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Lost Girls

Hear a new song from Lost Girls (Jenny Hval), “Ruins”

Plus live dates announced

Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky announce new album, End

Hear new song “Ten Billion People”

Jane Birkin

R.I.P. French music icon Jane Birkin

The famed actress and singer has died at 76

Jamila Woods

Essential Tracks This Week: Jamila Woods, Baroness and more

Plus Forest Swords (with Neneh Cherry), Sprain and Activity

Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird announces new album, Outside Problems

Hear new song “Mo Teef”

Converge 2017

Converge announce fall tour dates

Including dates with Botch and Cave In

A. Savage Thanksgiving Prayer

A. Savage of Parquet Courts shares new song, “Thanksgiving Prayer”

Plus fall tour dates announced

Barker

Barker announces new EP, Unfixed

Hear “Birmingham Screwdriver”

best albums of 2023 - Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly Rae Jepsen announces new album The Loveliest Time

Hear new song “Shy Boy”

The Beths

The Beths announce deluxe edition of Expert in a Dying Field

Expanded album features eight bonus tracks

Laurel Halo

Laurel Halo announces new album, Atlas

Hear new song “Belleville”

Cherry Glazerr

Cherry Glazerr announces new album, I Don’t Want You Anymore

Hear new song “Soft Like a Flower”

Tom Waits

Tom Waits’ Island Records albums to be reissued on vinyl

First ever North American vinyl releases of ‘Bone Machine’ and ‘Franks Wild Years’ due this fall

Soul Glo Zulu tour

Soul Glo and Zulu announce co-headlining tour

Playytime opening all dates

Spellling

SPELLLING announces new album, SPELLLING & the Mystery School

Hear “Cherry” and “Under the Sun”

Lush reissues

Lush announce reissues of Spooky, Split and Lovelife

The band’s three studio albums returning to vinyl for the first time since the ’90s

Pharoah Sanders 1977 reissue

Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 album Pharoah to be reissued as expanded box set

Plus “The Harvest Time” project launches this fall, with different artists reinterpreting Sanders’ music

Forest Swords Butterfly Effect

Forest Swords shares two new songs, “Butterfly Effect” and “Tar”

Hear Matthew Barnes’ first new non-film or video game songs since 2019

Bonnie "Prince" Billy Crazy Blue Bells

Hear a new song from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, “Crazy Blue Bells”

The latest from ‘Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You’

Grails band

Grails announce new album, Anches En Maat

Hear new song “Sad & Illegal”