The War on Drugs performed the new song “Ocean of Darkness” on Fallon.
Read More “The War on Drugs Performs on Fallon”Mest – “Upside Down” Video
Mest have shared a video for “Upside Down.”
Read More “Mest – “Upside Down” Video”PVRIS – “Thank You”
PVRIS have shared the new song “Thank You” featuring Raye off the new deluxe edition of Use Me.
Read More “PVRIS – “Thank You””Liner Notes (October 23rd, 2020)
This week’s newsletter has early thoughts on Bruce Springsteen, Seaway, and various other things I listened to, watched, read, and consumed this week. There’s also a playlist of ten songs I enjoyed, and this week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Read More “Liner Notes (October 23rd, 2020)”Review: Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
At this point, you don’t get a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band project without questions about it being the last one. That’s actually been the case for years: when Springsteen and company closed out their 1999-2000 reunion tour at Madison Square Garden with a special extended version of “Blood Brothers,” it felt remarkably final. Nine years later, when The Boss concluded the Working on a Dream tour with a full-circle performance of his debut album, 1973’s Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ, a common topic of conversation in the Springsteen fan community was about whether we’d ever get another E Street tour. The band came back in 2012—sans late sideman Clarence Clemons—for a tour supporting Springsteen’s then-new LP Wrecking Ball, and came back again in 2016 to play 1980’s double-LP masterpiece The River in full night after night. At the end of each tour, the question resurfaced: was this the last dance? The ensuing years only gave credence to the idea that it might be, as Springsteen penned his memoir, spent more than year on Broadway, and circled back to old songs for last year’s solo Western Stars. Each of these projects was wrought with ruminations about fading youth, aging, and mortality. Bruce wrote and spoke extensively about Clemons, whose death in 2011 clearly shook him to the core. On Stars, he closed the album with “Moonlight Motel,” his most aching look back at the past, and at the little glories of youthful freedom and young love that can’t quite ever be replicated or recaptured.
Read More “Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You”Review: The Big Easy – A Long Year
If there’s anything Brooklyn-based band The Big Easy can count on as they release their debut record A Long Year, it’s that there’s probably absolutely nobody with whom that title isn’t gonna resonate. The end of 2020 is in reach now, and while, sure, in some ways it feels like the start of it was only two weeks ago, it also feels like it was a thousand years ago. A pandemic, the ever-growing creep of fascism, however many personal battles we all may have had, and all before whatever is to come on election day; it’s been a long, scary, exhausting and often hopeless year. To state the obvious, we live in a very different world now than we did back on January 1st.
A Long Year was penned in that old world, and it sounds like a time that’s gone now, if hopefully temporarily. This is raucous, beer-soaked, dive bar punk. This is being jammed into a tight space with strangers and feeling the spray of sweat and spit like it’s ocean mist and not a potential death sentence. Remember that? It sounds kinda horrifying now, but also like to just experience that one more time would be some kind of salvation.
Read More “The Big Easy – A Long Year”Mat Kearney – “Grand Canyon”
Mat Kearney has shared the new single “Grand Canyon.”
Read More “Mat Kearney – “Grand Canyon””Sigur Rós Announce ‘Odin’s Raven Magic’ Release
Sigur Rós will release Odin’s Raven Magic on December 4th. Today they’ve shared the lead single “Dvergmál.”
Read More “Sigur Rós Announce ‘Odin’s Raven Magic’ Release”Cartel Share Acoustic “Faster Ride”
Cartel have shared a new acoustic version of “Faster Ride” on Instagram.
Read More “Cartel Share Acoustic “Faster Ride””Bright Eyes – “Miracle of Life”
Bright Eyes has shared the new song “Miracle of Life” featuring Phoebe Bridgers via Bandcamp. All proceeds from the song will go to Planned Parenthood.
Read More “Bright Eyes – “Miracle of Life””Matt Berninger Performs on Colbert
Matt Berninger performed “One More Second” on Colbert.
Read More “Matt Berninger Performs on Colbert”Chelsea Wolfe – “In Heaven”
Chelsea Wolfe has shared a cover of “In Heaven.”
Read More “Chelsea Wolfe – “In Heaven””HAIM Perform on Seth Meyers
HAIM performed “3 AM” on Seth Meyers.
Read More “HAIM Perform on Seth Meyers”Pinkshift – “Rainwalk”
Pinkshift have shared the new song “Rainwalk” on all streaming platforms.
Illenium – “Paper Thin”
Illenium has released the new song “Paper Thin” featuring Tom DeLonge of Angels and Airwaves.
Read More “Illenium – “Paper Thin””