David Combs from the dearly departed DC indie-pop band Bad Moves has this cool side project Dim Wizard in which he welcomes in a rotating cast of underground stars, one song at a time. That process has led to fun collabs with artist combinations like Ratboys and Mike Krol and Jeff Rosenstock x Illuminati Hotties x Steve Ciolek.

A lot of interesting-looking movies are coming out in the next few months, and one of them is Him, the new supernatural horror thriller from writer-director Justin Tipping. I keep seeing Him previews when I’m at the movies, and it looks both trippy and scary. Tyriq Withers stars as a young football prospect who gets invited to an exclusive training …

It’s time for new Primitive Man. The Denver noise-metal band are back today with the song “Social Construct,” which also serves as the lead single to their forthcoming album Observance, coming out this Halloween. It’ll be their first LP since their 2023 collab album with Full Of Hell, and the first Primitive Man-only album since 2020’s Immersion.

There’s something horrific happening on “Even If It’s Just A Dream,” the latest single from Atlanta trio Sword II — Mari González, Certain Zuko, and Travis Arnold — but the band makes it sound like a romantic reverie. Over a dreamy, levitating synth arpeggio and wistful acoustic guitar strums, González’ airy vocals paint a grisly scene: “Surgeries and batteries/ I’d …

Since 2023’s Euphoric, dance-pop connoisseur Georgia has released a few singles here and there, including last year’s “Too Little Too Much” and “Wanna Play” from last month. Today, she’s back with another new track, “Get Over It,” which she worked on with NYC’s Frost Children.

This year, Montreal duo Softcult has released two singles “Naive” and “Pill To Swallow,” teasing their anticipated debut album. Today, the 2023 Band To Watch announced the larger project these singles are home to: Their first album When A Flower Doesn’t Grow is coming out at the the beginning of next year. The announcement comes with a new powerful new …

Raekwon has a very specific recurring memory of riding his bike up Staten Island’s Todt Hill as a child. After 20 minutes or so, he’d end up at the illustrious Benedict Road neighbourhood, a place where many high-ranking members of the Mafia were based. Parked on the curb, he and his friends looked up in awe at the swanky four-story …

Not even two months ago, Justin Bieber pivoted from living meme back to active popular musician, surprise-releasing his first album in four years, Swag, with just a few hours’ notice. Verifying reports from this summer about more imminent new music, it looks like he’s following this album up much more quickly.

Feels, the joyous and unhinged feral psych album that carried Animal Collective from Sung Tongs to Strawberry Jam, is about to reach its 20th anniversary. The group is celebrating that milestone with a deluxe reissue and a live album available in arcane formats.

First things first: Sex Distortion is a really, really good album title. Nobody knows what it means, it’s provocative, gets the people going, etc. That’s what Travis Egedy, the DIY club producer known the world around as Pictureplane, has chosen to call his new album. Good job, Pictureplane.