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  • This Week in Posivibes: Cate Le Bon’s Rock Pool

    Cate Le Bon has released the follow-up to last year’s wonderfully odd Crab Day. In describing the new album, out via Drag City, Cate Le Bon has said: “Rock Pool is the killed darlings from the Crab Day sessions brought back to life on a…

  • A Necessary Evil

    Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) and Colm Ó Cíosóig (My Bloody Valentine) spoke to Consequence of Sound about their third album together as Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, detailing how they found one of the album’s key collaborators walking through the Berkeley…

  • This Week in Posivibes: Teenage Fanclub

    There are groups you love as a teenager, and whose music becomes a memory, something entwined in your life, but no more directly relevant to it than old episodes of Grange Hill or drinking cider in churchyards. There are records…

  • Upcoming Album from Dinosaur Jr.

    Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, Dinosaur Jr.’s eleventh album, is out August 5 from Jagjaguwar. In the meantime the album’s second track has been released, and it’s grade-A stuff according to Henry Rollins (although that’s not a huge surprise). Listen to “Goin Down” and…

  • Descendents Announce New Album

    Hypercaffium Spazzinate will be the first Descendents record in over a decade, Consequence of Sound reports. The full record will be out on July 29th via Epitaph. In the meantime, the band has released the track “Victim of Me,” which you can listen to after…

  • Mourn’s Ha, Ha, He

    Last year, Barcelona’s Mourn received a lot of attention for reminding everyone why teens playing loud and well just plain works. Their second record Ha, Ha, He is generating similar excitement, thanks to the handful of songs that have been released thus far. The full…

  • This Week in Posivibes: Cate Le Bon

    The Welsh singer’s fourth album, Crab Day, has a beautifully uncomfortable, displaced sound, as if each song’s eye were following just to the right of its own focus. Pitchfork says of the album: Le Bon establishes a strange, almost Dadaist lyrical scheme…

  • This Week in Posivibes: Kevin Morby

    Kevin Morby has released a preview of his third solo album, Singing Saw, which is slated for release this April via Dead Oceans. The teaser’s video features artwork by Robbie Simon set to a darker version of the folk-heavy sound…

  • This Week in Posivibes: Bowie’s Blackstar

    Before news hit about David Bowie’s passing, we had planned a post about the posivibes his most recent album, Blackstar, had received from the media. Although there is so much more to talk about in the wake of his death,…

  • This Week in Posivibes: Wild Nothing

    Jack Tatum has announced that the next Wild Nothing album, Life of Pause, will be coming out February 19th. The artist has released two tracks thus far, “To Know You” and “TV Queen,” both available to stream via the video…

  • This Week in Posivibes: The Chills

    New Zealand’s The Chills just released their first album since 1996, and it’s brilliant. Coming up alongside The Clean and The Bats, The Chills are the kind of band that is incredible, important, and not as well-known as they deserve to be.…

  • The (Limited) Info on Bowie’s Next Album

    The iconic artist cleared up the rumors about his upcoming record by specifying that it will not be related to any sound clips that were circulating this weekend, will not part of his theater production Lazarus, and adding little else. Bowie confirmed…