There will be a new Spinal Tap album to go with the release of the long-awaited movie Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. The new album, also called The End Continues, is out September 12 via Interscope. Featured on the full-length are some guests who appear in the film: Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood,…
Sound design studio Slate + Ash has released a new virtual guitar based on sounds designed by avant-garde guitarists including Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi, and David Torn. Each guitarist contributed fragmentary sounds—loops, textures, resonances, and mechanical failures—that Slate + Ash used its playback engine to deconstruct and turn into a number of recursive…
Yves Tumor and Bar Italia’s Nina Cristante have teamed up for their first collaborative single. It’s called “We Dont Count,” and it arrives with a DIY black-and-white video the musicians shot and edited, with additional editing from Simon Mercer. Check it out below. “We Dont Count” marks Tumor’s first official release since their 2023 album…
The Antlers have announced their first new album in four years: Blight arrives October 10 via Transgressive. The band is sharing lead single “Carnage” today, too, and it comes with a lyric video that you can check out below. Discussing the backstory of the new song, the Antlers frontman Peter Silberman said, “‘Carnage’ is a…
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Idles have shared “Rabbit Run,” a new song that they made for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime caper Caught Stealing. It’s one of four new tracks that the British band recorded for the film’s soundtrack. Listen to “Rabbit Run” below. Rob Simonsen composed the score for Caught Stealing, and Idles brought it to life in the…
Silvana Estrada returned this year with the new songs “Como un Pájaro” and “Lila Alelí.” She’s now announced that those songs will be on a new album called Vendrán Suaves Lluvias. The Mexican singer-songwriter’s follow-up to 2022’s Marchita is out October 17 via Glassnote. Below, listen to another new song from the album, “Dime.” “Vendrán…
Nourished by Time has shared a video for “Baby Baby,” the new single from his incoming album The Passionate Ones. Check it out below. Nourished by Time’s Marcus Brown directed the video himself, setting his acerbic assessment of the American Dream at the New Jersey entertainment complex of the same name. “If you can bomb…
Thundercat has announced a North American tour set to take place this autumn. After wrapping up a leg in South America this August, the singer-bassist will take a pause before getting back on the road, beginning on October 15 in in Atlanta. From there, he performs in Miami, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, and a few more…
Roughly once a week, Nick Cave blogs about music, religion, grief, and the infernal state of world affairs through the medium of fan correspondence in his Red Hand Files newsletter. His meatier responses become news stories, and few have traveled so far, or with such fervor, as his 2023 diatribes eviscerating ChatGPT. First, that January,…
