Pitchfork Remembers Jeffrey Runnings (For Against)
After Jeffrey Runnings, the longtime leader of For Against, died of cancer in March, Pitchfork ran an obituary and shared the musician’s new solo single “Batman Forever.” That track is at radio now. Pitchfork also included a statement from Bruce Licher, whose Independent Project Records will release Runnings’ posthumous solo LP later this year. Licher says, “Jeffrey Runnings was not only […]
Paul Givant Takes The Old Grey Cat Back To The Seventies
The Old Grey Cat opens a review of Paul Givant‘s new LP Marigold by remembering a time when “Gordon Lightfoot, Seals & Crofts, Roberta Flack, Maria Muldaur, Melissa Manchester, even country crooners like Charlie Rich, breezed across the airwaves and ‘easy listening’ collections, their mood-inducing tunes meant for life’s more laidback moments. Akin to liquid crystals, the gentle melodies and […]
Melvins 1983 Go Deep With Punknews
New Melvins album Thunderball is billed as being by Melvins 1983, which means the record features original drummer Mike Dillard – one of Buzz Osborne‘s lifelong best friends – rather than the legendary band’s regular skin-thumper Dale Crover. Punknews has an epic interview with Osborne and Dillard about their long history. Fans of the band – and friendship, in general – should check that out here. See […]
New Music From Group Project
Montréal’s Group Project is everything one could wish for in a group: a song-making machine that blends folk rhythms, funky basslines, rock ‘n’ roll guitars, electronic percussion and synthesizers to create a distinctive take on alternative pop music with haunting and catchy lyrics. The group began in 2015 when Jeremy Harbec met Jacob Brown and they began experimenting with EDM and […]
Kaela Tells Her Story To KXT
Kaela is at radio now with her debut LP Supraliminal, but she is perhaps best known for her work with French electronic act M83, of which she’s been a contributor since 2016. It was in this context that she was interviewed by Dallas’s KXT 91.7 in 2023, while she was on tour with M83 in the area. In the interview, […]
Opus.ing Shares “Batman Forever” by Jeffrey Runnings
Opus.ing writes, “If the name Jeffrey Runnings doesn’t sound familiar, then you might recognize For Against, the iconic post-punk/shoegaze outfit from Lincoln, Nebraska… “‘Batman Forever’ is more stripped down and skeletal than you might expect from For Against’s frontman, but it’s no less haunting thanks to Runnings’ imploring vocals and minimal instrumentation.” The site has coverage of the new […]
13th Floor Likes Thunderball
“Like most of Melvins‘ music,” 13th Floor writes about the new Melvins LP Thunderball, “there is rarely an ease to it, the listener is almost always challenged, conventions consigned, and thus coaxed ever so craftily to coalescence.” The site recommends the new LP, which is currently at radio via Ipecac Recordings. Here is the review. See the band live with Napalm Death: […]
New Music From Mary Halvorson
Nonesuch Records will release About Ghosts by Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson on June 13, 2025. The album features eight new compositions by Halvorson, performed with her sextet Amaryllis, the improvisatory band that also was featured on her critically praised albums Amaryllis, Belladonna, and Cloudward. Amaryllis comprises Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles join the ensemble on […]
Buzz Osborne Talks To Echoes And Dust
“I work at this very hard and have a fun time doing all of it,” Melvins leader Buzz Osborne recently told Echoes And Dust. “I feel very fortunate that I’m able to make my living playing music and being a full time musician. And since that is the case for me, and don’t take it lightly I try to do […]
Kaela Talks Process With Sequential
Sequential has an interview with Kaela, who is at radio now with her debut LP Supraliminal. She’s also a member of M83 and has worked with other esteemed artists including Sofi Tukker. In this interview, Kaela gives some of her musical story and also breaks down how she crafts synth sounds. “On the Prophet X,” she says, “I start by […]
mxdwn Likes Melvins’ “Wholly Thrilling” Thunderball
