San Luis Obispo’s premier music, arts, and camping festival, Shabang, is back for another unforgettable experience on May 2nd and 3rd at the scenic Dairy Creek Golf Course. Following last year’s monumental tenth-anniversary celebration, Shabang 2025 promises an even bigger, more immersive event featuring four stages, a diverse lineup of indie, alternative, and electronic artists,…
Fiona Apple is one of several featured artists on the Waterboys’ new album, and her contribution to the record is out today. After covering the band’s calling-card anthem, “The Whole of the Moon,” back in 2019, Apple gets her hands on a tailor-made composition by the band’s frontperson, Mike Scott, in “Letter From an Unknown…
Japanese Breakfast has shared a video for “Picture Window,” a release-day single from For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women). Michelle Zauner directed the video, shooting a shadowy romantic short on the streets of Seoul with actors Kim Gyuri and Omega Sapien. Sapien’s “energy and charm were so readily apparent,” Zauner elaborated in a statement, and…
Marika Hackman is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her debut album, We Slept at Last, by enlisting Laura Marling to duet on a new version of “Skin” from the LP. Hackman also paid a visit to Abbey Road Studios to perform the song, as part of Abbey Road’s annual collaboration with Pitchfork Music Festival London….
Shanti Celeste is back with a new album. The Bristol-based, Chilean DJ and producer will release Romance on May 16, via Peach Discs and Method 808. The album breaks new ground for Celeste, who sings lead across the record for the first time. Listen to “Thinking About You,” written in tribute to a late friend,…
WU LYF are back. A month after frontperson Ellery James Roberts dissolved his Lost Under Heaven project, the band that propelled him to indie-rock renown has announced three shows in its native Manchester, England, and festival dates in France and Belgium. No concrete details have been announced, but fans on Reddit report receiving postcards that…
New Jersey hardcore band Gel are breaking up. Following guitarist Anthony Webster’s absence at several shows the past few months, the remaining members of Gel have posted a statement on social media saying they’re “no longer a band.” Gel go on to cite numerous “heinous” actions that Webster allegedly took that have harmed the band…
Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett have announced a tour that, for the most part, takes place this summer. The Texas musicians’ Crooner & the Cowboy Tour begins in June at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, and is slated to wrap up on September 23 at the Moody Center, in Austin, Texas. Opening for Bridges and Crockett…
Jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid has announced a new album that she made with the multidisciplinary artist and musician Naima Nefertari. The album, Journey to Nabta Playa, is out on May 2 via Spiritmuse. Leading the full-length is the new song “Procession of the Equinox.” Hear it below. Dawid and Nefertari’s new album…
Last month, Smerz came back with the single “A Thousand Lies.” Now, the Norwegian art-pop duo has shared the details of a forthcoming album. Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt’s new album, Big City Life, is out May 23 via Escho. It marks their first traditional studio album since their 2021 debut, Believer. “Some of the…
