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Saturday, February 22, 2025

New Music Friday - February 14, 2025

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Bartees Strange - Horror Watch: "Sober" Watch: "Too Much"
	Cryogeyser - Cryogeyser Watch: "Stargirl" Watch: "Blue Light"
	Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On Watch: "2468" Watch: "Julie"
	Mallrat - Light hit my face like a straight right Watch: "Horses" Watch: "Pavement"
	venturing - Ghostholding Listen: "Dead forever" Listen: "Famous girl"

Other Full-Length Releases

Denison Witmer - Anything at All

Watch: "Focus Ring" (featuring Sufjan Stevens)
Watch: "Shade I’ll Never See" (featuring Sufjan Stevens)

Drake & PartyNextDoor - $ome $exy $ongs 4 U

Watch: "MEET YOUR PADRE"
Watch: "DIE TRYING"

fish narc - frog song

Watch: "my ceiling"
Watch: "old band"

The Lumineers - Automatic

Watch: "Same Old Song"
Watch: "Automatic"

Peter Dreams - Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR

Watch: "Do Like I Do"
Watch: "Arrivals"

Robert Ascroft - Echo Still Remains

Watch: "Should’ve Stayed in Bed" (featuring Christopher Owens)
Watch: "Devil Opens the Door" (with Kid Congo Powers)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

John Glacier - Like a Ribbon

Watch: "Found"
Watch: "Ocean Steppin" (featuring Sampha)

Kelela - In the Blue Light

Listen: "Blue Light" (unplugged)
Listen: "Waitin’" (unplugged)

Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet (Deluxe)

Watch: "Bad Reviews"
Watch: "Please Please Please" (featuring Dolly Parton)

New Music Friday - February 21, 2025

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Baths - Gut Watch: "Sea of Men" Watch: "Eden"
	Sunny War - Armageddon in a Summer Dress Watch: "Walking Contradiction" (featuring Steve Ignorant) Watch: "Scornful Heart" (featuring Tré Burt)
	Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream Watch: "Speed Freak" Watch: "Gumshoe (Dracula from Arkansas)"

Other Full-Length Releases

Califone - The Villagers Companion

Watch: "every amnesia movie"
Listen: "Family Swan"

Cici Arthur - Way Through

Watch: "All So Incredible"
Watch: "WayThrough"

Patterson Hood - Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

Watch: "The Pool House"
Watch: "A Werewolf and a Girl" (featuring Lydia Loveless)

Sam Fender - People Watching

Watch: "People Watching"
Watch: "Arm’s Length"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Porridge Radio - The Machine Starts to Sing

Watch: "Don’t Want to Dance"
Listen: "Machine Starts to Sing"

Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus

Watch: "I See Your Eyes"
Watch: "Goodbye Horses" (New Wave Version)

Tim Hecker - Shards

Watch: "Sunset Key Melt"
Listen: "Heaven Will Come"

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

My Favorite Albums of 2024

25. Yaya Bey - Ten Fold

24. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

23. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

22. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

21. Party Dozen - Crime in Australia

20. The Bug Club - On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System

Watch: "A Bit Like James Bond"
Listen: "Quality Pints"

19. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope

Watch: "Hell"
Watch: "Say It Like You Mean It"

18. Tindersticks - Soft Tissue

Listen: "Nancy"
Watch: "New World"

17. Gouge Away - Deep Sage

Watch: "Stuck in a Dream"
Listen: "Deep Sage"

16. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

Listen: "Wristwatch"
Watch: "She’s Leaving You"

15. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas

Listen: "¿Cómo Así?"
Watch: "Igual Que Un Ángel" (with Peso Pluma)

14. Charli XCX - BRAT

Watch: "360"
Watch: "I think about it all the time"

13. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

Watch: "Flea"
Watch: "All Born Screaming" (featuring Cate Le Bon)

12. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

Watch: "squabble up"
Listen: "tv off"

11. Wand - Vertigo

Listen: "Hangman"
Watch: "JJ"

Essential Full-Length Releases

	10. Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me Watch: "Sick of the Blues" Watch: "God of Everything Else"
	9. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK Watch: "CHANEL PIT" Watch: "27 CLUB"
	8. Sprints - Letter to Self Watch: "Heavy" Watch: "Literary Mind"
	7. Amen Dunes - Death Jokes Listen: "Joyrider" Watch: "Rugby Child"
	6. Hana Vu - Romanticism Listen: "Look Alive" Listen: "22"
	5. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal Watch: "DENIAL IS A RIVER" Watch: "CATFISH"
	4. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA Listen: "I Killed You" Listen: "Sticky"
	3. Elbow - AUDIO VERTIGO Watch: "Lover’s Leap" Watch: "Knife Fight"
	2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood Watch: "3 Sisters" Watch: "Right Back to It" (featuring MJ Lenderman)
	1. ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips Listen: "Pop" (featuring Rico Nasty) Watch: "Yeern 101"

Saturday, February 8, 2025

New Music Friday - January 31, 2025

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	MIKE - Showbiz! Watch: "You’re the Only One Watching" Watch: "man in the mirror”/“Artist of the Century"
	Pink Siifu - BLACK’!ANTIQUE Watch: "Last One Alive’!" Watch: "WHOUWITHHO+" (with Kal Banx)
	The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow Watch: "São Paulo" (with Anitta) Watch: "Dancing in the Flames"