Cindy Lee has announced a short tour of North America. The first date takes place at Chicago’s Empty Bottle, on November 5, and will feature support from Freak Heat Waves and Accessory XL. Their next show, at Toronto’s Massey Hall, will be opened by Blue Light. Cindy Lee will close things out at Montreal’s Rialto…
“E After Next,” the Moby rework that has become a staple of Avalon Emerson’s DJ sets, has been formally released via Dead Oceans. Billed as a collaboration between the two, it is part of Emerson’s dancefloor-oriented single series Perpetual Emotion Machine, which follows her 2023 dream-pop album, Avalon Emerson & the Charm. As Emerson said…
Hannah Frances has announced a new album: Nested in Tangles arrives October 10 via Fire Talk. Frances recorded her follow-up to 2024’s Keeper of the Shepherd alongside producer Kevin Copeland, and she also enlisted Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen for two songs. Watch her self-directed music video for new single “Surviving You” below. “‘Surviving You’ is a…
The first-ever musical theater production of Prince’s Purple Rain has found its lead actors. In his stage debut, Kris Kollins, a singer-songwriter based in Washington, D.C., will star as the Kid, alongside & Juliet star Rachel Webb as Apollonia. The pre-Broadway run is booked at the State Theatre in Minneapolis from October 16 to November…
In 2018, on “Okra,” Tyler, the Creator rapped, “Tell Tim Chalamet to come get at me.” Well, the actor’s finally taken the rapper up on his offer. The first trailer for Marty Supreme—director Josh Safdie’s new A24 film that stars Timothée Chalamet as table tennis star Marty Mauser—is here, and it features Chalamet, Tyler, the…
Neko Case has announced a 2026 tour of North America. The new batch of dates follows a previously announced run taking place this October and November. With the announcement comes a new song, “Winchester Mansion of Sound”—the latest from Case’s new album, Neon Grey Midnight Green. Below, listen to that song and check out her…
The Mountain Goats are reissuing their beloved 2005 album, The Sunset Tree, for its 20th anniversary. The newly remastered edition is out October 17 via 4AD. The album houses “This Year,” long considered the band’s most popular song until “No Children” saw a surge in popularity via TikTok. Revisit the music video for “This Year”…
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band have added a new batch of tour dates behind New Threats From the Soul. In addition to their previously announced trek across Europe and the southern and midwestern United States, the band will perform in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto, Atlanta, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and more cities this December….
In 2023, Black Eyes got back together to play their first shows in 20 years. The Washington, D.C., art-punk band has now announced its first album since 2004. The new album, Hostile Design, is out October 10 via the group’s original label home, Dischord. Below, listen to lead single “Pestilence.” Black Eyes began work on…
Steve Lacy is back with “Nice Shoes,” his first single since 2022. Check out the new song—written and produced by Lacy and released via RCA Records—below. In an interview with Rolling Stone’s Jeff Ihaza, Lacy called his new song “a ‘trailer’ for this new moment in his career.” Elsewhere in the interview, he discussed a…
