Real Estate have announced a new rarities album. Out this Friday, May 2, The Wee Small Hours will feature B-sides, covers, and previously unreleased songs from the New Jersey band’s 14-year tenure with Domino. It includes also Real Estate’s renditions of Television’s “Days,” the Nerves’ “Paper Dolls,” and the Strokes’ “Barely Legal.” See the new…
Bruce Springsteen has released the first song ever from his long-ago shelved soundtrack to Faithless, a film that was never made. Springsteen recorded much of the album in the months after his 2005 Devils & Dust tour concluded. It is one of seven albums to be unvaulted for his new collection Tracks II: The Lost…
The experimental guitarist Nathan Salsburg has announced a new album, Ipsa Corpora, that comes out on June 20 via No Quarter. It’s his first fully acoustic solo album since 2018’s Third. See the album cover below. Ipsa Corpora consists of one 40-minute composition. Salsburg recorded the album in December 2024 with James Elkington at Chicago’s…
Bambii, the Toronto DJ and producer, has announced her new EP; Infinity Club II is out June 20 via Because Music. The 12-track release is led by the new song “Mirror” featuring Jessy Lanza and Yaeji, which also comes with a music video. Directed by Bambii herself, that visual flashes through close-up shots of bird…
Indigo De Souza has announced a new album: Precipice arrives July 25, and it’ll be her first project for Loma Vista Recordings. Today, De Souza has shared the LP’s lead single, “Heartthrob,” along with a music video directed by Neta Ben Ezra. In the video, De Souza jumps around a bouncy castle and making mischief…
Kassie Krut have announced an expanded edition of their 2024 debut EP, Kassie Krut. It’s out June 6 via Fire Talk. Five of the six songs from the EP are getting the remix treatment, with contributing artists including Kero Kero Bonito’s JLB, Coido, DJ Travella, and Container. The experimental art-rock band has shared one of…
Lorde has announced a new album. Her fourth studio album is titled Virgin, and it arrives on June 27 via Republic. See the new album’s cover below. The announcement of Virgin follows last week’s release of the comeback single “What Was That.” Lorde made the song with Jim-E Stack, Daniel Nigro, and others. It is…
Adam Wiltzie has announced a reissue of Stars of the Lid’s first album, Music for Nitrous Oxide, to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The new edition is out on July 25 via Wiltzie’s Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing. Below, see a newly released video for an edited version of the album’s “Adamord.” The sound engineer Francesco Donadello did…
Turnstile have shared a double music video for two new songs from Never Enough, “Seein’ Stars” and “Birds,” the first of which features vocals by Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Blood Orange’s Devonté Hynes. Watch the new video below. Singer Brendan Yates and guitarist Pat McCrory directed the new Turnstile video. The visual opens on a…
Solo virtuosity shone in the latest batch of new releases that we reviewed. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet delivers an exciting set of works by Khachaturian, while Jan Lisiecki combines Chopin’s Preludes with those of other composers. Violinist Liza Ferschtman (pictured) shines in Brahms’ concerto and a fantasy by Suk, while James Ehnes gives thoroughly satisfying readings…
