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10 Best Songs of the Week: The Cure, Laura Marling, Silverbacks, Primal Scream, and More 

Plus Divorce, Mediocre, SASAMI, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Sep 27, 2024

Welcome to the 31st Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 20 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Mediocre Share New Single And Video “Litterbug!”

From The Forthcoming Debut Album Growth Eater

Aug 29, 2024

Los Angeles rock duo Mediocre, featuring Piper Torrison and Keely Martin, is set to release their debut album Growth Eater on September 27 via Dangerbird Records. The band have just released their latest single “Litterbug!,” More

22 Best Songs of the Last Two Weeks: Jessie Ware, Alison Goldfrapp, Nation of Language, and More

Plus Blondshell, Girl Ray, Little Dragon, Dawn Richard, Indigo De Souza, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Apr 14, 2023

Welcome to the thirteenth Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was on a brief vacation (it was my daughter’s spring break), so this week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks. Any song first released between April 1 and April 14 was eligible. Hence we have a supersized list week—22 songs is probably the most we’ve ever had in one Songs of the Week main list, but it breaks down to 12 songs from this week and 10 from last week. More

Premiere: Mediocre Shares New Single “Together Together”

To Know You’re Screwed EP Out April 7th via Dangerbird Records

Apr 04, 2023

Boston-based duo Mediocre is the indie rock project of musicians Piper Torrison and Keely Martin. Together, the pair create punchy indie anthems shaded with a shambolic garage rock style and sharply-written pop hooks, the kind of music you’d expect to hear blaring out of a teenage bedroom in a coming-of-age film. The band debuted in 2020 with their Emotion Sickness EP, and later this week they’re set to share their latest EP, To Know You’re Screwed, out April 7th via Dangerbird Records. More