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Swim Deep have announced their fourth studio album ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’ – listen to new single ‘How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?’ below.The Birmingham band are due to release the 10-track record on June 7 via Submarine Cat Records (pre-order/pre-save here). Following on from 2019’s ‘Emerald Classics’, the forthcoming collection was produced by Bill Ryder-Jones (Yard Act, The Wytches).Arriving today (February 21), the gentle and heartfelt ‘How Many Love Songs…’ delves into the “deep self-examination” frontman Austin ‘Ozzy’ Williams has undertaken in recent years.

From March 27–30, amid the University of Tennessee men’s and women’s basketball teams’ dominant runs in the 2025 NCAA tournament, downtown Knoxville will be overrun with experimental music, forcing fans in Tennessee Orange apparel to wade through a sea of vintage band tees. Every year at Big Ears, genre-blurring giants perform across a dozen-odd venues.

Matty Healy of The 1975 has shared a list of his all-time favourite albums.

it was confirmed that Father John Misty, Caribou, Self Esteem and Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory would all be headlining.Other names on the initial bill included Mount Kimbie, Black Country, New Road, Goat and former Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep.Today (February 13), organisers have shared an extensive list of new additions for across the weekend. These include The National frontman Matt Berninger, Viagra Boys, Katy J Pearson, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Jasmine 4.t, Erol Alkan (DJ), Adult DVD and Chastity Belt.Elsewhere on the updated line-up are the likes of The New Eyes, Tom Ravenscroft (DJ), Slow Fiction, Titanic, The Golden Dregs and Trace Mountains.Check out the revised official poster here:Tickets for End Of The Road 2025 are on sale now – you can buy yours here.Headliners Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory released their self-titled new album last Friday (February 7).

Black Country, New Road have announced a new single and teased their next album with interactive billboards across London.The band shared a short snippet of their new track ‘Besties’ on their social media channels, which you can view below. It is out next Thursday (January 30) and can be pre-saved here.It comes after several billboards popped up across London teasing their new album with the date “04.04.25”.They have been spotted in Stoke Newington/Shacklewell, Cambridge Heath Road, New Cross Gate, Kingsland Road and Mare Street.A post shared by Black Country, New Road (@blackcountrynewroad)On three of the billboards, fans are able to press a big red button which lights up a star, which is a key visual motif of their album campaign.

MJ Lenderman joined Yo La Tengo on stage in New York on Sunday (December 29) to cover Bob Dylan – check out footage below.The collaboration took place at the latest night of Yo La Tengo’s Hannukah residency at the Bowery Ballroom in the city, which sees the band play every night until January 1.Lenderman and his band The Wind were the opening act on the night and he later popped up again during Yo La Tengo’s set to play a version of ‘Something There Is About You’, a track from Dylan’s 1974 album ‘Planet Waves’.Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley was also on drums for the performance, and you can watch footage captured from the show below.@stevenhyden.bsky.social something there is about you featuring MJ, yo la tengo, Steve shelley— (@tinymontgomery.bsky.social) 2024-12-30T06:05:59.962Z‘You Are Here’ ‘Ohm’ ‘The Ballad Of Red Buckets’ ‘Tonight’s Episode’ ‘Let’s Do It Wrong’ ‘Something There Is About You’ ‘Don’t Have To Be So Sad’ ‘Nowhere Near’ ‘Deeper Into Movies’ ‘Drug Test’ ‘Out The Window’ ‘Sudden Organ’ ‘Sugarcube’ ‘Mushroom Cloud Of Hiss’ It is not the first noteworthy event to have taken place during Yo La Tengo’s current residency – on Saturday, the post-punk band The Soft Boys reunited to open the show and later joined Yo La Tengo for an encore that included songs by The Beatles and The Velvet Underground. Other guests to have joined them so far in the residency include Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan, Wilco’s Pat Sansone and comedian Fred Armisen.

