Chuy Lizárraga and Julio Preciado are teaming up for a new tour! On Aug. 19, the two Sinaloan music stars announced their upcoming “El Chou de Chuy Lizárraga” and “Chuy Lizárraga y Julio Preciado” tour, featuring Luis Ángel “El Flaco” on selected dates. The tour will kick off at the Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, The post Chuy Lizárraga & …

Frankie Rose cut her teeth as a member of indie bands like Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, and Crystal Stilts. On her own, she makes gauzy, gothy ’80s-style synthpop. She has toured as an opener for bands like the Jesus And Mary Chain and Swervedriver, and she’ll open for the Charlatans on their North American run next month. Around the …

Pacific Northwest black metal veterans Wolves In The Throne Room are established masters of heavy, mystical evil shit, and they’ve just announced plans for an ambitious new concept album. Estuary, their 10th LP, follows the 2023 EP Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge and takes place in an apocalyptic future. Here’s how frontman Nathan Weaver describes it: The post Wolves In The …

The Kyoto-born, Chicago-based musician Sen Morimoto has no fixed genre, and they’ve messed around with things like jazz and rap on past records. This fall, Morimoto will follow their 2023 album Diagnosis and the 2024 companion-piece EP BONK! with a new LP called Time Is On Your Side, and the lead single suggests another stylistic pivot. The post Sen Morimoto …

LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) is a prolific New England musician. He’s been releasing avant-pop music for over a decade but also contributes to the lo-fi rock duo Taxidermists with childhood pal Salvadore McNamara, the electro-pop project Safe Mind with Boy Harsher’s Gus Muller, and the dance project Club Casualties with producer Ghost. (He even had a studio space in the …

Today, London, UK-via-Asheville, NC musician Bex Vines released “Misfortune,” her debut single under the moniker lifepath99. The song, which was produced by Liam Brand (Zach Bryan, Mount Kimbie), transforms a nightmare into alternative bliss. The post lifepath99 – “Misfortune” appeared first on Stereogum.

Earlier this year, the former Muncie Girls leader Lande Hekt released Lucky Now, her first solo album since her band broke up in 2023. It was lovely. Today, Hekt announces plans to follow that record with a new EP called Threadbare, and it seems likely that this record will be just as lovely, at least if we’re judging by its …

Claire Cronin is the author of the 2020 book Blue Light Of The Screen, about her obsession with horror movies and supernatural imagery, and she’s also a singer-songwriter who makes uneasy folk music that’s inspired by doom metal and drone. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Cronin, but she’s about to return with her new LP The Bruise, …

Bibio’s Stephen Wilkinson and Dorian Concept’s Oliver Johnson have known each other for over 15 years, but the instinct to start creatively collaborating didn’t happen until a few years ago when Wilkinson saw Johnson’s video for 2022’s “Let It All Go.” Since then, they’ve been working on an audio-visual project, aptly titled Bibio & Dorian Concept. Yesterday, they announced their debut album …

The Boston art-punk band Mission Of Burma got started in 1979. With their live shows and their early records, the 1981 EP Signals, Calls And Marches and the 1982 album Vs., they left an indelible stamp on indie rock history. Mission Of Burma first broke up in 1983 because of frontman Roger Miller’s tinnitus. They got back together in the …