Brooklyn's Ribbon Stage is opening for the sold-out Bikini Kill show tonight at Pier 17.
The video here is for the 75-second "Rid Myself." As Pitchfork noted, the song "is over before you know it, but for a brief moment, it offers a much-needed dose of upbeat introspection."
Broadcast, the English pop-psych band, recently released The Maida Vale Sessions, a rarities collection "charting the band from their first year together to near-international recognition as their sound continued mutating."
Sadly, lead singer Trish Keenan died from pneumonia in 2011 at age 42.
The video here is for one of my favorite songs, "Come On Let's Go" from 2000.
The debut album from the Chicago-based trio Horsegirl is due out on June 3 via Matador Records. The video here is for a single from the LP, "Anti-glory."
Arlo Parks released a single titled "Softly" at the beginning of the month... a season-appropriate song "about how fragile you feel in the dying days of a relationship when you're still desperately in love."
The Chicago-based teen trio Horsegirl recently released this video for "Billy," a forthcoming 7-inch single (with a cover of the Minutemen's "History Lesson Part II" on side B) via their new label, Matador.
The band has said the song is "a love letter to past music scenes we wish we could have witnessed."
In case you were looking for some new dream pop ... the Swedish quintet Makthaverskan just released a new record titled För Allting via Run For Cover.
Going back to 1981 for this live clip of Delta 5 performing "Anticipation."
Julz Sale, the lead singer of the UK-based post-punk band, died this week. Details about her death were not disclosed.
Some background, cutting-and-pasting from Pitchfork: "Although the Delta 5 only released one full-length album —1981's See the Whirl — they released several other singles, which Kill Rock Stars collected in the 2006 set Singles & Sessions: 1979-1981."
The video for "Hertz," the latest single by Amyl and the Sniffers, dropped a few days back... the Australian band just released their latest record, Comfort to Me.
"End Of The Night" is the first single off the recently released EP by Brooklyn veterans A Place to Bury Strangers... which is also the first release on their own newly formed label, Dedstrange.
And, FYI, today is Bandcamp Friday — where the music platform waives its revenue share for the day.
The Parrots, a duo from Madrid, are releasing their second full-length record on Oct. 29. Ahead of that, here's the first single, a take on modern life called "You Work All Day and Then You Die."
The UK-based post-punk trio Desperate Journalist released a new record earlier this month... the video here (flash warning!) is for the first single — "Fault."