Jul 02, 2020 By Samantha Small

Two bands that deserve your attention, Porridge Radio and Lala Lala, have teamed up for “Good For You,” a song completely made in quarantine. Porridge Radio vocalist Dana Margolin and drummer Sam Yardley appear on the track along with Lala Lala’s Lillie West. According to Margolin via Twitter: “It’s called ‘Good For You and it’s about being full of resentment. I really loved making it.”  More

Jan 11, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2019. We took an extended break in December, as there aren't too many notable new songs released at the end of the year (beyond endless Christmas covers), but the past week has been filled with exciting new album announcements, most accompanied by new singles worthy of consideration for this list. More

Nov 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, came out in September via Hardly Art. Now she has shared a self-directed video for the album's "Copycat" and announced some more tour dates. Watch the video and check out the tour dates below. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We tend to avoid including cover versions in our Songs of the Week list, as they are not truly new songs, but this week we have included two notable ones in our main list. We also rarely include live songs in our Top 10 songs, but have made a big exception this week. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, came out today via Hardly Art and it's our Album of the Week. In his review for Under the Radar, our writer Timothy Michalik declared The Lamb "perhaps one of this year's finest indie rock records to come out of Chicago, if not the country." More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, came out today via Hardly Art. Previously "Water Over Sex" was one of our Songs of the Week and we also shared the more low-key and haunting "Dove" (which was an honorable mention in our Songs of the Week list). Now she has shared a video for "Scary Movie."  More

Sep 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We spent the week wondering if Hurricane Florence was going to hit us here at our headquarters in Southwest Virginia. Lucky for us, it seems to have angled further south, and while we may still get some heavy rains and winds in the coming days and week, it likely won't be as devastating to Virginia as feared. More

Sep 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lala Lala is the project of Chicago-based Lillie West. Her new album, The Lamb, is due out September 28 via Hardly Art. Previously "Water Over Sex" was one of our Songs of the Week. Now West has shared another song from the album, the more low-key and haunting "Dove." More

Aug 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week's Songs of the Week is packed. Firstly boygenius, the new supergroup featuring Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers, released three songs this week and all were worthy of the list. Thus we decided to expand it from a Top 10 to a Top 12, so that 10 separate artists were still included, be even that wasn't enough, so we added one more for an unlucky Top 13.  More