Jan 13, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2023. After a quiet period last week, this week was roaring with album announcements and new songs. We settled on a Top 11 this week. More

Jan 12, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) has shared a new song, “Carpenter.” Rostam produced the song. More

Oct 26, 2021 By Joey Arnone

SASAMI (aka Los Angeles-based musician Sasami Ashworth) has announced the release of a new album titled Squeeze. It will be out on February 25 via Domino. Ashworth has also shared videos for two new singles: “The Greatest” and “Skin a Rat,” and has announced a headlining U.S. tour for 2022. Jennifer Juniper Stratford directed the video for “The Greatest” and Andrew Thomas Huang (FKA twigs, Björk) both directed the “Skin a Rat” visual and shot the album’s cover art. More

Apr 01, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Sharon Van Etten has shared a cover of “Don’t Do It,” originally featured on her 2010 Epic album, performed by Courtney Barnett and featuring Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko). The new cover is the fifth song release from her upcoming anniversary album, epic Ten, which will be out on April 16 via Ba Da Bing. More

Jan 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) has teamed up with Courtney Barnett to cover Karen Dalton’s version of “Reason to Believe” (the very original 1965 version of the song was by Tim Hardin). Vagabon has also announced a livestream concert. More

Jan 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) has shared a new song, “The Wild.” It is taken from the soundtrack to the horror film The Turning, which is a more modern version of Henry James’ 1898 horror novella The Turn of the Screw. More

Jan 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) released a new self-titled album last October via Nonesuch. Now she has announced some new North American tour dates for this spring. More

Dec 17, 2019 By Mark Moody

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) has just recently passed the mark of having lived in the U.S. as long as in her native Cameroon. In the brief 13 years that have passed since her immigration to America, Tamko has taught herself guitar, graduated college, and in 2017 released her first album, the critically acclaimed Infinite Worlds. More

Oct 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was a pretty light week, in terms of new songs this week. Hence we only have a Top 8. More

Oct 14, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) is releasing a new self-titled album this Friday (October 18) via Nonesuch. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Every Woman,” via a video for the track. More

Sep 16, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) is releasing a new self-titled album on October 18 via Nonesuch. Now she has shared a stylish video for the previously shared single “Water Me Down” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). More

Aug 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. Usually we have a Top 10, but last week it was a Top 13 and the week before it was a Top 12. This week, however, the pickings were slimmer and the best we could muster was a Top 9. More

Aug 27, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) is releasing a new self-titled album on October 18 via Nonesuch. Now she has shared another song from it, “Water Me Down.” More

Jun 14, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We couldn’t quite limit it to a Top 10 this week, there were enough strong new tracks to stretch it to a Top 11. There were several notable albums announced this week, which meant a lot of strong new singles to choose from. More

Jun 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) has announced a new album, All the Women in Me, and shared its first single, “Flood Hands.” More

May 14, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Angel Olsen has announced some fall North American tour dates that will be her first full band tour since 2017. They include shows across the country in October, November, and December. Vagabon will support most dates. More

Feb 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. Previously she shared its first single, “Nameless, Faceless,” via a video for the song. (It was our #1 Song of the Week.) Now she has announced some new North American tour dates to go down this July. More