Melvins new LP Thunderball, according to mxdwn, is a set of “epic proportions [that] drops like a punk rock brick, demanding attention from the onset.” On the record, the Melvins employ their trademark “volatile, flawless, synchronized, and wholly thrilling delivery.” Read more about the album, which is at radio now via Ipecac Recordings, here. See Melvins live with Napalm Death: […]
Dubinski Does The Skinny
In a recent interview, the boys of Dubinski tell The Skinny that their new album, What Is Your Definition of Happiness?, “is a journey of love, happiness, pain, sorrow, grief, healing, growth, and acceptance, inspired by our real-life experiences of losing loved ones, making new friends along the way, and discovering ourselves. The album flows in a similar way to […]
New Music From Kaela
Kaela is a genre-blurring singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer whose music transports listeners into vivid, otherworldly realms. Known for her role as a key member of M83 since 2016, Kaela has contributed extensively to both live and studio projects, including the band’s 2023 album Fantasy and its world tour. She has collaborated with artists like Sofi Tukker, King Princess, […]
Melvins Announce Even More 2025 Tour Dates
Melvins are currently on tour wirh Napalm Death and at radio with Thunderball. They’ve also just announced that they’ll cap off 2025 with the “Stop Your Whining Tour,” a six-week outing with special guests Redd Kross for a double shot of underground rock royalty.Thunderball delivers the “most irresistible, huge-sounding tunes” (Kerrang!) and – as AllMusic said […]
New Music From Jeffrey Runnings (For Against)
Independent Project Records (IPR) has announced the upcoming release of the posthumous, final solo album from Jeffrey Runnings, Piqued, on Friday July 11, 2025 on vinyl, CD, and digital formats. All formats will include four bonus tracks of rare recordings from the late 80s. The first single from Piqued, “Batman Forever,” is at radio now. Runnings was the creative […]
Alison Clancy Gets “Track Of The Day” Honors From White Light/White Heat
White Light / White Heat recently featured Alison Clancy’s “The Valley” as a “Track Of The Day.” The site calls the track “an eerie and ravishing musing that meanders on delicate yet passionate and stirring harmonies, rife with pent-up emotional intensity, loosely stitched on suggestive driving piano chords and backing ghostly guitar reverb, to find its immaculate […]
Science In Nature Gets Psychedelic, Baby
It’s Psychedelic Baby has an interview with Science In Nature, who are at radio now with Time Spent. “Upon listening to their new LP Time Spent,” the site contends, “you’re immediately taken on a beautifully cohesive, well-crafted, vast journey. Some of the vocals carry a Gotye-tinged feel, like on ‘Typical Joy,’ while ‘Edge of Line’ conjures the spirit of Talking […]
BPM Highlights foamboy’s “on my mind”
Beats Per Minute recently highlighted “on my mind,” from foamboy’s new EP lime, knife, time, hand. The site writes, “There’s a retro feel, like it’s incidental music from an 90s video game, but it also has some impressive technical chops and if you heard it at a jazz club you wouldn’t be very content. This is prime foamboy, […]
Musoscribe Muses On Springhouse
Musoscribe recently got a hold of the new Independent Project Records reissue of Springhouse‘s From Now To OK. The site says, “A wonderfully crafted album with equal parts power and subtlety, and with muscle and melody in equal measure, From Now to OK brims with top-notch songwriting, exquisite arrangements, chiming melodies. Highlights on the finely-tuned record are many… The ingredients are all masterfully […]
Don’t Sleep On Melvins’ Thunderball, Writes The Sleeping Shaman
The Sleeping Shaman has a review of Melvins’ new LP Thunderball. Apparently he is impressed. “As they’ve proven over the course of four (!) legendary decades,” the Shaman writes, “Melvins never make the same album twice as they’re constantly tinkering with their sound, always evolving, always searching for new sonics, always making music for themselves first and foremost, with Buzz […]
