This summer brought the welcome news that Royal Trux’s Jennifer Herrema had reactivated her Black Bananas project for an album with new label home Fire Records. We soon learned that album is called Bad Bunch, and we heard its lead single “Turkey Burgers.” The track was a revelation, a zonked chillwave-funk jam that made me feel like I was surfing …

Last month Told Slant announced their new record What’s Up and released the lead single “Manhattan.” Today the NYC indie mainstay is back with some more quintessential NYC indie, this time in the form of a beautiful yet bleak song called “Draw Blood.” The post Told Slant – “Draw Blood” appeared first on Stereogum.

Step aside, Fergie — a new interesting rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” has entered into the canon. Unfortunately, Martha Reeves went viral for her unconventional performance of the national anthem at the inaugural Women’s Professional Baseball League game on Saturday (Aug. 1). The Motown legend was accompanied by backup singers at the Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois, and it …

John Douglas, longtime guitarist for Scottish indie rock band Trashcan Sinatras, has passed away. The band shared the news in a social media post today, writing that Douglas passed away peacefully on Monday “after a brief illness.” Douglas was 63. The post Trashcan Sinatras’ John Douglas Dead At 63 appeared first on Stereogum.

It’s been seven years since Imperial Teen’s last album, Now We Are Timeless, but a followup is finally coming. The band — led by Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum — is releasing All Over You this fall, and the lead single “Overdrive” is out now. The post Imperial Teen Announce New Album <em>All Over You</em>: Hear “Overdrive” appeared first on …

For the past few years, the New York-based singer-songwriter known as June McDoom has been making spacey, elegant indie-folk. McDoom grew up in a Jamaican family in South Florida, absorbing reggae and folk, before moving to New York to study jazz performance. She started putting out her own music in 2022, and she collected her early EPs on a self-titled …

Cardi B & Paloma Elsesser Are the Latina Stars on Old Navy’s Fall Denim Campaign The post Cardi B & Paloma Elsesser Star in Old Navy’s Fall Denim Campaign appeared first on Remezcla.

Brooklyn-based Jacqui Miranda makes ethereal alt-pop under the moniker O Slow. She’s been dropping singles for a few years now, and last year she released the EP Night Shine, Through Me. In September, we’ll have her first full-length album, Antenna — and actually we have 22% of it now. The post O Slow Announces Debut Album <em>Antenna</em>: Hear “No Body” …

It’s always cool when underground rock lifers join forces. Between the two of them, Buzz Osborne and Jeff Pinkus have been making bugged-out noise rock for roughly ten thousand years. Osborne has been leading the Melvins since 1983. Bassist Jeff Pinkus joined the Butthole Surfers in 1985. Now, the two of them have united to form a new band called …

American Pyramid, the latest from the stylistically slippery Wisconsin indie rock guy Graham Hunt, is less than a month away. He’s already shared the rambunctious “Waiting For You To Come Home” and the hip-hop-inflected post-Beck alt-rock pastiche “Riverboat Blues.” Now comes “Getting Older,” a propulsive heartland rock track that puts Hunt’s weary melodies front and center. I love the interplay …