Last year, our Band To Watch Liquid Mike earned the honor of Album Of The Week with Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot. Today, the power-pop crew is announcing its follow-up, Hell Is An Airport, and sharing two tracks.

NxWorries, the duo of adventurous rap producer Knxwledge and actual Pop star Anderson .Paak, have been making music since 2015, long before Anderson .Paak became an actual pop star. In all that time, they’ve never been toured North America together, and that’s about to change. Last year, the duo returned with their long-awaited sophomore LP Why Lawd?, which won the …

Jane Paknia, the New York City-based composer who cites both jazz masters and contemporary art-pop artists as some of her biggest inspirations, has a new album called Millions Of Years Of Longing coming next month. We really liked the lead single “Waiting pt 1,” and today Paknia is back with another good one called “The Dream Is This.”

It’s been six years since La Dispute latest album, Panorama. The post-hardcore crew has been teasing a new album in letters to fans, and today they’re officially announcing the self-produced No One Was Driving The Car and releasing the first three tracks.

“I Love You Always Forever” is a quiet little miracle of a song. The Welsh singer Donna Lewis wrote and co-produced the shy, bubbling pop gem, and she released it as her debut single in 1996. “I Love You Always Forever” stealthily rose up to become a global smash, getting stuck at #2 behind “Macarena” in America. Donna Lewis never …

The mysterious, amorphous, avant-jazz art collective Standing On The Corner don’t release new studio material all that often. In the years since their last full-length, the 2017 mixtape RED BURNS, they’ve appeared on notable albums like Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs and put out a few singles of their own. Today they’re back with another new single called “Baby,” which arrives with …

In 2021, Ada Lea (real name Alexandra Levy) unveiled her enchanting sophomore effort one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, which we named our Album Of The Week. Today, the Montreal singer-songwriter is finally announcing its follow-up, when i paint my masterpiece.

The last we heard from Sam Barker, he was subverting his distinctive “kick free techno” approach on the 2023 EP Unfixed. The four tracks were centered on shifty basslines, translucent percussion, and snotty knob tweaks. An exploration of low-end thuds, the EP was snarling and conceptual. Previously, Barker’s fingerprint had been languid and elven — not quite ambient, but certainly …

Pile kicked off 2024 with the Hot Air Balloon EP to follow the previous year’s album All Fiction. Today, the band is announcing their new LP Sunshine And Balance Beams and sharing the clamorous lead single “Born At Night.”

Farm Aid, the benefit festival that raises money for American farmers, started in 1985 in Champaign, Illinois, and its lineup included concert founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp, among others. After that, Farm Aid became an annual thing, and it’s been running ever since. This year’s Farm Aid is coming to Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis September 20, …