The star-studded musical companion to the film features new tracks from an unprecedented lineup of artists including Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Karol G, Charli XCX, Tame Impala, Haim and more. Barbie star Ryan Gosling also joins the robust roster of soundtrack artists with his iconic original song performed as his character, Ken.
The undisputed rock and roll icons are back! Their colossal new album, The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons, reignites the band's lore in arresting fashion, exploring the disappearance of the band's mysterious sixth member Randy Fitzsimmons even leading them to dig up his grave. What they found inside the casket is what you can now hear on record. Go fetch!
Recorded by Dan Auerbach, Tell Everybody! spans the diverse blues spectrum, a payment of respect and admiration for the musicians carrying this American tradition into this century and beyond. Includes new recordings from The Black Keys, RL Boyce, Gabe Carter, Robert Finley, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Moonrisers, Nat Myers and more.
The Magic Whip hinted at the essence of their chemistry but The Ballad of Darren revels in it, resulting in an album that feels age-appropriate without being stodgy: it's mature and nuanced, cherishing the connections that once were taken for granted but now seem precious. A brilliant, brave, and perhaps most importantly, truly creative album. *Features two bonus tracks*
Somewhere between Working Class Dog and Tao. Sonically, Automatic sees Springfield returning to his first love of guitar-based power pop and keyboards, while lyrically featuring his favored subjects of love, sex and death. “My goal was solid three-minute tunes with the biggest hooks I could come up with,” Springfield explains.
While 2020’s Fish Pond Fish celebrated the unity and harmony of the multi-instrumentalists, Everything Is Alive showcases the individuality of each band member. While their talent for lush harmonies and intricate songwriting has distinguished Darlingside, the evolution hereinspires listeners with a new degree of intimacy and nuance.
From the atmospheric, fuzzed out opener “Sunshine” to the midtempo rocker “Dark Sky’’ (featuring 311’s SA Martinez), the album will undoubtedly please fans who favor distorted guitars and crunchy chords. However, Teenage Wrist aren’t ashamed to admit that there’s a strong pop sensibility on the album that shows how much they’ve grown.
Follow up to last year’s GRAMMY-winning Best Bluegrass Album. The album, which was produced by Bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas, and features a guest appearance from Dave Matthews, presents a band of top notch musicians, fronted by Tuttle, firing on all cylinders. The songs are rooted in Bluegrass, but expand on Tuttle’s ability to add elements of Indie Rock, Folk and Americana.
Phoebe Hunt’s sparse and vulnerable new album feels like an exercise in stripping things away. After years of writing, recording, and touring as a band member and bandleader, her latest finds her as a woman standing alone, just her voice and her fiddle. Nothing Else Matters asks many questions, the most central being, “Is this enough? Am I enough?”
PJ Western creates music of contradictions. His tripped out pop-rock psychedelia evokes a haze of 60’s AM radio as heard emanating from someone else’s car window. Here I Go, Western’s debut album, was written in dreams. In visions. Wild but refined, classic but modern. The album is a lot like the man who wrote it: complex, celebratory, grateful.
Wary + Strange marks the collision of two vastly different worlds: the iconoclastic alt-rock that first sparked her musical passion, and the roots music scene where she's found breakout success in recent years. This album arrives as an immersive body of work, redefining the limits of roots music in its inventive rhythms and textures.
The world’s most exhilarating band return with the complete version of their Angels & Queens debut. Every song here is a wonder with the additional six tracks taking an already outstanding album to a whole different level. It’s proud, it’s seductive, and unlikely toinspire many imitators of its retro-future soul and damaged doo-wop. It’s simply too good to be copied.
Sunset 666 was Recorded live at Hollywood Palladium over six nights supporting Nine Inch Nails in 2018. Featuring the final night’s full set in sequence, with the show-opening, here-we-fucking-go drums of “Just Like Honey” to the ferocious euphoria of an eight-and-a-half minute “Reverence” closer. Sunset 666 finds the noise rock evergreens in fiery form.
Alt-pop icon Gus Dapperton’s vast and ambitious album Henge builds a new world – tugging the listeners between night and day, socializing and solitude. The album delivers a contemporary eclectic sprawl, at times landing between 80’s new-wave and 70’s funk while fusing dance rhythms with melancholic ambience – all providing a truly stunning experience.
Armed with the duo’s signature anthemic melodies, take-no-prisoners lyrics and tight musical interplay, every spin of the album is a chance to peek behind the curtain at two friends having one hell of a time doing what they do best. It’s a stunning 10-track album full of explosive hooks and even harder-hitting melodies.
With more of an electric edge than her past projects, 1988 feels in step with classic ‘90s albums by Sheryl Crow or Gin Blossoms, where lyrics pulled you in as much as melody or production. Playing together on acoustic guitars while facing one another in the studio, McKenna and producer Dave Cobb tracked the album live, giving it a feeling of immediacy and authenticity.
Many artists find inspiration on the road, but few do so with the keen eye and narrative talents of William Matheny. The West Virginia-based singer-songwriter finds inspiration for his brand of Appalachian Americana at truck stops and hotel lobbies, filtering his experiences through a perspective that’s equal parts curious and compassionate. Here Matheny shares that perspective across nine new tracks.
Echo The Diamond expands on the frenetic vitality of her debut Emotions and Math — which The New Yorker hailed as an album “in which pretty songs often turn prickly, enriched by carefully measured infusions of dissonance and grit.” Her first album in three years finds Glaspy at her most open, exploring grief and a highly personal sense of loss.
Fused signifiers of a wide variety of nostalgic sounds: his beloved bossa nova, yes, but also sprightly Philadelphia soul, the swelling strings of golden-era Hollywood, even the soundtracks and general vibe of 90s romcoms. Different musical gestures and lyrics stimulating long-dormant memories while simultaneously providing a soundtrack for new ones.
On Natural Disaster, the debut solo album from Best Coast’sBethany Cosentino, the Los-Angeles based singer/songwriter takes close account of the endless catastrophes and upheavals of modern life, offering a high-minded and open-hearted response that makes room for compassion, imagination, and a radical sense of possibility.
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