Jun 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Johnny Jewel

Chromatics have shared a video for a new song, “Blue Girl,” the latest single from their long delayed album, Dear Tommy, which is promised for release this fall on Italians Do It Better (exact release date TBA). The band self-directed the stylish and atmospheric video. The song has also been released to Spotify and Apple Music with four alternate versions of the track, including an instrumental version and one without drums.

Jun 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts The Essex Green

Indie-pop trio The Essex Green (Sasha Bell, Jeff Baron, and Christopher Ziter) haven’t released an album in 12 years, since 2006’s Cannibal Sea, but they are releasing a new album, Hardly Electronic, on June 29 via Merge.

Jun 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire have shared a strange video for “Chemistry.” It features a dog waiter (well, a man with a computer-generated dog head) who falls in love with a cat (a woman in a white dress with a computer-generated cat head) in a restaurant full of sharks. Eventually they are fighting a robot shark in space and the whole thing climaxes in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

Jun 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Spiritualized

Earlier this morning Spiritualized (aka Jason Pierce and backing band) announced a new album, And Nothing Hurt, and shared two songs from it, “I’m Your Man” and “A Perfect Miracle.” Now they have shared a video for “I’m Your Man.” Juliette Larthe directed the video, which features Pierce (aka J. Spaceman) in his signature vintage spacesuit, as he drives around the desert in an old car and walks around at sunset.

Jun 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Spiritualized

Spiritualized (aka Jason Pierce and backing band) have announced a new album, And Nothing Hurt, and shared two songs from it, “I’m Your Man” and “A Perfect Miracle.” And Nothing Hurt is due out September 7 via Fat Possum and Bella Union.

Jun 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Interpol

Interpol (Daniel Kessler, Paul Banks, and Sam Fogarino) are releasing a new album, Marauder, on August 24 via Matador. Previously they shared its first single, “The Rover” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). As promised when the album was announced on Thursday, last night the band stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “The Rover.”

Jun 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Phantastic Ferniture

This was a strong week for new tracks, so much so that we almost expanded this week’s Songs of the Week list to a Top 13. Instead we decided to include three honorable mentions. The full list includes two legendary artists who we will soon be getting previously unreleased posthumous albums from.

Jun 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts The Charlatans

Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans released a new album, Different Days, last year via BMG. Now they have shared a video for a new song, “Standing Alone.” Frontman Tim Burgess says the track is “a song of defiance, apology, and smashed phones.”

Jun 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts John Coltrane

Legendary jazz label Impulse! have announced that they are releasing a previously unreleased John Coltrane album featuring original, never-before-heard compositions recorded in 1963. The album is entitled Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album and is due out June 29.