Slowdive

Slowdive‘s fifth album is titled ‘everything is alive‘ and will be out September 1 via Dead Oceans.

”It’s no secret that I am a long time Drab Majesty fan,“ says Slowdive‘s Rachel Goswell, ”so when Deb asked me some years ago now if I would be interested in collaborating it was an immediate yes.“

Plus: The Mars Volta, Pearl Jam, Beabadoobee, Joy Oladokun, Anthrax, Rodney Crowell, and more tour and festival news.

Slowdive‘s first new album since their great 2017 comeback is in the can, and they’ll be playing their first shows of the year this month in Australia.

Welsh festival Green Man goes down August 17-20 in Brecon Beacon,s and the lineup also includes Young Fathers, Confidence Man, Goat, The Comet is Coming, Lankum, Snail Mail, Squid, The Delgados, Horace Andy, more

Fifty things to look forward to this year, including Everything But the Girl, Protomartyr, Róisín Murphy, Yo La Tengo, Drop Nineteens, Orbital, Mozart Estate, Robert Forster, Sparks, US Girls, and more.

Here are 100 albums we can’t wait to hear in 2023, including Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Caroline Polachek, M83, Ride, Slowdive, ANOHNI, Wednesday, Youth Lagoon, blink-182, awakebutstillinbed, Danny Brown, Death Grips, and more…

Having originally published a best albums of the 1990s list in 2003, Pitchfork just put up a new version, and there are some changes…

The list covers everything from Wilson Phillips to Celine Dion to blink-182 to Korn to Cher to Gin Blossoms to Jawbox to Fugazi.

From R.E.M. to MGMT to Sheryl Crow to The Chicks to Goo Goo Dolls to The Cars, here are 10 sad and awesome covers by Soccer Mommy…