Low are back with the less Tweedy influenced track "So Blue" from their upcoming album, The Invisible Way. Building to a humble intensity with piano and guitar alike, the track demonstrates that they're still creating moving slowcore/indie music and not just slow music. Their album will be out Marc…
If you've been missing Karen O and all her crazy costumed amazing-ness - Yeah Yeah Yeahs have finally released a single from their upcoming album Mosquito on Zane Lowe on BBC 1. "Sacrilege" features a full gospel choir near the end and is sure to satisfy all those lovers of Yeah Yeah Yeahs previous…
A few days after releasing their excellent debut album Amok, Atoms For Peace have revealed the first live dates behind their new LP. In addition to the DJ sets Thom York and Nigel Godrich announced for last week, the whole band has been confirmed for three European festivals in mid-July. According …
Unlike the two-year trickle of press quotes and leaks that preceded their last album, The Strokes have taken a rather quiet approach to publicity behind their forthcoming fifth album, Comedown Machine (out 3/26 through RCA). However, after some coaxing from BBC Radio 1 personality Zane Lowe, bassis…
Farewell, Kevin Ayers. The co-founder of the pastoral prog-rock group The Soft Machine in the late 60s and celebrated solo artist died two days ago in his sleep. Ayers had came out of a 15-year reclusive existence in France in 2007 to release The Unfairground, on which he collaborated with member…
As part of the Less Artists More Condo's series put out by Famous Class, Cass McCombs gives us his sparse and sad, "If You Loved Me Before." LAMC is a series which benefits Ariel Panero Memorial Fund at VH1 Save the Music, which helps put music back in schools. The track is one half of the sixth i…
In 2018, KEXP celebrated the 30th anniversary of local record label Sub Pop with a four-month retrospective, "counting up" every catalog number in their vast discography of over 1,200 releases. Dig into the archives of our catalog coverage, featuring in-depth coverage on the history of their releases.
