It feels like forever ago that we were getting new Ben Gibbard covers every single week as part of his lockdown livestream series. He stopped doing those back in May, but he revived the practice to support his local team the Seattle Mariners for their Opening Day virtual ceremony, which took place last week, though…

At the beginning of the year, Cayetana leader Augusta Koch released her first full-length album as Gladie, Safe Sins. Over the weekend, she put up a new EP featuring three songs that were recorded at home. They're filled with isolation itchiness that could be applicable to any old time, songs about feeling trapped in impossible…

Back in January, which now feels like some lost ancient era, Gorillaz began teasing a project called Song Machine. A whole lot has happened since then, but Damon Alban's virtual band has kept putting out music with all the reliability and persistence that a project called Song Machine would suggest. First there was "Momentary Bliss"

Almost a year ago, My Morning Jacket finished off a short run of US shows by headlining Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. This was the last time that one of our most vaunted live bands played an actual live show, at least in the traditional sense of the term. Last week, though, after the barest…

In his post-prison recent years, Atlanta rap figurehead Gucci Mane has remade himself as a friendly, approachable face of Atlanta trap. But Gucci will still get pissed off and sever business relationships when he feels like it. During an interview with Charlamagne Da God last year, for instance, Gucci promised to "slap the shit out…