Shoegaze Greats Drop Nineteens Announce First New Album In 29 Years

Maria BC’s music is magnetic — simple, sparse, and hard to pull away from. The ambient-folk artist makes songs for quiet contemplation, songs that course with longing and ache with regret and stretch out to a far-off point on the horizon. Hyaline, their first full-length, is a more than effective introduction — it establishes a beguiling, tenuous atmosphere while also setting up different pathways for Maria BC to explore. It’s an ideal debut in that way: self-contained but also expressly interested in pushing further.

Rise up! Gather round! Rock this place to the ground! Def Leppard, all-time masters of glammed-out stadium-level riffage, are back to active duty. Tomorrow, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famers will release Diamond Star Halos, their first new album in seven years. Presumably, when Def Lep showed up on Jimmy Kimmel Live, they were there to promote that record. But the band’s regular on-air performance has not yet appeared on the Kimmel YouTube channel. Instead, we will have to content ourselves with a clip of Leppard cranking out three glorious arena bangers back-to-back-to-back. I suppose we’ll make do.

Mura Masa has announced a new album, demon time, the UK producer’s follow-up to 2020’s R.Y.C.. It’ll be out in September and it features guest spots from Lil Yachty, Slowthai, Channel Tres, Erika de Casier, Leyla, and more. Over the past few months, he’d dropped two tracks that’ll show up on it — “2gether” and “bbycakes,” which rounded up Lil Uzi Vert, PinkPantheress, and Shygirl for the same song. And today he’s back with a new single, “blessing me,” which features Jamaican dancehall artist Skillibeng and the British rapper Pa Salieu. Check it out below.

UK singer/songwriter/DJ/producer Lil Silva has always been prolific, releasing a spate of EPs and tracks since 2008 and collaborating with everyone from Sampha to Damon Albarn, Banks, SBTRKT, and Adele (he contributed production to 25). More recently, Silva appeared with Sampha on serpentwithfeet’s “Fellowship” and collaborated with George FitzGerald for the duo’s OtherLiine project. Plus, he appeared on Mustafa’s When Smoke Rises track “Capo” in 2021. Last month, Lil Silva shared “Backwards” featuring Sampha on vocals. Now, Silva has announced his first full-length LP, Yesterday Is Heavy, out July 15.

Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and producer Boom Bip unveiled their new project Belief at the start of this year with “I Want To Be,” and they have a debut full-length on the way. Over the past few months, they’ve shared some more tracks from it, including “Ulu” and “Jung,” and today they’re back with another single, “Art Of Love,” which has already had a Vanishing Twin remix that was released on a remix EP last month.

M.I.A. is armed with a brand-new record deal — with Island Records — and a new song: “The One.” This comes about six months after “Babylon,” a single M.I.A. released as part of an auction of her 2010 mixtape Vicki Leekx as an NFT. Prior to that, M.I.A. teamed up with Young Thug and Travis Scott on the collaborative track “FRANCHISE.” Ever since her last full-length album, 2016’s AIM, M.I.A. has released some one-off tracks (“CTRL,” “OHMNI 202091“) and launched a Patreon. In November of last year, she announced via Instagram that her sixth studio album would be called MATA.

The last we heard from Gordi, she was teaming up with Troye Sivan for a new song called “Wait.” That was tied to the movie Three Months, but now Gordi is back with her own project: a six-song EP called Inhuman. It’s out in mid-July. Along with...

For the last several months, Just Mustard have been rolling out their sophomore album Heart Under. We first heard “I Am You” way back in November, and since then the band have also shared “Still” and “Mirrors.” Heart Under finally arrives on Friday, but first the band is back with one more single.

Wilco already released a country double-album. A quarter-century ago, backed by bassist John Stirratt and an otherwise different cast of bandmates than they share now, Jeff Tweedy kicked out two discs’ worth of incredible songs that pulled him out of Jay Farrar’s shadow forever. Being There was a tour de force not many saw coming on the heels of Wilco’s solid, straightforward debut A.M.: effortlessly toggling from somber twang like “Far, Far Away” to rootsy power-pop like “Monday,” pouring Tweedy’s bleeding heart out into tender sweetness and barroom bravado alike, making room for epic excursions like the drowsy “Sunken Treasure.” From the very first track, when the glassy-eyed ballad “Misunderstood” rumbled to life like hulking machinery and built to its thunderous finale, it was clear that Tweedy was destined to be much more than the other guy in Uncle Tupelo.

