Maps and Atlases

Ratboys on how Maps & Atlases, Land of Talk, a cat named Moose & more inspired their new album

Ratboys vocalist/guitarist Julia Steiner tells us about the influences behind the band’s new album ‘The Window.’

Braid's Bob Nanna made a playlist of the soundtrack to his self-isolation schedule

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…

tours announced: Coheed/Foxing, Vein, Drive By Truckers/Lucinda Williams, 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.

Five Notable Releases of the Week (6/1)

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.

stream Maps & Atlases' "Ringing Bell" from first album in 6 years

”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.

43 songs we like from April 2018 (that don't say "poopity scoop")

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.

Maps & Atlases announce new album & tour, share "Fall Apart"

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.

Upstream Festival announces 2018 lineup (Jawbreaker, The Flaming Lips, Miguel)

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

Nnamdi Ogbonnaya makes avant-rap ft. members of Maps & Atlases, Joan of Arc, Algernon Cadwallader & more (listen)

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…
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