News
Jim Goodwin’s Late Deliveries Mix Features Madi Diaz, Blossoms, and Some Great Bands You’ve Certainly Never Heard Of
Dec 23, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Jim Goodwin of the Christmas Underground blog returns with 2024’s indie rock Christmas mix, this year titled Late Deliveries. Every year for two decades Goodwin puts together an annual mix of indie rock Christmas songs, handing out free burned CDs to friends and also posting it online via Mixcloud and Christmas Underground. More
Plus Sky Ferreira, girlpuppy, Madi Diaz, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 06, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week, due to the Thanksgiving break, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More
New Single Co-written with Charlie Martin of Hovvdy and Carrie K.
Nov 25, 2024
By Andy Von Pip
Madi Diaz releases “Kid on Christmas” a heartfelt holiday track co-written with Charlie Martin (Hovvdy) and Carrie K. 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
By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)
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
Proceeds Will Benefit Abortion Within Reach Coalition
Nov 07, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz, along with S.G. Goodman and Joy Oladokun, has shared a cover of Patty Griffin’s 2002 song “Be Careful.” The cover, produced by Diaz and Goodman and engineered by Alex Hope, features backing vocals from Courtney Marie Andrews and Savana Santos. More
Tour Kicks Off in October
Sep 22, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has shared a video for her new single, “Love Looks Different.” More
Plus Danger Mouse and Black Thought, Ezra Furman, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 15, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 27th Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a strong week for new tracks. Really any of the Top 6 could’ve been our #1 song. We settled on a Top 12 this week. More
Tour Kicks Off in October
Jul 12, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has shared a video for her new single, “Hangover.” Diaz has also announced a North American tour. More
Same History, New Feelings EP Out Now via ANTI-
Mar 28, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has performed a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert for NPR. Diaz performed several songs off of her most recent album, History of a Feeling. More
Same History, New Feelings EP Due Out March 4 via ANTI-
Jan 31, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has announced the release of a new EP consisting of four reworkings of songs from her newest album, History of a Feeling. The EP, entitled Same History, New Feelings, will be out on March 4 via ANTI, and it features collaborations with Waxahatchee, Natalie Hemby, Courtney Marie Andrews, and Angel Olsen. Diaz has shared a reworking of the song “Resentment” featuring Waxahatchee. More
History of a Feeling Out Now via ANTI-
Nov 03, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has shared a remix of “Crying In Public” by electronic pop band MUNA. The original song was featured on her most recent album, History of a Feeling. Diaz has also announced that she will be a supporting act for Waxahatchee on her 2022 tour. More
Plus Dry Cleaning, Amyl and the Sniffers, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 30, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a light week for great new tracks, but we came up with nine we really liked. More
History of a Feeling Due Out August 27 via ANTI-
Jul 28, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz is releasing a new album, History of a Feeling, on August 27 via ANTI-. Now she has shared another song from it, the soulful and stripped back “Resentment,” via a video for it that features her in a junkyard. She has also announced some tour dates. More
Plus Jessie Ware, José González, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 11, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2021. Admittedly, there weren’t too many new songs that overly impressed us this week. We almost considered taking a week off. But there were enough tracks of note to keep us in the game. Still, we only came up with a Top 8, instead of our usual Top 10 (or sometimes we have an expanded Top 12). More
History of a Feeling Due Out August 27 via ANTI-
Jun 11, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has announced a new album, History of a Feeling, and shared a new song from it, “Woman In My Heart,” via a video for the single. More
May 04, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Nashville-based singer/songwriter Madi Diaz has shared a new song, “Nervous,” via a video for the new single. More
Mar 23, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has shared a video for her new single “New Person, Old Place.” This marks her second single for ANTI-, following last month’s “Man in Me.” More
New Single Out Now Via ANTI-
Feb 11, 2021
By Emma Goad
Nashville-based artist Madi Diaz has shared a video for her new song “Man In Me.” It marks her first single for ANTI-. More
Interviews
Co-dependency and Chronicling its Aftermath
Sep 15, 2021
By Celine Teo-Blockey
That moment in a relationship where two lives become completely entwined can seem like are a couple’s nirvana, until things start to fall apart. Then it’s a co-dependency with all the unhealthy connotations that entails. Nashville-based singer/songwriter Madi Diaz chronicles this in History of a Feeling after her breakup from long-term partner Teddy Geiger, who has since come out as transgender. More
Reviews
Feb 09, 2024
By Caleb Campbell
Madi Diaz opens Weird Faith with a question and a confession: “What the fuck do you want?/‘Cause I’ll give you all that I’ve got.” Those opening lines encapsulate Diaz’s sixth full-length album, a record that is often tender and unfussed in presentation, yet full of unsparing honesty. More
Sep 07, 2021
By Caleb Campbell
There’s often a thin veil of unreality to most songwriters, an element of creative license that divides the world of the artist’s creation from our own. On Madi Diaz’s History of a Feeling, her fifth full-length album一and her first for ANTI一those walls fall away. Diaz relies on no such abstractions, delivering her most pointed, sincere, and even bitter work yet. More
