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Hopscotch 2024 Lineup – St. Vincent, Waxahatchee, Faye Webster, Snail Mail, and More

Raleigh, NC Festival in September Also Features Wednesday, Amen Dunes, Indigo De Souza, MJ Lenderman, Guided By Voices, The Jesus Lizard, Ty Segall, Hovvdy, and Others

May 30, 2024

Raleigh, North Carolina’s Hopscotch Music Festival has announced its initial 2024 lineup. Headliners include St. Vincent, Waxahatchee, and Faye Webster. More

Amen Dunes Shares Video for New Song “Rugby Child”

Death Jokes Due Out This Friday via Sub Pop

May 07, 2024

Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) is releasing a new album, Death Jokes, this Friday via Sub Pop, his first album for the label. Now he has shared its fourth single, “Rugby Child,” via a music video. More

Apr 10, 2024

Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) is releasing a new album, Death Jokes, on May 10 via Sub Pop, his first album for the label. Now he has shared its third single, the nine-minute long “Round the World,” via a music video. He’s also announced some new tour dates. More

15 Best Songs of the Week: Elbow, Iron & Wine and Fiona Apple, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and More

Plus Camera Obscura, Julia Holter, St. Vincent, La Luz, King Hannah, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks

Mar 08, 2024

Welcome to the eighth Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we were deep in deadline-mode finishing our new print issue, so this week’s Songs of the Week covers the last two weeks. To be honest, we are still putting the finishing touches on the issue today and tomorrow, but there were so many notable songs released in the last two weeks that we still had to find the time to do a Songs of the Week today. More

Amen Dunes Shares Video for New Song “Boys”

Death Jokes Due Out May 10 via Sub Pop

Mar 07, 2024

Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) is releasing a new album, Death Jokes, on May 10 via Sub Pop, his first album for the label. Now he has shared its second single, “Boys,” via a music video. More

12 Best Songs of the Week: Beth Gibbons, Caroline Polachek and Weyes Blood, Yard Act, and More

Plus Amen Dunes, Mannequin Pussy, A. Savage, Laetitia Sadier, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Feb 09, 2024

Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 12 this week, narrowed down from the 20 songs we seriously considered. More

Feb 08, 2024

Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) has announced a new album, Death Jokes, and shared its first single, “Purple Land,” via a music video. He’s also announced some new tour dates. More

11 Best Songs of the Week: Courtney Barnett, The Goon Sax, Strand of Oaks, Damon Albarn, and More

Plus Nation of Language, Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Jul 09, 2021

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2021. The American music industry pretty took Monday off due to Sunday’s July 4th holiday, so we expected slimmer pickings this week. It was not to be, thanks for some exciting album announcements. We settled on a Top 11 this week. More

Jul 06, 2021

Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) has teamed up with British duo Sleaford Mods (Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn) for a new song, “Feel Nothing.” It is his first single for Sub Pop, which has just announced they’ve signed Amen Dunes. More

Amen Dunes Shares Video for “Believe”

Freedom Out Now via Sacred Bones

Jun 18, 2018

Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) released his acclaimed new album, Freedom, back in March via Scared Bones. Now he has shared a video for “Believe,” which a press release says is “a song about nostalgia, mortality, the passage of time, and the feminine powers that preside over life.” More

Outside Lands 2018 Lineup: Florence + The Machine, Janet Jackson, CHVRCHES, Beck, Bon Iver, and More

Plus The Weeknd, Huey Lewis and the News, Father John Misty, Broken Social Scene, Jamie xx, Mac DeMarco, Jessie Ware, Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, James Blake, and More

Apr 03, 2018

Outside Lands have announced their 2018 lineup. The festival goes down August 10 - 12 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The headliners are Florence + The Machine, Janet Jackson, and The Weeknd. More

Amen Dunes Announce “Cowboy Worship” EP

Share New Track "Song to the Siren"

Dec 08, 2014

Musical artist Damon McMahon, a.k.a. Amen Dunes, has announced the release of a new EP, “Cowboy Worship.” More

Premiere: Amen Dunes Mixtape (Le Guess Who? Edition)

Nov 20-23 in Utrecht, Netherlands

Nov 12, 2014

Le Guess Who? is exactly one week away, and the anticipation of our trip to Utrecht has hit a fever pitch. We’ve already featured mixes from Ought and SUUNS—both playing the Netherlands festival. Today we’re hearing from Amen Dunes. More



Interviews

Amen Dunes on “Freedom”

Microphone Mathematics

Jul 16, 2018

I found Damon McMahon on the southern route of his U.S. tour, headed to Louisville from Nashville in a van with his bandmates listening to him answer questions about, among other things, them, which is strange. More


Reviews

May 20, 2024

Under his moniker Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon’s music is ever-changing. Even at its most accessible, his work is existentialist, mercurial, and layered. More

May 14, 2014

On his third studio album as Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon has created a melting pot of inviting tones rooted in the traditions of soul king Sam Cooke, the spirit of jazz’s First Lady Alice Coltrane, and the romance of Motown man Marvin Gaye. More