This Week in Posivibes: Here
We were excited about Teenage Fanclub’s upcoming tenth album back when it was just a fact on a calendar, and now the reality is, thankfully, really beautiful. Here is being called “their warmest…
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Twin Peaks Remastered
As a prelude to the upcoming third season, the utterly perfect soundtrack to the original Twin Peaks has been remastered and is now out on vinyl from Death Waltz Recordings. The reissue features liner notes…
Billy Corgan the Tease
Billy Corgan has really been stirring the pot of Smashing Pumpkins reunion rumors, to the great emotional distress of 90s nostalgists everywhere. A recent video showcased an especially blatant tease: Well last…
Dave Grohl’s Mom Said So
Virginia Hanlon Grohl is writing a book about rockstar parenting due for release in April 2017 from Seal Press. The material will be drawn from her experience raising Dave Grohl, as…
Cool Ways to Leave the White House
He might not be ending US intervention in the Middle East, but he’s organizing a music festival at the White House: President Obama is impressing many with his decision to work…
Song of the Day: “One Mo’ Gin”
In the pocket. It’s the only way to describe the slithery pulse of the bass and rhythm section in D’Angelo’s slow ballad “One Mo’ Gin,” off his explosive soul album…
Albums of Our Lives: Modest Mouse’s The Lonesome Crowded West
How Isaac Brock sings it, it’s nearly cheerful, almost an anthem: I’m trying / I’m trying to / drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away.
This Week in Posivibes: Ultimate Painting
James Hoare (of Veronica Falls) and Jack Cooper (of Mazes) are releasing their third LP under the name Ultimate Painting on September 30 on Trouble in Mind Records. Dusk is an “autumnal opus…[of] gentle…
Remastering My Bloody Valentine
Word is Kevin Shields has been busy remastering My Bloody Valentine’s back catalog, and that the work will be available on vinyl soon via the band’s longstanding label, Creation Records. The releases will…
FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival
Although the performance was over a month ago, a gorgeous video of FKA twigs’s set at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago was recently released online. The artist has not performed much beyond…
Sisqo Called, and He Has Answers
After years of mystery and confusion, Sisqo has finally cleared up the meaning of his lyrics in 1999’s “Thong Song.”
Song of the Day: “Other People”
In 2004, the indie group known as Beach House considered calling itself “Wisteria.” But once they “stopped trying,” according to guitarist Alex Scally, their ultimate name choice floated to the top, and…