Tame Impala unveils three songs from its just-released album, Deadbeat, as part of the first installment of the new live video series Sound Check at Cherry Lane Theatre. Filmed at the A24-owned New York venue, the episode sports the live debut of album opener “My Old Ways” plus the pre-release singles “Dracula” and “Loser.” With […]
Rosalía will make a grand re-entry next month with her fourth album, LUX, which is due Nov. 7 from Columbia. The project was unveiled last night (Oct. 20) around Madrid’s Gran Via, where the lights were turned off and on while revealing the official album artwork (see below). LUX was recorded with the London Symphonic […]
A routine dentist visit provided the unlikely creative spark behind Tranquilizer, the latest album from Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never project. The set is due Nov. 17 in digital form from Warp and four days later in physical editions. Three new songs, “For Residue,” “Bumpy” and “Lifeworld,” are out now. Tranquilizer was also informed by […]
Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer project will return early next year with its first album in five years, Normal Isn’t, which will arrive Feb. 6 from Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG. The lead track, “Self Evident,” is out now in tandem with a video filmed at a special album preview event at Exchange L.A. in August. “Instead of […]
As his music suggests, the Canadian experimentalist known as JayWood (real name Jeremy Haywood-Smith) is the type of guy who enjoys thought-provoking conversation about topics like manifestation, astrology, and mysticism—not in a blind follower kind of way, but in a loose and curious, self-reflective way. He offers glimpses of these ideas throughout his new release […]
Every year, I’m relieved not to be attending Coachella. I went for the festival’s first 10 years, then limited myself to the surrounding parties. My last trip was in 2013, when the lineup looked like I had personally curated it, and I had such a miserable time that I swore off the desert for good. […]
This new series highlights on-the-record conversations that didn’t make it into the published feature, with text directly lifted directly from the transcript. Anything off the record remains off the record. By the time I interviewed Ace for his February 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without feature, the weekly series was in its third year. He […]
The history of recorded music is not long. There are records available from the very earliest days of sound reproduction, which in its familiar form was invented by some guy named Edison in New Jersey. If your favorite band is or was Bon Jovi, it’s possible that one of Bon Jovi’s great-grandparents was alive when […]
Though Boris has been steadily releasing albums since 1996, there will always be a before and after Pink for the band. Formed in Tokyo in 1992, Boris has released 29 studio albums, 14 EPs, and seven live albums since its inception. However, Pink remains their zenith, a sprawling 47-minute masterwork that marries sludge metal with […]
Sometimes you have to blow things up and start over again to some degree, even if things were working in the first place. A fresh start, a blank canvas, can inspire the creative process like the first time. But does it count as starting over if you’re doing it with your day-ones? Besphrenz, the genre-defying […]