Today is our last day in Rennes filming bands during Trans Musicales. We woke up early and headed back to the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts and started setting up for our last two bands of the week.Trans Musicales. We woke up early and headed back to the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts and started setting …
Majical Cloudz just released a 5-track EP called Wait & See. The songs were originally intended for last year's Are You Alone album, but according to frontman Devon Welsh, "[the songs] didn't fit on that album for one reason or another." You can steam both albums together, below, via Spotify. …
After a discography of 11 full-length albums, Seattle's own Car Seat Headrest makes their label debut on Matador Records. KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes, "The album reworks 11 songs from his extensive Bandcamp catalog with help from a new backing band (this also marks the first time he’s recor…
October 31st. It's a day for candy, costumes, and pumpkins, right? Well, if '80s slasher films have taught us anything, it's also a time for Satan to take your soul, or something, right? (Unless you're a virgin teen... isn't that how it works?) While the origins of Halloween have no definitive vers…
Alan Palomo and company, better known as Neon Indian, have shared an addictive, summer dance track called "Annie" - their first new song in two years. The synthpop outfit hasn't released a full length album since 2011's Era Extraña, but they're working on one now. Hopefully we'll have a release da…
In quite possibly the best music news of the day (IMHO), Parquet Courts have unveiled the music video to the track "Sunbathing Animal," starring the inspiration for that song, Frida, beloved cat companion to frontman Andrew Savage. The song is also the title track of the band's forthcoming album, …
Humming computer drawn lines mimic the synth and steady vocals in Liars' video for "The Exact Color of Doubt" off their 2012 album WIXIW. 3-d faces appear distorted and shimmering, floating in a black background throughout the song, while the lyrics confess "I'll always be your friend" - it's a bea…
Chvrches have a lovely roller rink video for their song "Now is Not The Time." Where previous roller rink videos might focus on the retro dress or mad tricks, Chvrches instead lets the lights play while skaters circle like ghosts and their synth pop song sweetly fills the cavernous space. You can …
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole brings a mix of poppy punk, hypnotic trance, and narcotic drifter ballads, with new songs from Meatbodies, The Young Evils, the Shivas and more. 1. The Young Evils - It Happens All the Time 2. Meatbodies - Mountain 3. Dream Police - Hypnotized 4. Hookworms - Radio…
When Kate Tempest released a song titled "Europe Is Lost" in late 2015, she showed a eerily foreshadowing fury that preceded the seemingly unending discord of 2016. On the track's parent album, 2016's Let Them Eat Chaos, Tempest reaffirms her status as a singular figure that's both thril…
Those Pretty Wrongs frontman Jody Stephens was a key member of the seminal Memphis band Big Star, but while he was behind the drum kit in that outfit, he's front and center on his new project with Luther Russell (The Freewheelers). In this acoustic performance, Stephens and Russell's so…
On the show this time, it’s the soul-filling songs of Choctaw Nation storyteller Samantha Crain.
In our seventh episode, Franco-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux shares her the songs that informed her as a South American woman, artist, multiculturalist, and revolutionary.
Seattle soul and funk act takes on 21st century dread with a defiant, hopeful message.
The Warp-signee offers his second single of the year, following the previous release "Noid."
The former The Smiths guitarist shares b-side from the Call The Comet sessions.
"Treasure" is another gorgeous piano ballad from the British singer
The song is included on the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse soundtrack
The song comes with a video comprised of footage from the duo's recent show at London's Alexandra Palace.
The song originally appeared on 1999's When the Pawn...
