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The members of London’s Hazmats come from the UK’s punk and hardcore world; they’ve played in bands like Violent Reaction, Big Cheese, Game, and Chubby And The Gang. But the Hazmats don’t sound anything like those bands. Instead, they make bright, jangly indie-pop that calls back to the halcyon days of college rock.  » Read More

Claud, the first artist signed to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, has released their sophomore album, Supermodels, which features lead single “Every Fucking Time.” Along with the album’s release, Claud has unveiled a video for the track “A Good Thing,” produced by Claud and Dan Wilson.  » Read More

Quavo, once the most visible member of the Migos, has been through dark times in the past year, but it seems like he’s back to releasing party-ready trap music. Last month, Quavo reunited with his once-estranged Migos teammate Offset for a BET Awards performance that paid tribute to Takeoff, Quavo’s nephew and fellow Migo,  » Read More

According to Delayed Gratification Records, Boston’s Fraud do “hardcore punk the way it’s supposed to be done.” In the case of new EP March Of Progress, that means six songs in nine minutes, all of them raw and raging mad, muscular and brimming with kinetic intensity but still thin and lo-fi enough to feel DIY.  » Read More

Dan Auerbach is a busy man. His band the Black Keys released their album Dropout Boogie last year, and his other band the Arcs released their album Electrophonic Chronic earlier this year. But Auerbach hasn’t released a proper solo single since 2017, when he released his Waiting On A Song album.  » Read More

Ada Lea, aka Montréal indie musician Alexandra Levy, impressed us greatly with her 2021 sophomore album one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden. Today she’s returned with her first new song since. The fact that it’s titled “hometown (edit)” makes me wonder if we might be getting an expanded version at some point,  » Read More

In November 2020, the Chicago rapper King Von was shot to death outside an Atlanta nightclub. He was 26, and his career was just taking off; his album Welcome To O’Block came out just one week before his death. Von had a fearsome reputation, and before his rap career took form,  » Read More

In a couple of months, Philadelphia-based sludge gods Baroness will release Stone, their first new album in four years. The band produced the LP themselves, and they recorded it while spending a month living together in a rented house in Barryville, New York. We’ve already posted first single “  » Read More

DJ Koze has a new 12″ on the way, billed as the result of an “inspiring stay in a secluded Benedictine monastery on the enchanting island of Sulawesi.” You’ll have to wait to hear B-side “Candidasa.” A-side “Wespennest,” out today, pairs the German minimal techno mainstay with Sophia Kennedy, the eclectic Baltimore-born German musician who records for City Slang.  » Read More