Music

Sacred Bones has released another new Alan Vega song, “Fist,” from the late Suicide frontman’s upcoming lost album, Mutator, out April 23rd. “Fist” finds a unique balance between mesmerizing and abrasive — locked in a steady drum groove with one synth swirling languidly while the other whirrs with a relentless …

Erika de Casier spent a few weeks recently holed up in a century-old house on a small island off the coast of Denmark, called Fanø. She was there with a group of other musicians and artists who’d all decided to isolate together while they worked on various projects — something …

When Florence Shaw was small, she dreamed of cows. She collected pictures and distributed them throughout her family’s large, run-down house in southeast London, which was soon filled with grazing bovines as far as the eye could see. “I was just completely enamored with everything about them,” she says now. …

The members of Gang of Four would likely be the first to tell you that you do not need an extravagant Gang of Four box set. They’re the ones who released a 45 sarcastically titled “To Hell With Poverty” and backed it up with “Capital (It Fails Us Now),” a …

Anna B Savage keeps writing about birds, but she’s not sure why. Her debut album, A Common Turn, released in January, is full of them: swallows, corncrakes, doves, and in one punny instance, a song about terns. “I’m still trying to work this one out,” she says. “When I was …

Nick Jonas is having a big week on the charts after pulling double duty as host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live on February 28th, performing “This Is Heaven” and “Spaceman.” Jonas saw a 122 percent increase in streams during the week of February 26th through March 4th compared …

Todd Snider’s live shows are unparalleled experiences. The folk singer delivers hilarious, heartbreaking songs about his life, punctuating them with stories that can stretch as long as 18 minutes — about everything from the time he joined a Memphis cover band called K.K. Rider to the time he took mushrooms …

Arlo Parks performed a beautiful rendition of her song “Black Dog,” surrounded by sunflowers, onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday night. The 20-year-old singer began the set by walking along a pathway lined with the blossoms, wearing a backpack with sunflowers bursting out the top to match. Along the …

Fatimah Warner’s verified Twitter page is an endless sprawl of revolutionary reading material (she’s been studying Karl Marx), a bulletin of global atrocities (LGBTQ activists in Ghana are living in fear of violent persecution, don’t you know), and a celebration of advocates and activists (Nina Simone and communist writer Claudia …

Blondie have teamed up with Z2 comics for Against the Odds, a new graphic novel out this fall. The novel is co-written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti — who previously relaunched the Harley Quinn series for DC Comics — and illustrated by John McCree. It chronicles the New Wave …