He never shies away from a daring ensemble. And Olly Alexander made no exception as he donned a very racy mesh bodysuit with thigh-high leather boots at Wembley Arena on Thursday. The singer, 31, known as Years and Years, ensured to captivate the crowd during his Nightcall UK tour in...

In March, James Hinton announced his first new Range album in six years. It’s called Mercury, and we’ve already heard several songs from it, including “Bicameral,” “Ricercar,” and “Urethane.” The album’s coming out in a couple weeks now, but first Hinton is back with a final pre-release single.

Back in March, Orlando Higginbottom announced he’d released the first Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs album in 10 years, When The Lights Go. So far, we’ve heard two songs from it: “Blood In The Snow” and “Crosswalk.” Today, he’s back with another one. Higginbottom’s...

For the last couple months, MUNA have been rolling out their new self-titled album. So far, we’ve heard a couple songs from it, including “Anything But Me” and “Kind Of Girl.” (Their 2021 Phoebe Bridgers collab “Silk Chiffon” is also on the album.) Today, they’re back with another.

Rico Nasty has been sporadically dropping singles over the past year — most recently was “Vaderz” last month, and then the Flo Milli-featuring “Money” a few months before that. Today, she’s back with another new track, the distortion-heavy “Intrusive.”. “This song tells the...

Wynonna Judd and Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee have teamed up on a new duet titled “Other Side.” The two performers met and recorded together on Wynonna’s farmland property outside of Nashville. “In the midst of everything that has happened, I said that I would continue to sing,” Wynonna said in a statement. “So, here I am. I met Katie Crutchfield last year and we connected immediately. We recorded ‘Other Side’ in the studio here on the farm and it was one of my favorite recording experiences ever. I’m thankful for the opportunity to sing with the next generation of greatness.”

“Weird Al” Yankovic has partnered with Z2 Comics — the same company behind forthcoming projects from Tori Amos and Broken Social Scene — for a new graphic novel called The Illustrated Al: The Songs Of “Weird Al” Yankovic. It’ll feature 20+ classic “Weird Al” tracks as interpreted by artists like Bill Plympton, Aaron Augenblick, Peter Bagge, Steve Chanks, and more. It also includes a foreword written by comedian Emo Philips.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Derwin Schlecker, the playful British dance producer known as Gold Panda. Three years ago, Schlecker released “Transactional Relationship,” the last Gold Panda single. It’s also been three years since he released Jag Trax, the album that he recorded under his DJ Jenifa alter-ego. The last Gold Panda album came out even longer ago; we haven’t gotten one of those since Good Luck And Do Your Best in 2016. But there’s another new Gold Panda album coming this year, and we’ve got a new single today.

Last year, Noga Erez released a new album called Kids, plus an acoustic version called Kids (Against The Machine). We last heard from her back in January, when she returned with a live cover of Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby.” Today, she’s back with a new song of her own.

London indie-pop collective Superorganism are releasing their sophomore album, World Wide Pop, in July, and so far we’ve heard a few tracks: “Teenager,” “It’s Raining,” “crushed.zip,” and now they’re back with another one: “On & On.” The pop-leaning “On & On” also has a music video directed and animated by AEVA and features character animation by Diana Gradinaru. “It is a bit of an analogy between the groundhog day effect touring can have, and the cyclical nature of growing as a person and repeating the same mistakes along the way,” Harry explains of the track.

In June, Minneapolis-based musician Zora Grey will release her debut album as ZORA, Z1. We’ve already heard “RUNNITUP” and “HAPPIEST I’VE EVER BEEN.” Now, ZORA has shared a thrumming, urgent new song: “All Around The World.” Describing what she wanted to achieve with her “trans pop anthem,” ZORA says she envisioned a song “that we could dance to, rejoice in, and just celebrate being us. With today’s climate, there are so many times that we only hear about trans people when we’re dying or at risk somehow, and I wanted to create a song to remind us just how powerful we are, and to remind the masses that we’re not going anywhere.” Listen below.