NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
Chicago's LIFEGUARD announce debut album | Listen to first single ‘It Will Get Worse’
Chicago’s Lifeguard will release their debut album Ripped and Torn on Matador Records on June 6th. Listen to the blistering d-beat driven first single ‘It Will Get Worse’. The youthful trio of Asher Case (bass, baritone guitar, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, synth), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals) have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop and experimental sounds, and bring them all together in an explosive cacophony.
TUNE-YARDS share new single ‘Heartbreak’ | Check it out!
Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, release new single ‘Heartbreak’, the second offering from their upcoming album, Better Dreaming, out 16 May, showcasing some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music to date. ‘Heartbreak’ is the album’s opening track, building huge chords of Garbus’ vocal harmony around a fat slow-jam beat full of clicks, pops, samples, and dubbed snares. Garbus, soulful as ever, sings of heartbreak as fuel, as a challenge. In the world of Better Dreaming, a lyric like, “Watch me survive another heartbreak” hits like a call to action.
JIM LEGXACY shares 'Stick' from black british music (2025) | Check it out!
Riding high off the universal love for his latest single ‘father’, Jim Legxacy keeps things moving with new track ‘stick’. Dropping alongside another slick video from Rohan Dil shot partly on a Blackberry, ‘stick’ sees Jim at the peak of his powers offering another snapshot of his journey and cements his advancing cultural significance as a young writer and producer. Critical to UK music in 2025, Jim’s prolific output forever tells an important story. Always ahead of the game, his songwriting depicts his own story as a black British creative as much as it speaks for and to many of his peers. Standing proudly but humbly at the helm of a movement; a new generation of storytellers and pioneers carving a path out of the comfort of the underground, always pushing upwards.
MJ LENDERMAN shares video for 'Wristwatch' | Check it out!
MJ Lenderman releases the video for ‘Wristwatch,’ his “brilliant coupling of loneliness and modernity” boasting “one of the catchiest choruses of [2024]” (Under The Radar) from his album, Manning Fireworks, released last fall on ANTI-. Directed by legendary filmmaker Lance Bangs, the video depicts Lenderman driving a pickup truck loaded with basketballs and inflatable pool rafts and repeatedly crashing into an overpass. Members of The Wind show up along the way.
LIDO PIMIENTA shares new track from upcoming album La Belleza |Listen to 'Mango'
It has been five years since the GRAMMY-nominated and Polaris Prize-winning artist Lido Pimienta debuted her breakout album, Miss Colombia, and today she reemerges with La Belleza, a transcendent new album created in conversation with both European classical music and her personal life. An iconoclast who creates music and fine art drawn from her experience as a Caribbean woman from Colombia, Lido Pimienta’s new offering marks a defining moment in her already remarkable career. Alongside the announcement of La Belleza, she has shared the track ‘Mango,’. ‘Mango’ is a poem about being in love, but it is mainly a song about being in nature and carefree. The song is an ode to the mango, but it is also about sensuality, sexuality, and the freedom encapsulated in the simple act that many Caribbean diaspora share, to take a mango directly from the tree.
MAMALARKY share final single from new album | Listen to 'Won't Give Up'
Mamalarky share ‘Won’t Give Up,’ the final single off Hex Key, their one-of-a-kind new album out this Friday on Epitaph Records.
BRANDON shares new single 'Seeing Stars' | Have a listen today!
27-year-old Los Angeles singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brandon Joseph, simply known as Brandon, has shared the third single from his forthcoming debut album, Before You Go, due May 9 via Secretly Canadian. ‘Seeing Stars’ is driven heavily by its ethereal rhythm and bass section, spotlighting a starmaking vocal performance from the rising iconoclast.
New Albums & EPs Out Now
PULP announce first new album in almost 24 years | Listen to anthemic earworm 'Spike Island'
Pulp are happy to announce their new album More, their first in almost twenty-four years which will be released via Rough Trade Records on June 6th, 2025. Pulp return with anthemic earworm ‘Spike Island’. A combination of synths, violin and slide guitar, amplified by producer, James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines DC) who also produced the album. Limited editions of the album will be available on vinyl. Along with a double LP cut at 45 rpm, which will be exclusive to Pulp‘s online shop and Rough Trade Records’ webstore, there will also be four single-disc colour vinyl pressings that have been both handpicked and named by Jarvis Cocker personally.
