On Colter Wall’s Tour Cancellation and “Indefinite Hiatus”
It’s better to read statements about cancellations and postponements instead of deaths and funerals. Colter Wall should be given the grace to find whatever equilibrium is necessary for him to continue in music. It has become increasingly frustrating as a music consumer that especially after the pandemic, performers seem to be more quick and at […]
Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Geologist Unveil New Instrumental Duo ‘Croz Boyce’
Animal Collective’s Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) have announced Croz Boyce, a new instrumental duo project. Their self-titled debut, out May 8th via Domino, was built across state lines — Portner sending guitar themes from North Carolina, Weitz responding with electronics from D.C. Watch the video for debut single Hanging Out With […]
Wendy Eisenberg Shares “Vanity Paradox” Video Ahead of Self-Titled Album
Wendy Eisenberg shares Vanity Paradox, the final single from their self-titled album (out April 3rd via Joyful Noise), accompanied by a Ruby Mars-directed video filmed around Atlantic City’s 65-foot Lucy the Elephant. The track traces the vertiginous loop of self-examination in artmaking. Source Wendy Eisenberg has shared Vanity Paradox, the third and final single from […]
On her new album, Kacey Musgraves returns home, to the ‘Middle of Nowhere’
Before making her upcoming sixth album, the country star returned to her small-town Texas home and discovered the power of in-between spaces. “I found a lot of clarity there,” she says. (Image credit: Kelly Christine Sutton)
Justice Department’s New Deal with Live Nation Stinks
There is probably one opportunity, and one opportunity only to solve the biggest problem plaguing the live music industry in the United States, and that is the current trial that Live Nation is going through. Its almost like if you systematically fire all the lawyers who are good at their job fron the Justice Department, […]
‘I’ve always had this blind faith’: Morgan Nagler on writing with alt-rock’s biggest names – and making her solo debut at 47
After starting out as a child actor, the US artist found music. Now co-writing with Phoebe Bridgers, Haim and Kim Deal, her dogged, DIY career has been powered by conviction The title of Morgan Nagler’s solo debut, I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, speaks to the sort of wisdom you can only […]
The 2026 Oscars’ best original song nominees, cruelly ranked
There are two clear frontrunners in this year’s best original song race, either of which would be a worthy Oscar winner. Diane Warren is also nominated, for the 17th time. (Image credit: Netflix)
Ron Howard, Emma Rice, Neil Tennant and more on Liza Minnelli: ‘She holidayed in my Cornish bungalow’
The showbiz legend has spent her whole life in the spotlight. As she turns 80, her friends and collaborators share their stories from Hollywood singalongs to acid house raves I first met Liza in 1963 when I was playing Eddie in a movie called The Courtship of Eddie’s Father. I was seven years old and […]
AHRKH & Bell Lungs: Ceremonial County Tape Series Vol.XXI – Isle of Wight | Worcestershire
The latest in the Folklore Tapes Ceremonial Counties series pairs AHRKH — the solo venture of Gnod’s A P Macarte — with Scottish/Turkish singer and sound artist Bell Lungs. Macarte delivers a satisfying slab of arhythmic, amelodic drone inspired by the Isle of Wight’s Mottistone longstone, while Bell Lungs weaves an extraordinary fifteen-minute folk opera […]
‘My family was threatened multiple times’: Arab-American rockers Prostitute on confronting an Islamophobic US
The Michigan band satirically adopt Muslim stereotypes in their songs, pushing back against post-9/11 hate. As their incendiary debut is reissued, they explain their ‘evil’ music ‘I’m the motherfucker who took down the towers,” screams Prostitute’s Moe Kazra on All Hail, opening their nightmarish, theatrical debut album Attempted Martyr. Over crushing fusions of industrial punk […]