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12 Best Songs of the Week: Kevin Morby, Modest Mouse, Fat Dog, The Mountain Goats, and More

Plus Body Type, Shearwater, Widowspeak, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

May 15, 2026 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 18th Songs of the Week of 2026. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More

Locust Share New Song “Long Distance Lover” (Feat. Slowdive’s Neil Halstead)

The Project of Mark Van Hoen

May 13, 2026 By Mark Redfern

Locust—the long-running project of British electronic musician Mark Van Hoen—have shared a new song, “Long Distance Lover,” which features Slowdive’s Neil Halstead on guitar and vocals from Irish musician Natasha Morrow. More

Interviews

Slowdive on “everything is alive,” Critical Reappraisal, and Finding a New Younger Fan Base

Embracing a Different World

Feb 09, 2024 By Andy Von Pip

Since reforming in 2013, Slowdive has now been around longer than their initial run in the early ’90s. The music industry they now inhabit has morphed into something that would have been completely unrecognizable to their younger selves. But Slowdive’s guitarist, singer (alongside Rachel Goswell), and primary lyricist, Neil Halstead, has never been the type of musician to dwell on the past. More

Ariel Pink vs. Slowdive

Moving Sideways: A Conversation Between Ariel Pink and Neil Halstead

Sep 15, 2017 By John Everhart (Intro and Moderation)

A conversation between Ariel Pink (full name Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) and Neil Halstead, vocalist/guitarist of Slowdive, is seemingly incongruous at first blush, considering their vastly different methodologies. Ariel Pink has released music at a rapid pace, in a cut-up manner, evolving from his early 4-track days onto newer adventures in hi-fi such as 2014’s terrific Pom pom. More

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