Bill Fay, the cult British singer-songwriter who experienced a late-in-life career revival, has died, according to a statement from his label, Dead Oceans. “Bill was a gentle man and a gentleman, wise beyond our times,” it reads. “He was a private person with the biggest of hearts, who wrote immensely moving, meaningful songs that will…
Mandy, Indiana producer and guitarist Scott Fair has shared the debut single from a new project called Set Dressing. Listen to “Class Valedictorian” below. Set Dressing is signed to Fire Talk, the label behind Mandy, Indiana’s 2023 debut, I’ve Seen a Way. The project is framed, in a press release, as an anonymous extension of…
Big Thief drummer and producer James Krivchenia is releasing a new experimental solo album. The musician worked on Performing Belief with electric bassist Sam Wilkes and double bassist and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams. Below, listen to Krivchenia’s new song with Wilkes, “Probably Wizards.” Performing Belief is out May 2 via Planet Mu. The new album incorporates…
Kim Deal has enlisted Richard Ayoade to direct and star in the video for Nobody Loves You More track “Big Ben Beat.” The recursive short film also features looped and fragmented scenes involving Deal, Savages’ Fay Milton, and Ayoade’s own family. Watch it go down below. Ayoade, who directed the Breeders’ “Spacewoman,” back in 2018,…
Hurray for the Riff Raff has announced a tour of North America, extending a run of dates that starts this month with Alynda Segarra and the band’s support dates with Bright Eyes. The new shows kick off in May with support from Merce Lemon, before a final stint in the summer. With the news comes…
In December, Vampire Weekend wrapped up the first part of their tour in support of Only God Was Above Us. Now, they’ve announced part two. After festival performances in May, at Just Like Heaven and Boston Calling, the band will play North American concerts in the spring, before heading to Europe for more festival dates….
Connecticut emo band Anxious throw their whole bodies into their songs, even when they opt for more melodic hooks. On their sophomore album, Bambi, they return not knock-kneed and nervous, but confident and intentional, bridging their post-hardcore, emo, and pop-punk influences. Opener “Never Said” sets the stage with delicate guitar picking and singer Grady Allen’s…
MJ Lenderman is the subject of a new profile in GQ. And, in the article, written by longtime Pitchfork contributor Grayson Haver Currin, it’s revealed that the Asheville, North Carolina, indie-rocker will no longer tour with Wednesday. He will, however, continue to make recorded music with the band. (Representatives for Wednesday and Lenderman confirmed the…
Jerry Butler, the decorated soul singer who became a senior politician in his adopted home state of Illinois, died at his Chicago home on February 20, the Chicago Sun-Times reports, citing a family friend. No cause of death was given, but Butler had been living with Parkinson’s disease. He was 85 years old. Born in…
Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has announced a new album with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Out March 21, via ECM, Defiant Life is the artists’ second collaborative record, following 2016’s A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. Today, Iyer and Smith have also shared the album’s closing song, “Procession: Defiant Life.” Listen to it below. “Our…
