Two years ago, free jazz veteran Alan Braufman, a New York City native now based in Salt Lake City, assembled an impressive band and kicked out an impressive album, Infinite Love Infinite Tears. He’s got another one in the queue. Anthem For Peace is set for release in May, preceded today by lead single “Angels.”… The post Alan Braufman Announces …

Denzel Curry has a new crew. Recently, the tireless Florida rap monster rounded up his peers Bktherula, TiaCorine, Key Nyata, and FERG (formerly A$AP Ferg) to form a collective called the Scythe. On Friday, the group will release their official debut Strictly 4 The Scythe. I have heard it, and it’s exactly as much fun… The post The Scythe – …

Look, don’t be alarmed. The combination of the words “Sprints” and “Trickle Down” might immediately conjure some kind of bathroom-emergency situation, perhaps a memory of doing the pee-pee dance in the driver’s seat while desperately attempting to find a parking space before something goes terribly wrong. Don’t worry. That’s not what’s happening here. It’s just… The post Sprints – “Trickle …

Over the years, Columbus singer-songwriter Mark Allen Scott has expanded his solo project Villagerrr into something like a real-deal band, and they’ve recently become affiliated with one of the most reliably great record labels in indie music, Winspear. The label reissued Villagerrr’s 2024 album Tear Your Heart Out last year, and they’ll release the next… The post Villagerrr Announce New …

This spring American Football will release their fourth album, once again self-titled and referred to semi-officially as LP4. It’s the legendary emo/post-rock band’s first album in seven years, and it has occasioned a profile in GQ written by Grayson Haver Currin, the current king of the format. The story is long and rich with detail, and some of those details …

Yay! Greg Mendez is back! We last heard from the Philly singer-songwriter in 2024 with First Time / Alone, which was one of our favorite EPs of the year. Now he’s announcing his new album Beauty Land — his debut for Dead Oceans — and a North American tour. The quiet, candid lead single “I… The post Greg Mendez Announces …

Finally! Basement returned in 2024 with their first US headlining shows in five years. I went to one; it was awesome, just pure, sweaty mayhem. They played zero songs from their last record, 2018’s Beside Myself, which I thought was hilarious. Now the beloved emo band is finally announcing that album’s followup, Wired, arriving in… The post Basement Announce First …

New wave and hardcore were both born out of punk, more or less, but the two genres existed in completely separate worlds in the ’80s. Their paths simply did not intersect, except in the form of weird little fun facts, like the story about how Belinda Carlisle was the original drummer for the Germs but she quit the band before …

Chicago’s Friko announced their new album Something Worth Waiting For last month with the balladic lead single “Seven Degrees,” which we enjoyed enough to name it one of the Best Songs Of The Week. Today Friko are back with “Choo Choo,” a real rocker that’s likely to strike a chord with those of us who… The post Friko – “Choo …

Today we celebrate 60 years of Anthony Terrell Smith, better known to the world as Tone Lōc, one of the most distinctive voices to ever come out of the West… The post Happy 60th Birthday To West Coast Legend Tone Lōc! appeared first on .