The Canadian dance-pop experimenter Jessy Lanza makes fun, frothy, futuristic music, but its upbeat textures can conceal some serious emotional depths. That’s the case for Lanza’s new song “Slapped By My Life,” which she wrote for her husband and collaborator Winston Case when Case was undergoing cancer treatments. Over shimmery keyboards and rat-tat-tat gun programming, Lanza wistfully chants, “I’m gonna …

Emily Hines, an Ohio-born farm girl now based in Nashville, recently signed to the esteemed Keeled Scales label for the broader release of her marvelous debut LP. That album is called These Days, and today Hines has followed it up, perhaps winkingly, with a cover of “These Days,” the stone-cold classic Jackson Browne song first recorded by Nico in 1967. …

Every year, the giants of tons of different experimental and avant-garde music worlds descend upon Knoxville for the Big Ears Festival. The people behind Big Ears just unveiled the lineup for next year’s edition, which includes a ton of legends, covering a wide spectrum. Notable elders on this ridiculously stacked bill include David Byrne, Robert Plant, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, …

Sergio Sayeg, the São Paulo-based artist who makes lovely Latin folk as Sessa, has a new album on the way. Pequena Vertigem De Amor — that’s Lil’ Love Vertigo in Portuguese — is out in November, and he’s previewing it today with the lead single “Vale A Pena.”

One! Nothing wrong with me. Two! I’m just here to blog about Offset and JID’s performance on last night’s Tonight Show. Three! A few months ago, producer Bnyx sampled the shit out of Drowning Pool’s infamous 2001 nü-metal rager “Bodies” on former Migos member Offset’s new single, which is also called “Bodies” and which features the ultra-talented young Atlanta star …

It’s been over a year since “work it out on the remix” entered the public lexicon, and it’s also been over a year since Hinds released their latest studio album Viva Hinds. While touring that album, the Spanish rock duo performed a cover of Charli XCX’s “Girl, so confusing” — not the original version that appeared on Brat, but the …

Earlier this year, Anishininaabe-fronted indie band Ribbon Skirt released their excellent debut album Bite Down, which we named Album Of The Week. Today, the Montreal group is announcing the epilogue for that project in the form of a new EP, PENSACOLA. We get the first look at the new project with the propulsive and distortion-heavy lead single “LUCKY8.” Listen below.

Swaggering, super-diesel Sydney stompers Speed were one of the most exciting bands on the hardcore underground for years before they released their full-length debut Only One Mode last year, and that hasn’t changed one bit. Next week, Speed will join fellow hardcore giants Turnstile on that band’s massive North American tour. Speed and Jane Remover will open every show, with …

In 2023, Home Front released their full-length debut Games Of Power, which earned them a spot on our revered Best New Bands list of that year. Today, the Edmonton post-punks are announcing its followup Watch It Die and sharing the anthemic lead single “Light Sleeper.”

When we last checked in on Brooklyn trombonist Kalia Vandever two years ago, she was releasing We Fell In Turn, a stretched-out solo jazz exploration that I described at the time as “basically ambient music.” Her new album goes in a quite different direction.