This new Lowertown album: It’s gonna be good. “I Like You A Lot“? The perfect oddball love song. “Big Thumb“? An eccentric gem. Now, we get “Worst Friend,” a classically catchy quiet-to-loud rocker. About the track, Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg offer: This song was written with our folk inspirations at heart, June and Johnny… The post Lowertown – “Worst …

New Order (and Joy Division) were recently announced as members of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’s Class Of 2026, and this November, they’ll also be performing at the induction ceremony. That news spawned speculation that founding bassist Peter Hook might be rejoining the band: In the nearly two decades since his departure, Hook has been embroiled in a …

Look, it’s a Grouper tour! These days Liz Harris rarely goes on the road in North America; when she does play shows, she tends to stay closer to her native West Coast. But today she’s announced a run of six tour dates this September, kicking off with an appearance at Chicago’s Sound & Gravity Festival before hitting the East Coast. …

It’s been less than a year since Neil Young released Talkin To The Trees, his first album with new backing band Chrome Hearts. But it sounds like Young and his associates are already ready to spring another one on us. The post Neil Young’s New Album Has Three Songs He Wrote 63 Years Ago appeared first on Stereogum.

Courtney Love, by her own admission, has quickly gone from “Geese-curious” to Geese appreciator. In a couple of Instgram reels earlier this year, the Hole frontwoman said she was still “trying to get” the Brooklyn band, later updating fans that she was “fully liking it” despite “gatekeeping elder millennial troll fans.” Now, a few weeks after she posted on her …

Kim Petras has a brief flirtation with mainstream pop stardom after she appeared on Sam Smith’s 2022 chart-topper “Unholy,” but it didn’t fully click. Since then, Petras has gone back to making the kind of confrontational, hyper-artificial dance-pop that brought her to the dance in the first place. Earlier this year, she asked for her… The post Kim Petras – …

As the Bandcamp page explains, “Media Puzzle (May 7, 1997 – June 22, 2006), foaled in the United States, was an Irish horse best known for his win in the 2002 Melbourne Cup.” A few years ago, a group of Australians borrowed that name for their band, whose new album is appropriately titled New Racehorse.… The post Stream Media Puzzle’s …

We gave Asher White earned an Artist To Watch accolade last year upon the release of her breakout album 8 Tips For Full Catastrophe Living. Since then, the Brooklyn-via-Rhode Island musician has contributed to the benefit compilation Big Hug Volume Three and released a track-by-track cover of Jessica Pratt’s debut album. Today White’s back with “Nightingale’s Version… The post Asher White – …

In the months ahead, the experimental Montreal rockers BIG|BRAVE will release their new album in grief or in hope and head out on a North American tour with the Body, their collaborators on the extremely cool 2021 album Leaving None But Small Birds. We already posted BIG|BRAVE’s recent single “the ineptitude for mutual discernment,” and… The post BIG|BRAVE – “in …

MORN are a scrappy, fired-up young indie rock band from South Wales, and they’ve got a whole lot of urgency and momentum in their sound. They’re part of the young wave of post-punk bands currently running wild in the UK, but their sound is faster and more linear than what a lot of their peers… The post MORN – “The …