Maps and Atlases

Listen to lead single ”I Don't Know Love By Its Name” now.

Bob ran down what songs he listens to while ”working, reading, exercise, learning French, doing yoga, cooking, etc,” including Pedro the Lion, Destroyer, Bill Callahan, Maps & Atlases, and more...

Plus: Preservation Jazz Hall Band, Suzanne Vega, The LOX, Robyn, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, YG, The Interrupters, Delicate Steve, and more tour news.

This week's Notable Releases include the first Mazzy Star release in five years, Maps & Atlases' first in six, Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay's LUMP project, and more.

”I wrote a few lines of 'Ringing Bell' the day that my dad passed away. I wanted to express the strangeness of witnessing such a surreal transformation undertaken by someone so close to me, but I didn’t try to finish the song in that state, as I knew I didn’t yet have any perspective on the loss,” frontman Dave Davison says.

Our April playlist includes new tracks by Jenny Hval, Janelle Monae, Let's Eat Grandma, Sloan, Melody's Echo Chamber, Lord Huron, Sleep, Courtney Barnett, Deafheaven, and more.

It's the band's first album in six years, first since guitarist Erin Elders left to focus on Wedding Dress, and the most danceable music they've made yet.

The Seattle festival takes place from June 1-3 in the city's Pioneer Square.

Chicago musician Nnamdi Ogbonnaya may be a familiar name to anyone who lives in Chicago or follows their music scene. He's a former member of My Dad, has ties to the Swerp Records collective, and also currently plays in The Para-Medics, Pisces at the Animal Fair, The Scooper Swag Project and Nervous Passenger, as well as leading his own solo project, Nnamdi's Sooper-Dooper Secret Side Project...

Weatherbox at Saint Vitus in July (more by Amanda Hatfield) Earlier this year, Weatherbox had to drop off their tour with Dikembe (after hitting NYC) due to frontman/main member Brian Warren's mental health iss...