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2 days agoInside Fcukers Great Debut Album O: CoSign Interview
Fcukers' debut album, Ö, showcases their diverse electronic style and was created in a transformative collaboration with producer Kenneth Blume.
Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew reunite to celebrate the influential record Remain in Light, often cited as Talking Heads' peak, with a concert tour.
I had always remembered it saying something different, and then I went back and it said, 'When the ships of my dreams return.' I was really blown away. It's so literal. It's a way to try and make sense of probably a childhood that at some point maybe felt a bit fragmented.
When the band split, I just needed a break. I took five years but I got pulled back into music. It's been a struggle. That's the main thing. I want it to be great, but I've got the pressure of having been in R.E.M. and it's a high bar, because I want this to be as good as that, and that's near impossible.
I was too embarrassed to sing in my apartment, he says on a video call. But my roommate at the time was dating the preacher's daughter, and had keys to the church across the street. In the dead of night, the madcap bassist and singer took his recording equipment to the empty church, set up on the podium, and first sang his anti-war song Too Many Puppies.
In a band where a guitar and a saxophone can use one another as camouflage, what good is absolute allegiance to six strings, anyway? Extra Stars is Uhlmann's most inquisitive and assured record yet, a 14-track playground where he uses every instrument at his disposal to pursue an obsession with curious sounds and the memories and emotions they can quickly conjure.
He looked it too, hiding under a mop of hair, hunched over a well-worn acoustic guitar with no bandmates to fall back on. But in truth, he had nothing to fear - the seated audience of a few hundred people, mesmerized by Owens' rambling guitar fingerpicking, forgave a clumsy chord here or there as they sat in rapt silence for most of the set.
I used to think I was over my startup failure. That was three years ago, ancient history, right? Yet every time I pitched a new idea to someone, my hands would shake. Every investor meeting felt like walking into that same room where I had to tell my team we were shutting down. My body remembered what my mind tried to forget. That's when Bruce Springsteen's words hit me like a freight train: "The past is never the past. It is always present. And you'd better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad."
Deeply influenced by both gospel and soul, by his teenage years he was a guitarist backing Z.Z. Hill and Joe Tex. Rawls went on to serve as long-time musical director for O.V. Wright, a role he maintained until Wright's death in 1980.
The Baltimore band's rendition of 'I Wanna Be Adored' is a clean combination of their dreamiest impulses and their rock-forward energy. Taking the tempo up just a tad from the original, Turnstile bring a touch of restlessness to the cover; frontman Brendan Yates powers through his vocal performance with passion, nailing a few arching belts as the band plays behind him with poise.
"As time wore on I found myself increasingly turning to my guitar instead of other people in times of loneliness and sorrow and confusion," a spoken passage from "Pathol O.G.," is not a line you'd expect to hear from the author of "Cold Blooded Old Times." But familiarity with the full sweep of Callahan's catalog gives his uncharacteristically direct expression power.
Neal already asked, Cain said, and he says [Perry's] thinking about it. I hope he comes out. It's never too late. We've got 100 shows, so he's welcome at any one of them. While there is nothing definitive about this statement, Cain remains hopeful. He added, He didn't say no leave it at that. Perry was the lead singer of Journey during the band's peak success from 1978 through 1987 and later from 1995 to 1998.
Fresh off the release of the Eyeball EP in January, They Might Be Giants have now announced their new album, The World Is to Dig, and released its lead single, "Wu-Tang." Out on April 14th, The World Is to Dig marks the band's first full-length album in five years, following their Grammy-nominated LP, BOOK, that came out in 2021. The World Is to Dig will feature 18 new tracks. An exclusive 180-gram vinyl color variant of the LP will be available at indie retail shops on April 17th. Get They Might Be Giant Tickets Here "Wu-Tang" is the first glimpse of what fans can expect, and if its sweetly nostalgic, 60s-esque sound is anything to go by, The World Is to Dig will be a romp through the past. Stream the new track and see the artwork below.
For years, Angel Du$t was Justice Tripp's balmy reprieve from Trapped Under Ice. When he fronted the Baltimore hardcore band, he cursed out ice queens and swore he'd " stay cold forevermore" to protect his heart. These tormented songs were molded by the trauma and violence that Tripp endured during his hardscrabble upbringing. Angel Du$t's 2014 debut, A.D., with its pink cover art and perky pop-punk sound, showed that he was learning to leave the past behind and warm up a bit.
Rut took piano lessons in grade school, but they didn't stick. He asked his parents for a guitar because he wanted to be Ace Frehley of KISS. When his guitar teacher told him the members of KISS "weren't real musicians," he stopped playing-until high school. "I found a friend who knew all the classic rock riffs. That's when I started hearing songs in my head," he said.
Per industry outfit Luminate, the song earned 3.8 million U.S. streams from January 16th to 22nd. Billboard reports that the song's climb up the charts actually began back in April 2025, and the single eventually peaked at No. 12 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart later that summer. All of this activity has also pushed Grace up the Billboard 200 charts, peaking to the 156 position.
Having already released two EPs under the moniker Georgia Gets By, 2024's Split Lip and 2023's Fish Bird Baby Boy, Georgia Nott (also of BROODS) has announced the project's debut LP, Heavy Meadow. We don't have more details on it yet, but earlier this week, she wrote on Instagram, "I have been imagining and growing this place for the last two years and to be on the cusp of beginning to share it with you all has me shaking with delight. More info forthcoming..."
January is the month where music is moving underneath the surface, feeling out the venues, plotting and planning for those great days under the sun, at a festival. If you are a globe-trotting DJ or band, January is the month you're finishing up those FaceTime calls with managers and bookers, and plotting out which month you'll be on the road playing the Empty Bottle in Chicago, the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA, or the Continental Club in Austin, TX.
Almost a decade and a half after they took basements and Tumblrs across America by storm with a raucous, self-flagellating singalong about avoiding your crush at a party, Joyce Manor have continued to mine everyday indignities for pop-punk gold. They've evaded the corniness and juvenility that have soured later-career records from some of their biggest inspirations. Instead, the Los Angeles band's seventh album falls more in line with DIY lifers like PUP, Jeff Rosenstock, the Menzingers, and Los Campesinos!
"I think this year will probably be it," Henley stated. "And I've said things like that before, but I feel like we're getting toward the end and that will be fine, too." When asked to confirm whether 2026 will be the end of the Eagles, he added, "I'm okay with that."