Billy Strings never really stops touring, so the fact that he visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday night was no surprise. I was a little bit surprised to see he was there to promote Highway Prayers, an album that came out more than a year ago, but I then I realized my perspective…
Shine is Tobias Jesso Jr.’s second solo album, but, in the decade since his debut, Goon, the Canadian singer-songwriter has become an industry veteran. In notching up co-writing credits for Adele, Dua Lipa, Bon Iver, and Haim, as well as a Grammy-winning turn on Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, Jesso has nonetheless shied from the spotlight….
Olivia Dean has her first Top 5 hit in the US with “Man I Need.” She nabbed her first Grammy nomination, for Best New Artist. She performed on Saturday Night Live and at the ARIA Awards in the past week. Now the rising British pop star has reached the career milestone of publicly feuding with…
Fleet Foxes have shared a new cover of Elliott Smith’s New Moon song “Angel in the Snow.” Robin Pecknold recorded the cover for the soundtrack to the new Christmas comedy film Oh. What. Fun. Listen to the track below. In a press statement, Pecknold said “‘Angel in the Snow’ has always been one of my favorite…
Most of us were well aware that music doesn’t necessarily make for the most secure livelihood long before the pandemic ceased the existence of live shows. Still, the year following Peaer’s 2019 album A Healthy Earth marked some of the first moments in Peter Katz’s adult life where touring and making music weren’t at the…
There are two Pantone colors on the covers of Bon Iver’s SABLE, EP and SABLE, fABLE: Black C and 1625 C. The latter now has an official name: fABLE Salmon. Read more about the Bon Iver partnership on the Pantone website, and take a look at the swatch below. Justin Vernon worked on the art…
UK rocker Sam Fender is an extremely big deal in his homeland. Last month, he won the Mercury Prize for People Watching, the album that he released earlier this year. The day after his big win, Fender released his Elton John duet “Talk To You.” It’s the lead single from his upcoming People Watching deluxe…
Sauna Radio began with a simple yet inventive idea: to create a community radio inside a real sauna. Since its first broadcasts in the summer of 2025, it has become a one-of-a-kind space in Stockholm, Sweden, offering a weekly showcase for the best artists from the Swedish and Scandinavian electronic scene, alongside international guests performing…
Tems is back with new music. The Nigerian artist has released Love Is a Kingdom, a surprise seven-song EP that follows last year’s Born in the Wild. Find it below. Tems produced, composed, and wrote Love Is a Kingdom almost entirely on her own. The EP is released via RCA Records and Since ’93. Tems…
Tim Singer was once the famously intense frontman for Deadguy, the New Jersey hardcore/noise-rock band who broke up when they were just hitting their mid-’90s peak. These days, Singer is once again the famously intense frontman for the reunited Deadguy. Earlier this year, they released Near-Death Travel Services, their first album since the 1995 landmark…
