News
Nightclub Daydreaming Due Out March 25 via Carpark; Schrader Issues Personal Statement on Their Gender Identity
Mar 09, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Baltimore-based post-punk duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice) are releasing a new album, Nightclub Daydreaming, on March 25 via Carpark. Now they have shared its fourth single, “European Moons,” via a video. Schrader has also issued a lengthy personal statement about their gender identity and preferred pronouns. More
Plus Sunflower Bean, Spoon, Sharon Van Etten, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 11, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2022. More
Nightclub Daydreaming Due Out March 25 via Carpark
Feb 08, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Baltimore-based post-punk duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice) are releasing a new album, Nightclub Daydreaming, on March 25 via Carpark. Now they have shared its third single, “Echo Base,” which is inspired by the late Star Wars actress and acclaimed author, Carrie Fisher, and is accompanied by a horror movie themed video. More
Plus Mitski, Guerilla Toss, Methyl Ethyl, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 14, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a spectacular week for new songs, overwhelming almost, with several notable album announcements. So this week we have an oversized Top 14, rather than our regular Top 10. Fourteen songs for January 14! More
Nightclub Daydreaming Due Out March 25 via Carpark
Jan 11, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Baltimore-based post-punk duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice) have announced a new album, Nightclub Daydreaming, and shared its first two singles, “This Thirst” and “Berliner,” the former via a video. More
"Like anything I fixate on, after a while, it begins to concern my friends."
Jul 06, 2018
By Ed Schrader
In this edition of My Favorite TV Show, Ed Schrader, one half of Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, writes about one of the all time greatest sitcoms, Frasier. The show was a spinoff of 1980s sitcom classic Cheers, ran from 1993 to 2004, and won a then record 37 Emmy Awards, including the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for five years in a row. More
Raleigh, NC Festival in September Also Features MC50, Liz Phair, Moses Sumney, Gang Gang Dance, Waxahatchee, and Others
May 15, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Raleigh, North Carolina’s Hopscotch Music Festival has announced its initial 2018 lineup. Highlights include Grizzly Bear, Belle and Sebastian, Miguel, Real Estate, MC50 performing MC5’s Kick Out the Jams, Liz Phair, Moses Sumney, Gang Gang Dance, More
Riddles Due Out March 2 via Carpark
Mar 09, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Baltimore-based post-punk duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice) released their third album, Riddles, last Friday via Carpark (their first for the label). It was produced by fellow Baltimore resident Dan Deacon. More
Historian Out Now via Matador
Mar 02, 2018
By Lee Adcock
Debate the credibility of the term “indie” all you want-but even in today’s landscape of monolithic labels and bustling support crews, we still expect the independent artist to follow their own vision. To say, then, that rising star Lucy Dacus may have almost single-handedly penned a cinematic masterpiece in Historian shouldn’t surprise you that much. More
Plus Mount Eerie, Father John Misty, Twin Shadow, Mark Kozelek, Alexis Taylor, Wye Oak, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 23, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
It was a crazy good week for new songs. So much so that we could only narrow down this week’s Songs of the Week to 12 tracks, as opposed to our normal 10. Speedy Ortiz almost made the list with “Lucky 88,” the first single off their newly announced new album Twerp Verse, but then it would’ve been 13 songs and we gave into superstition. More
Riddles Due Out March 2 via Carpark
Feb 20, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Baltimore-based post-punk duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice) are releasing their third album, Riddles, on March 2 via Carpark (their first for the label). It was produced by fellow Baltimore resident Dan Deacon. More
Plus Middle Kids, GUM, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Soccer Mommy, Laura Veirs, Jay Som, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 02, 2018
By Mark Redfern
Wow, what a week for fantastic new tracks. Last week when we were putting together the Songs of the Week the pickings were slimmer and the best we could come up with was nine songs, rather than a full 10. More
Interviews
"Our society has no healthy way to talk about death mainly because there is a 'life at all cost' sort of mentality."
Jun 01, 2018
By Mark Redfern
To end out the week, we ask Devlin Rice, bassist of Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, some questions about endings and death. Rice is one half of the post-punk duo with vocalist Ed Schrader. More
Reviews
Mar 02, 2018
By Stephen Wyatt
In the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, multitudinous duos tested the conventional three-and-four-piece approach to composing and performing music. A twist to the traditional expectation of the guitar, bass, drums, and vocals emerged, and in the likeness of Flat Duo Jets, The White Stripes, Death From Above 1979, and No Age proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the age old conventional expectation created a risk, producing expansive sounds under personnel contraction. More
