Mar 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Pitchfork Music Festival has announced their 2023 lineup. The Smile, Big Thief, and Bon Iver will be headlining. Other acts include Weyes Blood, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Alvvays, Nation of Language, and more. More

Mar 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) released a new album, Reset, last year via Domino. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “In My Body” and announced some new summer U.S. tour dates. More

Nov 14, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) released a new album, Reset, in August via Domino. Now they have announced an expanded edition of the album, shared a new video for the album’s “Whirlpool,” and shared one of the bonus tracks, “Everything’s Been Leading to This (Songbook Instrumental).” More

Aug 12, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) have released a new album, Reset, today via Domino. They have also shared a video for the album track “Danger.” More

Aug 05, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 30th Songs of the Week of 2022. There were lots of strong contenders this week, although there was a pretty clear #1 and our #2 was a new band we’d never even heard of before this week. We settled on a Top 12 again this week, like last week. More

Aug 03, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) have shared a video for a new single, “Edge Of The Edge.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming collaborative album, Reset, which will be out on August 12 via Domino. More

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

Jul 13, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) and Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3) have announced a collaborative album, Reset, which will be out on August 12 via Domino. They have also shared an animated video for a new album single, “Go On.” More

Oct 19, 2021 By Joey Arnone

One-man band Cheval Sombre (aka Chris Porpora) has announced the release of a new cover EP, Althea. It will feature covers of the Grateful Dead’s 1980 song “Althea,” Dire Straits’ “So Far Away,” and “Are You Ready” by Pete ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember, who produced the EP’s title track. The EP will be out on November 5, digitally via Sonic Cathedral and on 10-inch clear vinyl via Sonic Cathedral/Fat Elvis. More

Feb 17, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Danish punks Iceage have announced a new album, Seek Shelter, and shared a new song from it, “Vendetta,” via a video for the single. More

Feb 09, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3), has announced a new remix album titled Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough. It consists of remixes of six songs from his most recent album, All Things Being Equal, along with two remixes of songs previously released exclusively in Japan. Kember has also shared an animated video for the album’s remix of “On a Summer’s Day.” More

Dec 08, 2020 By Joey Arnone

Casper Clausen, frontman of Danish trio Efterklang, has just shared a new single titled “Ocean Wave.” This is the second single from his upcoming debut solo album, Better Way, which will be released on January 9, 2021 via City Slang. More

Oct 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Casper Clausen, frontman of Danish trio Efterklang, has announced his debut solo album, Better Way via City Slang, and shared its first single, the nearly nine-minute long “Used to Think.” More

Jun 05, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Pete Kember (formerly of Spacemen 3) has released his first solo album under the Sonic Boom name in 30 years, All Things Being Equal, today via Carpark. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our review of the album. More

Jun 04, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Pete Kember (formerly of Spacemen 3) is releasing his first solo album under the Sonic Boom name in 30 years, All Things Being Equal, tomorrow via Carpark. More

May 05, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Pete Kember (formerly of Spacemen 3) is releasing his first solo album under the Sonic Boom name in 30 years, All Things Being Equal, on June 5 via Carpark. Now he has shared another song from the album, “Things Like This (A Little Bit Deeper),” via a video. More

Apr 02, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Pete Kember (formerly of Spacemen 3) is releasing his first solo album under the Sonic Boom name in 30 years, All Things Being Equal, on June 5 via Carpark. Now he has shared another song from the album, “The Way That You Live,” via a visualizer directed by Roland van der Velden. More

Mar 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Pete Kember (formerly of Spacemen 3) has announced his first solo album under the Sonic Boom name in 30 years, All Things Being Equal, and shared its first single, “Just Imagine,” via a video for the song. More

Sep 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Baltimore duo Beach House (Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally) released a new album, 7 (titled as such because it’s their seventh album), back in May via Sub Pop. It was our Album of the Week. Now they have shared a trippy video for the album’s “Drunk in LA” directed by Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3), as well as a remix of the album’s “Black Car” by Sonic Boom. More

Nov 19, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Stereolab’s co-founder Tim Gane has teamed up with synth player Holger Zapf and former Stereolab drummer Joe Dillworth to form a new trio named Cavern of Anti-Matter. They will be releasing their debut album, void beats / invocation trex, on February 19 via Duophonic. It features such special guests as Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox, Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner, and Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom. More