BON IVER new album SABLE, fABLE out now | Buy it from your favourite record store today!
Bon Iver begins a beautiful new era with the release of SABLE, fABLE. Out now on Jagjaguwar, the project’s first album in six years is both a hard path of healing, and a lush story of love, embodying the clarity, focus and honesty that comes when your eyes are locked with another’s. Through the transformation of these twelve songs – SABLE,’s darkness giving way to fABLE’s radiant light, pain turning to purpose and possibility, stark reflections setting the table for vibrant pop music – there exists a common tale, in which one person becomes two.
LOLA releases debut EP Outside World with 'Spirits' | Get it today!
Tāmaki Makaurau-based producer and vocalist Lola today releases her debut EP, Outside World—a body of work exploring the unseen forces that shape us, capturing the contradictions, acceptance, and internal battles that come with them. Alongside the EP, she unveils its final single, ‘Spirits’, a reflection on death and connection beyond the physical realm.
SCOWL have released new album Are We All Angels | Get it from your favourite record store today!
Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl have released their Dead Oceans debut, Are We All Angels and have shared a video for album focus track ‘Fantasy’. At every turn on Are We All Angels, the band explores ambitious new directions and bends genre norms. Kat Moss makes the most immediately noticeable evolution, dropping some of the gnarly bite of the band’s previous work in favour of a more textured and sometimes delicate approach. She flexes harmonies and melodic sensibilities that might surprise even the most dedicated Scowl fans. Moss cites a wide array of influences outside the realm of hard rock—everything from Billie Eilish to Radiohead, Car Seat Headrest to Julien Baker.
MAGNOLIA PARK invite you into the dystopian world of ‘VAMP’ | Check out focus track 'Shadow Talk'
Orlando band Magnolia Park push the boundaries of genre and storytelling with the release of their highly anticipated concept album VAMP out now via Epitaph Records. The band also shares the chilling, cinematic music video to focus track ‘SHADOW TALK’, “a dystopian anthem about revenge and anger at the world,” they explain. Written in the perspective of their album narrative’s manipulative, power-hungry villain Obsidian, they deliver industrial production, maniacal whispers and bone-crushing breakdowns to convey the chaos and twisted pleasure of watching the world burn.
MAMALARKY album Hex Key out now | Get it from your favourite record store today!
Hex Key is an intricate, endlessly curious album full of sonic left turns and playful genre implosions. On it Mamalarky expertly pastiche sounds, time signatures, and moods together to create delightful, singular songs bursting with feeling. Listen to the album’s previously released singles, ‘#1 Best of All Time,’ ‘Nothing Lasts Forever,’ ‘Feels So Wrong,’ and ‘Anhedonia,’ and you’ll see each song on Hex Key is a world of its own. It’s no surprise the album has garnered praise from The New York Times, Pitchfork, Paste, Stereogum, The Needle Drop, Brooklyn Vegan, Under The Radar and more.
Heads Up!
Frontperson for Dry Cleaning Florence Shaw has a new Substack
Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw has just launched her personal Substack page! Stay tuned for future posts, going up on Wednesdays semi-regularly, and shoot her a follow if you feel so inclined.
Smithsonian Folk Ways Recordings invite Tucker Zimmerman for People's Picks
I’ll start by saying that I’ve never been a fan of folk music. To be sure, I was cast among the folk artists in the ’70s whenever and wherever I played a gig. I played acoustic, therefore I was a folkie. I didn’t really come to understand folk music until I met Derroll Adams and we became friends. Even then—and even more so now—I saw myself and my songs as distant from that tradition. Moving ahead, I browsed through the entire catalog and came up with a few titles that sounded good to me. You will soon see that many are not songs at all.
Tours, Events and Festivals
Interviews & live performances
Julien Baker & TORRES perform 'Dirt' live at St John's Church
Julien Baker & TORRES - perform their latest single 'Dirt' (Live at Banquet Records, St. John’s Church). New album Send A Prayer My Way is out next Week Friday 18 April