Tomorrow, singer/songwriter Sami Stevens is set to debut her new album, Morning, released via New York label, Sunnyside Records. Recorded over years in both Brooklyn and San Francisco, the album finds Stevens occupying a meeting point between folk, jazz, and traditional singer/songwriter fare, offering gentle and patient melodies tinged by lush arrangements.  » Read More

Norwegian musician and singer/songwriter Pontette debuted in 2021 with her full-length album, Nude, evoking the layered and emotive alt pop of artists like Lorde, Robyn, or Florence and the Machine. She returned this year with another new EP, I Think The World Was Better Without Me In It, and today she’s back with an accompanying video for the EP’s title track,  » Read More

Reverberations (Travelling in Time) is no Primal Scream retrospective; listening to this album is more like unlocking a time capsule to reveal a perfectly preserved band in its infancy.  » Read More