Last month, drummer Miri Tyler announced that she’s leaving Ekko Astral, citing her own mental health as well as her other projects. At the time, the parting seemed amicable, and the band said that Tyler’s last time playing with the band would be at the upcoming second edition of Liberation Weekend, their trans-rights music festival in their Washington, DC hometown. …

Avalon Emerson has been leading up to the release of Written Into Changes, her upcoming album with her recently revived project the Charm, with the very good singles “Jupiter And Mars” and “Eden.” Emerson began working on the record after moving from Berlin to upstate New York, and that move inspired today’s new single, which… The post Avalon Emerson & …

Last November, Rostam teased a new era. His new album American Stories, the follow-up to 2021’s Changephobia, is coming out sometime this year. But before he’s moving forward, he’s looking back. Today the former Vampire Weekend member officially shared the original version of “Campus,” from VW’s 2008 self-titled debut album. (We posted about it back… The post Rostam Revisits Original …

Right now, two different Charli XCX-related movies are playing in multiplexes. Last week, she released her album Wuthering Heights, the soundtrack for the film of the same title. She’s also got her Brat mockumentary The Moment, which is in the midst of a big European rollout. While promoting The Moment in Berlin, Charli pissed off some fans by attending an …

Marisa Shirar is the lead singer for the heavy shoegaze band Fleshwater, and those guys are doing great for themselves right now. Last year, Fleshwater released their sophomore album 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky, and I saw them headline an extremely sick show with Chat Pile and Balmora. Since then, my daughter has… The post Bedelia – “Tightrope” …

A few months ago, the Pernice Brothers frontman Joe Pernice shared his cover of Aimee Mann’s Magnolia soundtrack classic “Save Me.” Now, Pernice has a new Aimee Mann duet of his own. This spring Pernice will release his new solo album Sunny, I Was Wrong. Pernice recorded the LP with a backing band that includes… The post Joe Pernice – …

The term “generative AI music” is a bit of a misnomer, since AI doesn’t actually generate any music. Instead, these programs “train” themselves by scraping information from all the actual, human-created music that exists out in the world and spitting out some approximation of whatever sounds the prompters want. Plenty of times, these AI programs will straight-up plagiarize existing songs, …

Primavera Pro is back, and we had a hand in picking the Latine talent starring in it! Not to be confused with its parent festival, where artists like Gorillaz, Doja Cat, Bad Gyal, Six Sex, and Buscabulla are performing, the industry-focused side of Primavera Sound is where fresh faces meet industry insiders, and the next The post Guatemalan Artist aLex …

Guitarist Adam Miller was a founding member of Johnny Jewel’s great and frustrating Italo-disco crew Chromatics, and he spent two decades in that band. His tenure ended in 2021, when the non-Johnny Jewel members announced that Chromatics were done. Jeff Schroeder, another guitarist, had a 16-year run as a member of Smashing Pumpkins, and it… The post Former Chromatics & …

Last week, Foo Fighters previewed 11 songs from their new album. Now, the band is finally announcing Your Favorite Toy, arriving in April. It’s their 12th studio LP and first with new drummer Ilan Rubin. The second single “Your Favorite Toy” is out today. “‘Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone… The post Foo Fighters Announce …