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Laura Veirs

Laura Veirs announces new album, Phone Orphans

Hear “Rocks of Time”

The National new album Laugh Track

The National release new album Laugh Track

See the video for “Deep End (Paul’s in Pieces)”

Sufjan Stevens

Essential Tracks: Sufjan Stevens, Actress, and more

Plus Dave Aju, Tomb Mold and Bad Nerves

Flooding

Hear the scorching new slowcore dirge from Flooding, “Transept Exit”

The Kansas City band’s new album ‘Silhouette Machine’ is out September 29

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock announces new album Integrated Tech Solutions

Hear new song “Mindful Solutionism”

Beth Orton Skinny Pelembe

Hear Beth Orton and Skinny Pelembe cover Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire”

The two artists take on Cohen’s 1974 track from ‘New Skin for the Old Ceremony’

mclusky unpopular parts of the pig

Mclusky release their first new music in 19 years

New EP, ‘unpopular parts of a pig/the digger you deep’, up on Bandcamp

Neckbolt

Watch Neckbolt’s trippy, lo-fi video for “No Magic”

New album ‘Dream Dump’ out September 22

Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way Baby reissue

Fatboy Slim announces 25th anniversary reissue of You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Remastered at half speed at Abbey Road Studios

Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens shares new song, “Will Anyone Ever Love Me?”

Plus listening parties announced

Stranded

Hear a new goth-psych song from Stranded, “Vacant Spirits”

‘Velvet Trace’ out September 27

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard announce three-hour marathon shows in the U.S. in 2024

Get comfy for these extra-long concerts

Earth 2 vinyl reissue

Earth’s debut, Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version, to be reissued for 30th anniversary

Hear The Bug’s remix of “Angels”

Actress

Actress announces new album, LXXXVIII

Hear new song “Game Over (e 1)”

Big Ears Festival 2024

Herbie Hancock, Unwound, Armand Hammer to play Big Ears Festival 2024

Plus Laurie Anderson, Beth Orton, Kurt Vile, Shabaka Hutchings and more

Tomb Mold

Tomb Mold announce new album The Enduring Spirit

New album out Friday via 20 Buck Spin

Hotline TNT

Essential Tracks This Week: Hotline TNT, Soul Glo, and more

Plus Ragana, Slaughter Beach, Dog and Faith Healer

Harms Way

Hear a new song from Harms Way, “Undertow,” featuring King Woman

Hear the latest single from ‘Common Suffering’, out September 29

Pretty Girls Make Graves

Pretty Girls Make Graves announce 20th anniversary reissue of The New Romance

Plus hear the band guest on the latest ‘Revisionist History’ podcast

Matmos

Matmos announces new album Return to Archive, featuring “non-musical” source material from Smithsonian Folkways archive

Hear “Mud-Dauber Wasp”