News
Plus Metric, Joey Dosik, Underworld & Iggy Pop, Still Corners, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 27, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
There was a trend this week for artists to share two songs at once, rather than just one. We saw it with Blood Orange, Trevor Powers, Elvis Costello, Jungle, Cornershop, and Fucked Up (and Pussy Riot released three songs this week). In cases where the artist made our main best songs list we tried to pick just one song, although that proved challenging with our #1. More
Plus The Lemon Twigs, Christine and the Queens, Phantastic Ferniture, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 13, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Hello again. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week for almost five weeks, since June 9. We were on vacation from mid to late June and then when we returned there really weren’t enough compelling songs last week to justify doing Songs of the Week lists, mainly because of the July 4th holiday being smack dab in the middle of the week and so labels mainly avoided sharing new songs. More
Teatime Dub Encounters EP Due Out July 27 via Caroline International
Jul 06, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Iconic British dance duo Underworld (Karl Hyde and Rick Smith) have teamed up with Iggy Pop and are releasing a new collaborative four song EP, Teatime Dub Encounters, on July 27 via Caroline International. In May the collaborative trio shared the seven-minute new song, “Bells & Circles” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Then in June the EP was announced and they shared another song from it, “I’ll See Big.” Now they have shared the EP’s seven-and-a-half-minute long closing track, “Get Your Shirt,” via a mind-bending video for the song. More
Reviews
Jul 26, 2018
By Lily Moayeri
The pairing of Underworld with Iggy Pop, two masterful frontmen plus inventive and limitless musical accompaniment equals exponential charisma overload. Teatime Dub Encounters is this collaboration’s four-song EP, whose titles implies it would be a low-key affair. More