BBCC Announce Conceptual New Album ‘King Michael II,’ Share 16mm Video for ‘Campfire’
French art-rockers BBCC are leaning all the way into high-concept fantasy. Today the band released 'Campfire,' the lead single from their next album, 'King Michael II and the...
Bhopal’s Flowers Unveils ‘Miroir Miroir’ from Upcoming Album ‘Poivre Rose’
Bhopal’s Flowers has always occupied a strange, beautiful middle ground between 60s pop and Indian classical tradition. Their new single, 'Miroir Miroir,' feels like the peak of that...
Mavis Guitar Unveils ‘With Your Boots On’ taken from ‘Pedal Steel Trio’
Kentucky pedal steel player Travis Talbert spends a massive chunk of his time touring and recording with roots stalwarts like Jeremy Pinnell and Arlo McKinley, or lending his...
Sir Richard Bishop on Sun City Girls, Improvisation and ‘Hillbilly Ragas’ Interview
Sir Richard Bishop has spent decades sounding like a man in dialogue with some older, stranger America, one that lives in backwoods folklore, half-forgotten traditions, battered open tunings...
Alex Radus — ‘Where Liberty Lives’
Alex Radus is a singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania. Hailed as a “Skilled Fretman” and “Versatile Crooner,” but self-described as a “Purveyor of genre whiplash,” Radus’s art is both musically...
Pastel Blank Personifies the Habit on ‘Sweet Nic’ from Debut LP ‘Unmade in Minutes’
Montreal’s Pastel Blank is carving out a niche where the jittery spirit of 70s art-rock meets a very modern, very caffeinated brand of DIY. After recently joining the...
The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Mark Crozer Announces New Album ‘Homecoming,’ Shares ‘You and Me on the Astral Plane’
Mark Crozer has spent nearly two decades as a cornerstone of The Jesus and Mary Chain, but his latest turn feels like a total reset. After nearly hanging...
Atsuko Chiba Shares ‘Torn’ from Their Upcoming Self-Titled Album
It is rare to see a band willingly strip away the very thing that made them famous. For Montreal’s Atsuko Chiba, that meant putting aside the aggressive, distorted...
The Dandy Warhols Detail New Covers Album ‘Pin Ups’ and Share a Reverb-Soaked ‘Goo Goo Muck’
The Dandy Warhols have always been better at being a "band’s band" than the industry really knew what to do with. They have spent three decades oscillating between...
Pretty: ‘Burning Money’ and the Dread of ‘Where You’ll Be When the World Is Gone’
Toronto’s Pretty recently released their new single, 'Burning Money,' and it arrives as the first glimpse into their second album, 'Where You’ll Be When the World Is Gone,'...