"Merritt's Musical Memories" Now Published

If you haven't had a chance to see the two night run of The Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir, go. It's a concert experience unlike just about any other that you'll have. The 50 songs are played sequentially over two nights with interpolations from the autobiographer and subject of the album, Stephin Merritt. In true Merritt-ese, these added bits seem culled from André Breton's long lost book of observational humor.  I got a...

Friday Streams -- June 1, 2018

Big release week, folks. Get your headphones on. New Releases Neko Case - Hell-On Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past Singles Kasami Washington - "Streetfighter Mas" Petal - "Stardust" Kadja Bonet - "Another Time Lover" Off the Radar Brighton 64 - Fotos de Ayer (1982-1987...

Friday Streams -- May 11, 2018

New Releases: Beach House - 7 A decade plus into their career, Beach House releases, guess what, their seventh album. Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek Mark Kozelek continues his unending quest to narrate his entire life in song in Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek Leon Bridges - Good Thing Off the Radar Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight The ordeal around Scott Hutchinson's disappearance has been harrowing. Midnight Organ Fight was...

Friday Streams -- April 27, 2018

This week's releases feature two progressive women doing what they do best. New Releases Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer Grouper - Grid of Points Sigur Rós - Route One Okkervil River - In the Rainbow Rain Off the Radar Dan Penn - Nobody's Fo...

Friday Streams -- April 6, 2018

Giant release day folks. You may need the weekend for all this. New Releases Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex and Food Hinds - I Don't Run Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs No Age - Snares like a Haircut Young Galaxy - Down Time The Amazing - In Transit Off the Radar Los Amigos Invisibles - The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera The first album by one of Latin America's finest sonic mixture...

Friday Streams -- March 23, 2018

New Releases Jack White - Boarding House Reach Guided by Voices - Space Gun The Messthetics - The Messthetics A new band from Joe Lally and Brendan Canty, the rhythm section of Fugazi. Off-the-Radar Dungen & Woods - Myths 003 Because we weren't around last weekend, check out this record from a collab between Swedish psychers and US psyche...