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What's Going on Sunday?

Sunday’s NYC-area shows include Cass McCombs, Swirlies, 7Seconds, Bayside, Michael Cera Palin, Teenage Halloween, Caspian, Drake, and more.

Oceanator announces new LP co-prod. Bartees Strange, shares song ft. Jeff Rosenstock on sax

Oceanator’s new song also comes with a Chris Farren-directed video, and it’ll take you right back to the ’90s teen movie alt-rock soundtrack era, with sax by Jeff Rosenstock and gang vocals by members of Bad Moves, The Sonder Bombs, Maneka, and more…

Life after LVL UP: members discuss staying prolific with new projects

Since the Brooklyn indie band broke up in 2018, its members have become even more two prolific, and two of them release anticipated albums with their newer projects this week. We caught up with each of them to discuss the music they’re making now…

37 New Songs Out Today

Listen to new songs by Michael Kiwanuka, They Might Be Giants, Hayden Thorpe (Wild Beasts), Sam Evian, Santana/Chris Stapleton, Leo Nocentelli (The Meters), Monolord, Save Face, and more.

32 New Songs Out Today

Listen to new songs by Xenia Rubinos, The Silver, Church Girls, Lil Ugly Mane, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Kevin Morby, Xeno & Oaklander, Ducks Ltd, Spirit Was, and more…

Our favorite songs of the week (playlist)

This week’s playlist includes new music by The Specials, Anxious, Sturgill Simpson ft. Willie Nelson, Deafheaven, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and more.

LVL UP offshoot Spirit Was goes black metal; Trace Mountains shares new song too

The debut LP from Spirit Was, and the third album from Trace Moutains, are both due out this fall.

What's going on Thursday?

Thursday show options include Iron and Wine & Calexico, Charlotte Adigéry, John Doe/Kristin Hersh/Grant Lee Phillips, Rapsody/Sa Roc, Steve Gunn/William Tyler, and more.

tours announced: Christian Scott, Steel Pulse, Nilufer Yanya, Joseph Shabason, more

Plus: Killing Joke, Andrew Bird, Jerry Seinfeld, Dark Tea, Mystic Braves, and more tour-related news.

watch Operator Music Band's "Moto Komplete" video, catch them on tour

“What you get is a Lynchian retro sci-fi nightmare carousel turning endlessly upon itself, revealing with clock-like precision the results of a telephone repair exorcism gone awry.” – Operator Music Band’s Jared Hill on their new video.