When Ringo Starr announced his new T Bone Burnett-assisted country album Look Up, he also revealed plans for an all-starr concert at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium tonight and tomorrow. Today, he has revealed the guests for that shindig and announced it will be a benefit for wildfire recovery in Los Angeles, taped for a TV special to air in the spring ..read more

The Philadelphia band Blacklisted got started in 2003, and they made four albums and a few more miscellaneous records of damaged, intense, lyrically incisive hardcore before breaking up in 2018. Blacklisted got together for a couple for a few reunion shows last year, but there doesn’t appear to be any more Blacklisted activity on the horizon. Instead, a couple of former Blacklisted members have a new band, and they just announced their debut album ..read more

They say that Immersion is the instrumental duo of Wire’s Colin Newman and Minimal Compact’s Malka Spigel. They say that SUSS is the New York ambient country trio who released the album Birds & Beasts last year. They even say that Immersion and SUSS are getting together to release a new collaborative album. I don’t know about any of that, though. Seems pretty SUSS ..read more

In 2021, the Convenience unveiled their debut album Accelerator. The New Orleans post-punk crew returned last year with the songs “Routiner” and “Postcard,” and today they’re announcing their sophomore LP Like Cartoon Vampires. The electrifying lead single and opener “I Got Exactly What I Wanted” is out now ..read more

Loraine James stays busy. The London producer has put out some consistently good electronic music under her own name for years now. But she also has a more ambient-leaning project called Whatever The Weather, which she debuted in 2022. Today, she’s announcing Whatever The Weather II, arriving in March. Like its predecessor, all the album tracks are named after temperatures, and lead single “12°C” is out now ..read more

New Orleans soul-rocker Benjamin Booker is a couple of weeks away from the release of Lower, his first album in seven years, and he’s going in a different direction on this one. After appearing on Armand Hammer’s single “Doves” last year, Booker recorded Lower with the prolific indie-rap producer Kenny Segal. Segal’s abstract boom-bap lends a very different feeling to what was once a real throwback sound ..read more

Wilco and Waxahatchee seem like perfect tourmates, and they’ve been circling each other for a while. In 2023, not long after Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer played drums in the sessions for Waxahatchee’s Tigers Blood, Katie Crutchfield and band performed at Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky festival in Mexico. Spencer continued performing with Waxahatchee on tour throughout 2024. And now, in 2025, the two W bands are heading out on the road together ..read more

It’s a Drive-By Truckers kind of day. Former Trucker Jason Isbell announced his first solo acoustic album this morning, and now Patterson Hood, the Trucker most often behind the wheel, has shared the latest single from his own forthcoming solo album ..read more

The London musician Canty is not Brendan Canty, the drummer from Fugazi and the Messthetics, and he does not appear to have anything to do with the hardcore band Candy. It’s just one more artist with a name that will get confused with other artists. Still, you might want to familiarize yourself with this Canty, whose music does some really cool things without fitting into any particular bucket ..read more

“Abrir Monte,” the opening track of Ela Minus’ sophomore album DIA, comes from childhood. Translating to “open the mountains,” the phrase references the process of cutting through jungle undergrowth to create a new path. Those words stuck with a young Gabriela Jimeno during a youth in Colombia, and they returned to her in her thirties, during the long and searching gestation of DIA. Ela Minus, too, was cutting through murk and mist to reach somewhere else. The phrase and its accompanying music — a curtain-rise instrumental of aqueous synth drones — provide as evocative a reintroduction a ..read more