Girl groups, like boy bands, have a limited lifespan: Their dissolution is all but inevitable, and they go through hell to get there. It’s one of those realities about pop music that we pretend isn’t going to happen this time, until it does, and then all of a sudden we always noticed the cracks in the facade, the outages in …

Jess Williamson releases her new record A Mile South Of Heaven next month, and she’s inventing new forms of album promotion. Today, she revealed that she adopted a highway that helped inspire the LP, and she’s declaring it “the unofficial Mile South of Heaven.” The post Jess Williamson Adopted A Highway appeared first on Stereogum.

David Sylvian has announced his new album The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing, coming next year. It’s billed as the followup to 2009’s Manafon, though since then the Japan singer has released the ambient excursion There’s A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight and various compilations. The post David Sylvian Announces New Album <em>The …

These days, the Flaming Lips are a band in some disarray, and it’s nice to be reminded of a time what that wasn’t the case. Anniversary reissues are good for that. When they released their 2006 album At War With The Mystics, the Lips were already a psych-rock institution who’d become an unlikely touring sensation. Their previous album, 2002’s Yoshimi …

In June, Kalia Vandever released their new album Mana. Now, the trombonist and composer is teaming up with Darkside’s Dave Harrington for a joint LP called Evergreen, arriving this fall. The post Kalia Vandever & Dave Harrington Announce New Album <em>Evergreen</em>: Hear “The Chase” appeared first on Stereogum.

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Seattle indie rockers Chastity Belt have been making fuzzy, beatific music for 15 years now, and we gave Album Of The Week honors to their last LP, 2024’s Live Laugh Love. A couple of weeks ago, Chastity Belt released two tracks, “I Could Say Less” and “Pavement.” As it turns out, both of those songs will appear on Chastity Belt’s …

Fontaines D.C.’s upcoming Dopamine Chamber promises to be one of the biggest rock albums of the fall, and it could be something special. The band has been debuting new songs live lately, and we’ve already heard lead single “Marianne.” The record has the group’s first-ever featured-guest collaborator: Rosalía, who shows up on the as-yet-unheard “Where Is Gone?” Today, Fontaines share …

Scottish post-rock warriors Mogwai have had a hell of a run over the past 30 years or so. Early next year, they’ll release a career-spanning collection under the title Happy Tears. It’s funny to think that Mogwai are the kind of band to put out a greatest-hits album, but it also makes its own kind of sense. That compilation will …

Fairly often these days, I see a fresh round of social-media discourse on whether or not R.E.M. have been forgotten, whether new generations don’t appreciate what the college-rock godfathers brought to the game. Basically, people constantly talk about whether R.E.M. get talked about enough, which would certainly suggest that they do get talked about. R.E.M. haven’t been a band for …