Yo La Tengo show – check out footage below.Yo La Tengo were playing the fourth of a 10-night residence at the city’s Bowery Ballroom as part of their annual Hannukah celebrations on Saturday night (December 28) when three original members of The Soft Boys joined forces on stage to play a set of songs from across their career.Frontman Robyn Hitchcock was joined by guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Morris Windsor and together they played a 13-song set, including classics such as ‘Underwater Moonlight’ and ‘Kingdom Of Love’.After Yo La Tengo’s headline set, the two bands teamed up for an encore, which included The Soft Boys’ ‘Queen Of Eyes’ and ‘I Wanna Destroy You’, as well as The Velvet Underground’s ‘Run Run Run’ and The Beatles’ ‘It’s All Too Much’.Check out the footage below.A post shared by Robyn Hitchcock (@robynhitchcockofficial)A post shared by Robyn Hitchcock (@robynhitchcockofficial)‘Kingdom Of Love’ ‘Madonna Of The Wasps’ ‘Brenda’s Iron Sledge’ ‘City Of Shame’ ‘Sally Was A Legend’ ‘Sudden Town’ ‘Sounds Great When You’re Dead’ ‘The Sir Tommy Shovell’ ‘Give It To The Soft Boys’ ‘The Pigworker’ ‘Insanely Jealous’ ‘He’s A Reptile’ ‘Underwater Moonlight’ The Soft Boys formed in Cambridge in 1976 and released two studio albums – ‘A Can Of Bees’ (1979) and ‘Underwater Moonlight’ (1980) – before disbanding in 1981. They reunited in 2001 and released a third album ‘Nextdoorland’ the following year, before splitting once again in 2003.The band’s bassist Matthew Seligman died in 2020 from COVID-19 complications at the age of 64.Yo La Tengo are playing at the Bowery Ballroom every night up to and including New Year’s Day.

New Order, Weezer, Beach House, Justice and more have been announced as the headliners for Kilby Block Party 2025.The four-day music bash will be returning to its home at the Utah State Fairgrounds in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 15-18. Passes for the music festival are set to go on sale tomorrow (December 4) at 10am MST (12pm ET, 5pm GMT).

Primavera Sound 2024 will take place in Barcelona, Spain – and you can catch it at home via livestream.The festival, which runs from Thursday (May 30) to Saturday (June 1), is partnering with Amazon Music to broadcast select performances from its Parc del Forum venue. On Tuesday (May 28), Amazon Music confirmed in a press release the artists whose performances will be broadcast on its livestream.

Amy Poehler has shared the story behind her appearance on the cover art of Yo La Tengo’s 2000 single, ‘You Can Have It All’.On Tuesday (May 22), Poehler was featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a special guest to promote her upcoming film, Inside Out 2. In the Pixar sequel to the 2015 animated movie, Poehler reprises the role of main protagonist Joy.At the start of the interview, host Kimmel mentions that a staffer passed him a CD copy of ‘You Can Have It All’, which he brings out to show Poehler and the audience.Kimmel asks Poehler if the red substance around her lips is blood, to which she clarifies that it is, instead, pasta sauce – part of a sketch segment by her former comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade.“That’s a sketch I did with UCB, my sketch group, called ‘Spaghetti Jesus,’” she explained.“The premise of the sketch is that the face of Jesus is found in a bowl of spaghetti, and then someone ate it.

