Aug 06, 2018

Nightshop is the solo project of the former drummer for Kevin Morby and The Babies, Justin Sullivan. Morby can’t say enough good things about him and listening to his first couple of singles you can hear why. Sullivan released the second single from his forthcoming debut album In The Break, out September 14 on Woodsist / Mare records, today. “The Ship Has Sailed” follows the previously released single “The One I Love,” and provides a dose of mellow in the same vein as Morby. If you’re cooking dinner, throw it on.

Aug 02, 2018

Animal Collective are up to their old tricks of stretching boundaries. Their Audiovisual album Tangering Reef in collaboration with Coral Morphologic, an art-science duo formed by marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay, is set for release on the 17th. It will commemorate the 2018 International Year of the Reef. Today they share another segment of what to expect. The sound seems to be a retun to their more amorphous, abstract beginnings and echoes Avey Tare’s 2017 solo album Eucalyptus, which was also inspired, in part, by the ocean. Absorb…

Aug 01, 2018

It’s fair to say that Death Cab for Cutie post Chris Walla has been…mmmmm..questionable. The Pacific Northwest vets’ new album Thank You For Today is out on the 17th and they just shared the third single “Autumn Love”. It’s encouraging. Check it out.

Jul 27, 2018

This is mindblowing. Austin, TX synth band S U R V I V E, two of whom - Michael Stein & Kyle Dixon - crafted the wondrous score for Stranger Things, just released the digital version of an album they had released as an LP on record store day this year. Titled RR7400 : LA041717, it’s a studio recording of nine songs they had performed in L.A last April. On their Bandcamp page, it calls this an “homage to the Peel Sessions” remembering the late, great DJ John Peel and his show on BBC Radio 1. Check out the track just released: “Omniverse”.

Jul 26, 2018

Toronto’s Metric is coming back ‘round with a new album in September, following 2015’s Pagans in Vegas. The band’s seventh album is currently nameless but two singles have been released. “Dressed to Suppress is the second single following “Dark Saturday” and the video was just shared. Directed by Justin Broadbent, the stark B&W footage puts you smack in the vortex of stage energies between the performers and is quite effective in doing so. Take a look and feel.

Jul 25, 2018

Texas vocalist and songwriter Molly Burch is set to release the follow up to last year’s Please Be Mine, continuing the feel of 60’s throwback pop on First Flower, out October 5 via Captured Tracks. “Wild” is the first single. It’s light on its feet and swoops in like a breath of fresh air. Thanks Molly! Check it out below.

Jul 24, 2018

Until The Ribbon Breaks is the British duo of Pete Lawrie Winfield and Elliot Wall described as “Pete’s mind, enveloped in widescreen electronica, experimental rock, and luscious orchestrations”. Their acclaimed self-titled sophomore album was released in February and now Under the Radar has the premiere of the video for “Use Me Up”, a morphing mash-up of the many visages of star Hollywood actresses to the track’s melting electro-groove.

The imagery strikes of the strong cinematic and visual influence that has always been linked to the music. “ We’re so used to being subjected to Hollywood’s interpretation of love that we don’t know what the sensation is anymore,” they reveal. “It seems so strange to hear this again, after so long. As if an entirely different person felt like this, went through this. I know because I was there, that it is about nihilism and self-sabotage, love as weaponry and not by choice. I feel sorry for this person, I hope they figure it out…..”

The new album shines brightly, emerging through the clouds of inner turmoil that threatened to obscure it. Stream it below and soak it up.