Ian Sweet
Los Angeles musician Jilian Medford calls herself Ian Sweet.
Her forthcoming album Sucker features the delightfully quirky “Your Spit”.
Kiss me like you mean it!
London Grammar x SebastiAn
UK’s London Grammar have teamed up with French artist/producer SebastiAn on a new song.
He does vocalist Hannah Reid justice.
It’s from the forthcoming album London Grammar – The Remixes.
“Dancing By Night” is one of two new tracks.
Grian Chatten
Grian Chatten is the lead singer of the one of my fave Irish post-punk bands Fontaines D.C.
His first solo album, Chaos for the Fly, leads with the song “Fairlies”.
Be Your Own Pet
Be Your Own Pet has reformed.
After a lengthy hiatus the Nashville quartet have signed with Jack White’s Third Man Records and the album Mommy is due in August.
The lead single “Worship the Whip” is one of the finest odes to S&M extant.
Water From Your Eyes
Water From Your Eyes, the art-rock duo Rachel Brown and Nate Amos from Brooklyn, offer their new album Everyone’s Crushed.
Listen here to the 1st single “Barley”.
In the 2nd single, “True Life”, they sing of how Neil Young would not let them use some of the lyrics to “Cinnamon Girl”.
“Barley”
“True Life”
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
We once again have the silken voice of the exquiste transgender artist ANOHNI.
Her 6th album My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross features the song “It Must Change” with her band the Johnsons.
Blur
I’ve always been a Blur man.
One of my favorite bands, leader Damon Albarn is the consummate artist.
The Ballad of Darren will be their 9th album with the new song “The Narcissist” a preview.
Boys Noize, Pussy Riot, Alice Glass
Pussy Riot teams up with techno-punk DJ Boys Noize and vocalist Alice Glass to tell Putin to “Put it in a Dick Cage”.
“Chastity”
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rodrigo y Gabriela, the acoustic flamenco duo, continue to create engaging instrumentals.
On their 6th album, In Between Thoughts…a New World, my fave is “Descending to Nowhere”.
The Veldt
The Veldt is a band from Raleigh, North Carolina.
They were signed to Capitol Records in 1989 but the label rejected their debut album, Illuminated, and the band didn’t release another one until 1994.
This long lost album was produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins and now the album will finally be available.
The song “The Everlasting Gobstopper” is our first listen.
Thanks to Earl Douglas for the insight.
PJ Harvey
It’s been 7 years since we last heard from PJ Harvey.
Her 10th album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, is due in July.
“A Child’s Question, August” is her advance offering.
P.S. I first experienced PJ Harvey years ago at a small club in Boston/Cambridge with about 11 other people. Iconoclastically fascinating as always.
“A Child’s Question, August”
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The Last Dinner Party
The Last Dinner Party, a female quintet out of England, introduce themselves with the marvelous song “Nothing Matters”.
What a debut!