End Of The Road have confirmed a slew of new additions to its 2024 line-up, including Richard Hawley, Lambrini Girls, Altın Gün, and more.This year’s edition will take place at its usual spot on the Larmer Tree Gardens site on the border of Dorset and Wiltshire, and run between August 29 and September 1.IDLES, Slowdive, Fever Ray have all been confirmed so far, while others include Sleater-Kinney, Yo La Tengo, Lankum, Jockstrap, CMAT, Nation Of Language and The Lemon Twigs.Joining them as part of the new announcement are Billy Woods, Lætitia Sadier, Still House Plants, Gustaf, Sextile, MSPAINT, Debmaster, SENYAWA, Chanel Beads, H31R, Plantoid, Anastacia Coope, The None, NiCKY, SOMOH, OTG and Me Lost Me.MORE BANDS JUST ANNOUNCED FOR END OF THE ROAD 2024!Joining IDLES, Slowdive, Fever Ray, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney and Lankum in the gardens will be legendary Sheffield singer-songwriter @RichardHawley and psych-folk-rock supergroup @altingunband (1/3) pic.twitter.com/LkVqNAxVOs— EndOfTheRoadFestival (@EOTR) April 25, 2024“This year’s line-up is very special to me. It includes a lot of artists who released personal favourite albums of 2023: Lankum, Nation of Language, Slowdive, Casisdead, Yo la Tengo, The Lemon Twigs, Joanna Sternberg, Mark Lewis Hamilton, Fever Ray and many more,” said End Of The Road co-founder Simon Taffe of the 2024 edition.“I’m also super excited that Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is performing a very rare festival appearance – Will Oldham is one of the all-time greats.

Arlo Parks appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night (April 6), where she performed ‘Devotion’ – check it out below.The singer has just wrapped up a tour of North America and while she was in the States, she stopped by to perform the final single from her second album ‘My Soft Machine’.“‘Devotion’ to me is a song about feeling so in love it’s almost like being ripped apart, there’s an intensity, a wildness and a tenderness,” Parks previously said of the track in a statement, adding the track “draws from the bands that made me fall in love with music from Deftones to Yo La Tengo to Smashing Pumpkins to My Bloody Valentine.”Check out the performance below:Meanwhile, Parks also said she had co-written the track ‘Ya Ya’ from Beyoncé’s new album ‘Cowboy Carter’.“Being a part of this rich, culture shifting record truly feels like a dream come true…thank you Mariel for the trust, @Beyonce,” Parks wrote on X/Twitter. “You are truly a FORCE – this is SPECIAL.”Parks is set to play this year’s edition of All Things Go festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Washington, D.C.

Ellise Shafer Lana Del Rey, Pulp and SZA are among the headlining acts for next year’s Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain. Other bold-faced artists performing at the festival include Disclosure, FKA Twigs, Justice, Mitski, The National, Phoenix, PJ Harvey and Vampire Weekend. Also on the stacked lineup are Arca, Beth Gibbons, Bikini Kill, Charli XCX, Clipse, Deftones, Jai Paul, Kim Petras, Omar Apollo, Peggy Gou, Rels B, Troye Sivan, 070 Shake, Amyl and the Sniffers, Anothr, BadBadNotGood, Ethel Cain, Faye Webster, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib (in a special “Pinata” 10-year anniversary performance), L’Imperatrice, Milo J, Mochakk, Roisin Murphy, Romy, Stella Maris and Yo La Tengo.

The experimental music community mourns its losses intensely. Just this past weekend, an army of deep listeners rushed to pay tribute to one of their own — Stars of the Lid co-founder Brian McBride, who died on Sunday, August 27 at the age of 53.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard took to the stage in drag for their third show at the Caverns Ampitheater in Grundy County, Tennessee this past weekend (June 3).The band’s performance, as noted by SPIN, came mere hours after a recent Tennessee state law banning public drag performances was officially deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. It was also reportedly “Pride Night” at the venue, as part of ongoing Pride Month celebrations around the world throughout June.“This ain’t no protest, baby,” guitarist Joey Walker said to the audience.

Arlo Parks is offering her last single ahead of the release of her forthcoming sophomore album, My Soft Machine, which is out everywhere this Friday. "Devotion," the latest offering from the record, also comes with an official music video that you can watch below.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor On May 30, Foo Fighters will headline the opening night of a new Washington D.C. venue called the Atlantis, an intimate 450-capacity room opened by independent promoter I.M.P., which also owns and operates area venues the 9:30 Club and the Anthem and operates the Lincoln Theatre and Merriweather Post Pavilion. The venue kicks off the season with a robust opening lineup that includes Maggie Rogers, Parliament Funkadelic, Yo La Tengo, Darius Rucker, Joan Jett, Tove Lo, Jeff Tweedy, Tank and the Bangas, Portugal. The Man, and Billy Idol, among others (full lineup below). The new club was accidentally announced by D.C.-area native Dave Grohl in September of 2021, when Foo Fighters played the re-opening night of the long-running 9:30 Club after months of pandemic shutdown. He said I.M.P. was going to open a new, smaller venue fashioned as a near replica of the original 9:30 Club, where he got his start. He gave no additional details but added, “We’ll probably be the band that opens that place, too, right?”

