It’s a time-honored tradition: the one-off single recorded during the sessions for your most recent album that, for whatever reason, did not make it onto the tracklist. Naima Bock has one of them today, a new tune called “Rolling” that could have appeared, but in fact did not appear, on her 2024 stunner Below A Massive Dark Land. Well, why …

Since their 2023 album Asking For A Ride, White Reaper dealt with the departure of their rhythm section. But no loss can be heard on their new song “Honestly,” which is the lead single from their just-announced new LP Only Slightly Empty.

Bre Morrell is the lead singer for the excellently dreamy Texas band Temple Of Angels, who released the lovely debut album Endless Pursuit a couple of years ago. Shaun Durkan used to front Weekend, a very cool San Francisco psych rock power trio who were fated to go forever underrated because they arrived on the radar around the same time …

Lorde will release her new album Virgin in just a couple of days. After streaming the album in full for fans earlier this week at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right (the same venue she name-dropped on lead single “What Was That”), she stopped by for an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. She didn’t perform, but she did talk …

Abomination Revealed At Last. Amazing title, right? Even before you see that bugged-out cover art, it conjures images of rubbery ’50s sci-fi monsters who lash out at the world because nobody understands them. It implies sympathy, but that sympathy might not be what OSEES, the prolific rock ‘n’ institution once known as Thee Oh Sees, have in mind. Instead, bandleader …

Newly minted superstar Doechii’s past year has been a blur, so it’s possible you missed “Balloon,” her feature on Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia. But that song was a highlight of the album and of Doechii’s catalog so far, a jubilant and colorful 2 Live Crew-sampling ascent to the horizon line. With that in mind, it’s cool that, as if heeding …

Clifton Chenier, the Louisiana musician who pioneered the Creole R&B hybrid genre known as zydeco, isn’t with us anymore. He passed away in 1987 from kidney disease that resulted from his diabetes. But when you’re a pioneer, your creations can outlast you. Today marks the 100th anniversary of Chenier’s birth in Leonville, Louisiana, and it’s the day that Smithsonian Folkways …

Just think: While you’ve been getting down and out about the liars and dirty dirty cheats of the world, you could’ve been getting down to this sick beat.

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