Penelope Isles‘ Lily and Jack Wolter tell us about the music that inspired their great new album ‘Which Way to Happy,‘ including The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, Wilco and more.
Plus: Efterklang cover Piano Magic, Spencer. covers Grimes, and Bing and Ruth cover the Pixies. 4AD‘s 40th anniversary album ‘Bills & Aches & Blues‘ is out April 2.
‘Bills & Aches & Blues‘ features 18 artists from 4AD's current roster covering songs from throughout the label's 40 years, including Jenny Hval, Aldous Harding, US Girls, Bradford Cox, Efterklang, and more.
This will be the first time the Athens, GA post-punk band's first two albums will be available on vinyl in over 30 years. The box set includes lost studio sessions, and other unreleased material.
Matt Berninger's self-isolation playlist is now eight hours long, with additions from The Feelies, The Pastels, boygenius, Juvenlie, Ramones, DEVO, Maxo Kream, Dinosaur Jr., Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, New Order, Hayley Heynderickx, Earl Sweatshirt, Cher, Willie Nelson, Beastie Boys, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, John Prine, Sharon Van Etten, Sufjan Stevens, Mitski, Built to Spill, Cat Power, Dolly Parton, Deerhunter, Minutemen, Tom Waits, R.E.M., Arab Strap, The Afghan Whigs, Wilco, Camera Obscura, ANOHNI, Sade, and many more.
Today's picks for amazing live videos to watch while there are no actual shows to attend include the late Adam Schlesinger's band Fountains of Wayne, the Grateful Dead's Closing of Winterland concert, and more.
Moses Sumney's top thirteen albums of the decade include picks from St. Vincent, Kanye West, Chairlift, Hundred Waters, Majical Cloudz, Ropert Glasper Experiment, Thundercat, and more, and he also listed other 2010 favorites from Beach House, Beyonce, Erykah Badu, Feist, The Roots, and others.