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“And if you think I’m cryin’ for you/ I ain’t cryin’ for you/ I just watched Karate Kid II.” That might be the lyric of the year, and it comes from Fat Dog’s phenomenal new single.  » Read More

Tyler Jordan learned a lot of hard lessons from 15 mostly futile years trying to make a go of this indie rock thing, but few were more valuable than “say what you actually mean.” “If I’m writing a song to someone or about someone, I’d like them to know that,” he explains.  » Read More

urika’s bedroom is a Los Angeles-based indie rock project who emerged last summer with their debut single “Junkie.” Ahead of their upcoming tour dates supporting Nourished By Time this month, the enigmatic musician is back with the self-produced song “XTC,” their first release on True Panther Records.  » Read More

Vince Staples just dropped his latest album Dark Times, which included “Étouffée,” which just so happened to be the best song we heard last week. Today, the rapper announced that he’s taking the album on the road with a North American tour this fall.  » Read More

Earlier this spring, as you may have heard, Taylor Swift released her latest album The Tortured Poets Department. It’s long. In its final form, Tortured Poets stretches 31 tracks over two hours. At least commercially, that album has been the absolute colossus that everyone predicted,  » Read More

It’s been just over 36 years since the foundational Boston alt-rock band Pixies released their debut album Surfer Rosa. That album’s been on a lot of people’s minds lately because of the untimely passing of Steve Albini, who engineered the record and who didn’t think much of it.  » Read More

Timothy Showalter is returning this Friday with a new Strand Of Oaks album called Miracle Focus. After sharing the singles “More You,” “Party At Monster Lake,” and “Future Temple,” Showalter is giving one more preview with the psychedelic synth-pop number “Ananda.”  » Read More

Right now, we’re seeing an epidemic of dumb motherfuckers throwing things at musicians while they’re trying to perform. It’s hard to lock in on what’s causing this — post-pandemic isolation and group-behavior ineptitude, social media-driven main character syndrome, general assholism on the rise — but it’s a problem. And it appears that nobody —  » Read More

Last year, the acerbic and angular Chicago power trio Stuck released their album Freak Frequency. Earlier this year, they followed the full-length with two new songs, “Deep Tunnel” and “AITA?” Now, they’re honoring the first anniversary of Freak Frequency by dropping two previously unreleased tracks from that LP’s sessions.  » Read More