Feb 24, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Brian Eno

Brian Eno has announced a new album, The Ship. It’s due out April 29 via Warp and is Eno’s first solo album since 2012’s LUX. The album opens with a 21-minute long title track, includes a poem read by actor Peter Serafinowicz, and ends with a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free.” More

Feb 24, 2016 By Michael Wojtas Magic Wands

This Friday, L.A.‘s Magic Wands will release their sophomore album Jupiter. Today, we’ve got the premiere of the LP’s latest single, “Heartbeat.” More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts SOPHIE

Charli XCX has launched her own label, Vroom Vroom Recordings, and its first release will be the Vroom Vroom EP, to be released digitally this Friday (February 26). She’s shared the EP’s first single, the SOPHIE-produced “Trophy,” via Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 Radio show. More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Wilco

Wilco stopped by NPR’s offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. For the uninitiated, Tiny Desk Concerts are stripped down sets recorded at the desk of Bob Boilen, the host NPR’s All Songs Considered. Watch below as the band performs four songs, three older tracks and one from the band’s most recent album, Star Wars, which they released for free last year. More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Cults

Cults frontwoman Madeline Follin has teamed up with her brother, Richie Follin of Guards (and Willowz) to form a new band appropriately named Follin. The siblings have shared their first song together, “Roxy.” It was premiered by Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 Radio show and can be streamed below. More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Plants and Animals

Montreal-based trio Plants and Animals are releasing a new album, Waltzed In From the Rumbling, on April 29 via Secret City. Previously they had shared the album’s first single, “Stay.” Now the song has a video, which is below. Hanako Hoshimi-Caines directed the clip, which was shot in sunny Tel-Aviv and the snowy woods of Montreal and features various dancers. More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Cavern of Anti-Matter

Y Dydd Olaf, the debut solo album from Gwenno Saunders (released simply under her first name), got a proper full-on release last summer via Heavenly Recordings after an initial sold-out very limited release in 2014. More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Car Seat Headrest

Car Seat Headrest (aka Will Toledo and band), released their proper debut full-length, Teens of Style, last year on Matador and he has a new one, Teens of Denial, due out soon. Now he’s shared a video for “Vincent.” It’s a four-minute radio edit of a near eight-minute long song. Quinn George directed the clip, which features a guy getting extremely drunk intercut with footage of Toledo performing the song. More

Feb 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts David Bowie

Iggy Pop performed at the Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall in New York last night and he covered one song by his late friend and collaborator David Bowie (who passed away in January) and performed another song he co-wrote with Bowie. More