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This Friday, February 23rd, singer/songwriter and guitar legend Mary Timony – famed member of Autoclave, Helium, Wild Flag, and Ex Hex, in addition to Lindsey Jordan/Snail Mail’s former guitar teacher, who Wild Flag bandmate and Sleater-Kinney co-founder Carrier Brownstein once called, “Mary Shelley with a guitar” – will release...

Today Brighton post-punk outfit Squid released standalone single “Fugue (Bin Song),” the follow-up to their second full-length, O Monolith, which dropped last June on Warp and which prompted Stereogum to say, “Squid turn dance-rock inside out until you can’t really dance to it anymore.  The arty, explosive O Monolith will still...

Last week Lindsey Jordan, better known as Snail Mail, played her first show since the pandemic at Idaho’s Treefort Music Festival.  The performance was the first since both the singer/songwriter’s critically acclaimed sophomore LP, Valentine, and since she had surgery to correct vocal cord polyps, which delayed her tour. ...

This Friday, June 25th, sees the release of Lucy Dacus’ third LP, Home Video, courtesy of Matador.  The album chronicles the existential ins and outs of Dacus’ formative years in Richmond, VA.  Her fourth and latest single, “Brando,” tells the tale of a high school friend obsessed with Old...