Earlier this year -- just days after the pandemic arrived in America -- Pittsburgh metallic hardcore brutalists Code Orange released a tremendous and crushing album called Underneath. Obviously, that wrecked the band's touring plans. Instead, Code Orange played a physical, impressive record-release show in an empty venue, streaming it live on Tw...

Earlier this year, Australian studio wizards the Avalanches put out two new tracks, "Running Red Lights" (with Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu) and "We Will Always Love You" (with Blood Orange). They had a whole big billboard put up in Melbourne and everything, though chances are that whatever they had planned got derailed because of,…

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…

Following their lockdown album launch show, Code Orange reveal plans to live stream a stripped down and re-imagined selection of their back catalogue later this month

Devonté Hynes, the man who records as Blood Orange, is usually one of the busiest, most prolific collaborators on the landscape. During the quarantine era, Hynes has been relatively quiet; we haven't posted anything he's done since he showed up on the Avalanches' single "We Will Always Love You" back in February. But this past…