Music releases are back at full throttle after that Election Eternity, resulting in a week just littered with new material. Familiar Paste favorites like Cloud Nothings, Tierra Whack and Shame wheeled out characteristically compelling singles, while…

The 8 Best Songs of The Week

Making their debut on their new label 4AD, London-based rising post-punk quartet Dry Cleaning have shared “Scratchcard Lanyard,” a single and music video that stand out even on this busy release week.
Like a less dreary descendent of “Fitter…

Dry Cleaning Lose Themselves in the Little Things on "Scratchcard Lanyard"

After his son and frequent collaborator Justin Townes Earle’s tragic passing in August at age 38, veteran singer/songwriter Steve Earle revealed plans to honor “J.T.” by recording an album of his songs. Wednesday brought official word that Steve…

Steve Earle & The Dukes Detail J.T., Share "Harlem River Blues"

A lot can change in the lifespan of a haircut (particularly by pandemic standards), including your relationship status. That’s the unfortunate reality that dad sports manage to have a lot of fun with on their self-produced new single “gf haircut,”…

dad sports Share New Single/Video, “gf haircut”

The contemplative new single from Big Thief guitarist and solo singer/songwriter Buck Meek also doubles as a vocabulary lesson. “Pareidolia” (defined in a press release as “a word about recognizing shapes where none were intended to exist—like…

Buck Meek of Big Thief Shares New Single, "Pareidolia"

Canadian pop superstar Shawn Mendes is a quintessential Gen-Z success story. The 22-year-old sensation rose to prominence by going viral on Vine (R.I.P.), with his six-second covers catching the eye of his now-manager Andrew Gertler and earning him…

Netflix’s In Wonder Dares to Ask, “Is Shawn Mendes Superman?”

Brighton, U.K., rock quartet Porridge Radio have shared an impassioned Leonard Cohen cover that is certain to send you reeling into the weekend. Dana Margolin and company performed “Who by Fire” at St. Giles’ Church, Camberwell, in London, as…

Watch Porridge Radio Cover Leonard Cohen's "Who by Fire"

As Friday the 13ths (Fridays the 13th?) go, this one is actually shaping up quite nicely: Phoebe Bridgers’ much-anticipated “Iris” cover has arrived, the cherry on top of a compellingly eclectic New Music Friday. Our new release radar features…

10 New Albums to Stream Today

Kansas City-based seeker and singer/songwriter Kevin Morby, quietly quite prolific with six solo albums to his name, has long been concerned with heaven, earth and the intersection of the two—life and its limits. “Oh, I am on a ride / Measure the…

Kevin Morby Keeps His Eyes on the Horizon on Sundowner

When he’s not busy making wonderful movies, Barry Jenkins has been known to dabble in music. Back in 2017, he teamed up with Houston’s OG Ron C and DJ Candlestick, aka The Chopstars, for Purple Moonlight, a chopped and screwed remix of the soundtrack…

Barry Jenkins Releases Chopped and Screwed Remix of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

It’s been a long, strange week/year/eternity, with the ongoing presidential election soon to draw to a merciful close, but the show still goes on vis-à-vis new music releases. Fresh singles from “anti-pop star” Baby Queen, Jezabels…

The 6 Best Songs of the Week

Elusive protest-folk legend Tracy Chapman is stepping out of the shadows for one last job, as it were: The singer-songwriter will take the stage on Monday night’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, performing her 1988 hit “Talkin’ Bout a…

Tracy Chapman to Perform "Talkin’ Bout a Revolution" on Tonight's Seth Meyers

The Succession actor is using his first proper foray into music as a means to help underserved communities fight COVID-19.
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Nicholas Braun Talks “Antibodies,” the Song of the Non-Summer

Like a message in a bottle or the light of a long-dead star, music takes time to make its way from its source to its receiver. These things are written and recorded, teased and announced, previewed and anticipated, pressed and packaged, and…

Slow Pulp’s Moveys Celebrates Small Victories

“Montana” was a critical turning point for Slow Pulp. Written for Moveys, their self-produced full-length debut, the track revealed itself to be “super different from any other song we’ve written,” says bassist Alex Leeds, signaling a seismic shift…

Chicago-based shoegazers Slow Pulp are healing from their personal obstacles

When post-Britpop stalwarts Doves released greatest-hits collection The Places Between: The Best Of Doves and announced their indefinite hiatus in 2010, frontman Jimi Goodwin told the Daily Record, “This is wiping the slate clean, we have nothing…

Doves Return Enlightened on The Universal Want

If No Joy’s latest album is a storm, there’s a clear ethos in its eye. In writing and recording the music that would become the band’s first new full-length in five years, frontperson and principal songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz made a conscious…

No Joy’s Motherhood Is Controlled Chaos

The twin masks of tragedy and comedy peering from the cover of Dehd’s third album are a fitting emblem of the band’s new songs themselves. On , the Chicago trio’s second Fire Talk full-length, songwriters Emily Kempf (bass) and Jason Balla (guitar),…

Dehd’s Flower of Devotion Blooms Where It’s Planted

In order to love and understand each other, first we must love and understand ourselves. It’s in that spirit that Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Melbourne, Australia’s hard-touring indie-rock act, travel Sideways to New Italy, offering up a…

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Go Back to Move Forward on Sideways to New Italy

Zoom, for all its privacy and security issues, has rocketed to household-name status in the days of social distancing, becoming the go-to digital meeting hub for personal and professional purposes alike. This new normal presents a problem for those…