Yo La Tengo brought out Wilco for the encore of their show at Metro in Chicago last night, during which they performed four covers together.The bands ran through the Beatles‘ ‘She’s A Woman’, Bob Dylan‘s ‘Love Minus Zero/No Limit’, the Heartbreakers’ ‘One Track Mind’ and Fairport Convention’s ‘Who Knows Where The Time Goes?’.After Wilco departed the stage, Yo La Tengo signed off on their set with another cover, ‘Yellow Sarong’ by The Scene Is Now. Earlier in their set, the band covered Wilco’s ‘If I Ever Was A Child’.Check out their covers below:At an earlier stop on their current US tour this month, Yo La Tengo made headlines by playing a show in Nashville, Tennessee in drag to protest the state’s restrictive new drag law.Earlier this month, Tennessee became the first US state to sign a law banning “adult cabaret” on public property or anywhere it could be seen by children, including “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest, or similar entertainers”.The statute – which means a ban on drag performances in public spaces, set to take effect on April 1 – and similar laws, are reportedly being pushed in other Republic-run states.The band made no direct mention of the new law, but said in a statement (via Pitchfork): “What we did last night couldn’t have been clearer, and requires no further comment.”The band released a new album, ‘This Stupid World’, in February.

Øya Festival has announced another wave of acts for its 2023, with Lorde confirmed to appear as the Wednesday co-headliner.Sløtface, Roisin Murphy, Okay Kaya, Yo La Tengo, Viagra Boys, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Moderat and Special Interest have also joined the line-up of the Norwegian festival, which is set to return to Oslo’s Tøyenparken for its 23rd edition from August 8-12.Already confirmed to headline will be Wizkid, Blur, Swedish singer-songwriter Håkan Hellström and Sigrid. They will be performing alongside previously announced acts such as   Devo, FKA Twigs,  Caroline Polachek, Shygirl, Amyl and The Sniffers, Obongjayar, TV GIRL, Pusha T, Susanne Sundfør.Also appearing at the festival will be Ayra Starr, Dry Cleaning, Uncle Waffles, Liv.e, Boldy James & The Alchemist, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Oxlade, Billy Strings, Snail Mail, Domi & JD Beck, Balming Tiger, Lars Vaular, Dina Ögon, Fangst, Tigerstate, Bigbang, Malin Pettersen, and Valkyrien Allstars.The festival will again feature a 50/50 split between male and female artists while also supporting an “environmentally friendly and sustainable ethos that’s applied to every element of its organisation”.

William Earl Yo La Tengo have been releasing well-loved indie rock since the ’80s, and while their albums are strikingly consistent, an interesting thing happened in February: They dropped one of their best records ever. It’s easy to imagine most other bands on autopilot 17 full-lengths in, but the trio’s “This Stupid World” was a return to form that sharpened their craft to be more exciting than ever. Coming after the ambient work on the band’s experimental 2020 project “We Have Amnesia Sometimes,” “World” snapped into focus with an all-timer guitar freakout on opening track “Sinatra Drive Breakdown” and continued with all of the sly songwriting, catchy hooks and droning dynamics the YLT’s best writing has in common.

During the second set of their performance Monday night at The Basement East in Nashville, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and James McNew donned drag outfits, The Tennessean reports. Though they didn’t openly mention the meaning behind their wardrobe change, it came amid nationwide public outcry over a new law signed into action by Tennessee governor Bill Lee earlier this month.