The following acts released quality albums in May 2022 alone: Radiohead off-shoot The Smile, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Sharon Van Etten, The Black Keys, Florence + the Machine, Harry Styles — we’ll stop there for space reasons. It’s been such a wild music year so far, only some of them made the following list. […]
“We knew that people weren’t going to like it,” says Black Country, New Road‘s Lewis Evans. “And [now] I know that people won’t like it.” It doesn’t read like a ringing endorsement of Ants From Up There, the recently issued second album from the British sextet. But the saxophonist correctly insists it’s the “best thing […]
Calendar years have never felt more meaningless. It’s 2022? Hooray. This will be the year I…stay inside a lot. But we can still count on music lists to help us organize our calendars. So here’s our latest: 22 Artists to Watch in 2022. (See what we did with the numbers there? Embrace the chaos.) This […]
One of our favorite rising bands, Black Country, New Road will release their second record Ants From Up There on February 4, 2022. On top of that announcement, the British rockers dropped its first single “Chaos Space Marine.” The news comes exactly a year after the release of their debut, For the first time. The […]