Petite Noir’s New Album Now Streaming
Petite Noir has dubbed his music “noirwave,” and La Vie Est Belle, his upcoming new album from Domino, has been described as a borrowing the sound of Tears for Fears…
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This Week in Posivibes: Unwound
Numero Group is re-releasing the Olympia trio’s final two albums in a 4-LP box set. Empire combines the band’s incredible final album, Leaves Turn Inside You (2001), alongside Challenge for…
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Mac DeMarco’s “Signature” Guitar
It was kind of nice to have something no one else had, something you couldn’t just pick up at any old big box store.
Highway 61 Revisited Turns Fifty
Bob Dylan’s jump to electric turned fifty this past Sunday, and to celebrate the milestone Consequence of Sound interviewed two of the session musicians who worked on recording the album. One of…
Morrissey Is Miserable for Australian Cats
Morrissey has spoken out against Australia’s plan to cull two million feral cats by 2020, calling the animals “two million smaller versions of Cecil the lion,” reports the Guardian. According to…
Albums of Our Lives: The National’s High Violet
I wanted to feel sheltered under the cathedral of his voice, to feel, always, the way his songs made me feel.
Song of the Day: “The Less I Know The Better”
Australian musician Kevin Parker’s band, Tame Impala, is known for blending musical influences like psychedelia and lo-fi, but Parker’s proficiency as a songwriter only adds to his resume. On “The Less…
Janelle Monae Petitions for Protest Songs
Following her release of “Hell You Talmbout,” which protests the death of black Americans killed by police and vigilantes and has been praised widely for its visceral power, Janelle Monae…
This Week in Posivibes: Destroy All Art
This compilation of ’90s DIY punk put out by Rock N’ Roll Parasite is the kind of well-curated survey of a time that we hope all comps will be. The bands…
An Ode to Tower Records
Following a successful debut at SXSW, Colin Hanks’s documentary on the rise and fall of America’s largest record store, All Things Must Pass, has now released its trailer online. The…
Today’s Record Release Highlights
This week’s close is seeing releases from Beach House (Sub Pop), Destroyer (Merge), Yo La Tengo (Matador), The Weeknd (Republic), Cold Showers (Dais), Andra Day (Warner), and Tamaryn (Mexican Summer).…
Grace Jones and Yo La Tengo
No supergroup rumors here (sadly), but both delivered performances this week that you may have missed. First, Grace Jones killed it at the Afropunk festival, topless, in full body paint, and…