Tim McGraw Named New 2026 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductee
Tim McGraw is your 2026 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee in the Modern Era category. And though perusing over his numbers, it’s hard to say the accolade is not justified, it also feels a little strange… Well deserved. So happy to see this induction. Tim was my gateway into country music with “Don’t Take […]
‘We didn’t want to play the game’: how Ladytron became unlikely pop survivors
From electroclash pioneers to dancefloor-fillers via viral TikTok fame thanks to their hit Seventeen, the Liverpool band are back with a new album and another metamorphosis It was October 2001 in New York City, and Mira Aroyo and bandmate Reuben Wu were invited to DJ a new party. The gritty, 200 capacity Luxx on Brooklyn’s […]
‘She sounded like the cosmos breathing’: David Byrne, Flying Lotus and more on the greatness of Alice Coltrane
The radical work of the musician and composer was dismissed by sexist critics and overshadowed by the legacy of her late husband John. But today, musical stars from Doja Cat to David Byrne all champion her experimental sound It is 19 years since Alice Coltrane’s death and more than half a century since her best […]
Glyders Share New Video for “Super Glyde” and Announce European Tour
Glyders have shared a new video for Super Glyde, the electrifying opener from their latest album “Forever,” and announced European and UK tour dates for April and May. Directed by Eon Mora, the clip channels Jarmusch and Coppola into a tense, almost-Jungian visual trip — a fitting companion for a band firing on all cylinders. […]
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart Release ‘BODY SOUND’ Today and Share New Single
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart today release their debut trio album BODY SOUND via International Anthem. Assembled across sessions in Chicago and Knoxville and shaped using analog tape machines, the album is deep, melancholy, and triumphant — a stunning collection from three of the city’s most compelling experimentalists. New single burning | counting […]
BTS release new album Arirang ahead of comeback concert
Boyband drops album that speaks to its Korean roots ahead of Seoul comeback concert, with more than a quarter of a million fans expected to attend K-pop stars BTS released a new album on Friday billed as reflecting the maturing boy band’s Korean roots and identity, as buzz built ahead of their open-air comeback concert […]
Big Country Radio Station Owner Cumulus Files For Bankruptcy. Again.
Cumulus Media, the owner of some 65 country music radio stations in the United States, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yet again. The company first filed for bankruptcy in 2017. That requires high speed internet access. On many longer drives in my part of Oregon we don’t have that, and since most new cars […]
Add to playlist: the sharply observed electro-twee of the Femcels and the week’s best new tracks
Following in the footsteps of Heavenly and Tiger Trap the duo’s high-tempo electroclash-indie-pop deftly explores young womanhood in 2020s London From LondonRecommended if you like Heavenly, CSS, the TeenagersUp next I Have to Get Hotter out now The Femcels’ music is euphoric and depressive, sometimes ironic but mostly sincere, often high-tempo, and all delivered with […]
Simon Joyner Announces Nineteenth Album “Tough Love” And Shares ‘Vagabond’ video/single
Simon Joyner shares Vagabond, the first single and video from Tough Love, his nineteenth studio album. Following the direct grief of 2024’s Coyote Butterfly, Joyner refracts tough love through fictional relationships — romantic, familial, political — with acoustic songs prodded by electric guitars, rock tracks channelling the Velvet Underground and Can, and a devastating twenty-minute […]
Blood Sucking Maniacs Share “Down to the River” — A Duet at the Spiritual Heart of Their Debut
Blood Sucking Maniacs, the multigenerational family band led by Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, have shared “Down to the River,” the second single from their self-titled debut, out April 24th via Paradise of Bachelors. A duet between Jo and Terry, the song is described as the album’s spiritual centrepiece — a moving paean to […]