U.S. GIRLS NEW ALBUM BLESS THIS MESS COMING FEBRUARY 24 ON 4AD | NEW SINGLE/VIDEO FOR “FUTURES BET” OUT NOW ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS The highly anticipated eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American [...]
Dry Cleaning New Long Leg 4AD Story has it South London-based Dry Cleaning has its origin in a long-ago karaoke night and a small garage in which guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and Lewis Maynard would collaborate together. After [...]
Future Islands As Long As You Are 4AD Nearly three years after releasing The Far Field (2017) and six years after their breakout album Singles (2014), Future Islands have returned with another beautiful new wave synth-pop album called As Long As [...]
The Lemon Twigs Songs For The General Public 4AD Returning after their previous release, ambitious rock opera Go to School, Long Island brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario get back to the basics with more straight-ahead pop songs. Songs for the [...]
Gene Clark No Other (Deluxe Boxset) 4AD 4AD has remastered late American singer/songwriter Gene Clark’s 1974 solo album No Other. But the question is, did they really need to? Every instrument originally used can be heard on the remastered [...]
THE NATIONAL @ DEER LAKE PARK, BURNABY (BC) AUGUST 28, 2019 “Kate Staples and Hannah Georgas.” Matt Berninger gestured towards the two women to his left as he and his bandmates took their places on the stage at Deer Lake Park. He was referring [...]
Pixx Small Mercies 4AD Pixx’s sophomore album Small Mercies, out on June 7, 2019, really highlights the London-based singer’s grungy vocals. With lyrics that speak of deep thoughts and repression, each song has a bit of a love theme about it. [...]
The National I Am Easy To Find 4AD After several phenomenal albums and a recent Grammy win for Best Alternative Album, The National has raised the bar. Their eighth album I Am Easy To Find represents continuity and change, contrast and unity [...]
Beirut Gallipoli 4AD Basically Beirut is Zach Condon, who keeps himself busy between albums with numerous EPs and side projects (Realpeople, 1971, and Soft Landing). Featured on this album, alongside Condon (who provides the vocals and plays [...]
Deerhunter Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? 4AD Beloved Georgia experimental rock band Deerhunter’s new album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, is incredibly dreamy in some places, alert and aware of modern times [...]
GRIMES – “WE APPRECIATE POWER” 4AD ‘We Appreciate Power’ is the new track from Grimes; a hard, audacious rock banger which was produced, performed and written by Grimes and featuring HANA. The song meshes the dark, heavy sounds [...]
The Lemon Twigs Go To School 4AD The Lemon Twigs’ second debut album, Go To School, takes you on a heartbreaking journey of a young boy named Shane who is struggling with suicidal thoughts. Oh, and did I mention that Shane is a chimpanzee? [...]
The Breeders All Nerve 4AD The Breeders’ fifth album is also their first in a decade, and most notably, features the complete line-up behind one of the most iconic albums from the grunge-era 1990s, Last Splash. Grunge producer extraordinaire [...]
Tune-Yards I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 4AD The Tune-Yards (stylized as tUnE–yArDs) is a duo who has been recording since 2009. The band is really the brainchild of Merrill Garbus, who started the band in 2006. In 2009, [...]
U.S. GIRLS – “MAD AS HELL” IN A POEM UNLIMITED (FEB 16, 2018) 4AD Toronto, Ontario January 5, 2018 U.S. Girls is American-born, Meg Remy’s musical moniker. The Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist’s music traces a [...]
The National Sleep Well Beast 4AD Formed in 1999 and originally from Cincinnati, but now based in Brooklyn NY, American Indie Rock band The National have released their highly anticipated seventh studio album, Sleep Well Beast. The first single, [...]
Pixx The Age Of Anxiety 4AD The “sound of the 80’s” has been creeping its way back into the music industry more and more lately. This synth pop sound is especially noticeable the moment The Age of Anxiety by Hannah Rodgers, known as Pixx, begins [...]
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister Planetarium 4AD 2017 is certainly shaping up to be the year of the album. This album has taken on almost mythical proportions. The group came together in 2012 for a performance at a [...]
Future Islands The Far Field 4AD The Far Field is Future Islands 5th record, but it’s the first that they know will be released to eager fans. Their previous album, Singles, came out in 2014 without a label but gained them a performance on David [...]
SOHN Rennen 4AD Rennen came out via 4AD on January 13th, 2017. Christopher Michael Taylor, aka SOHN, (translated in German as “run”) felt like he had been running, both physically and emotionally, for the past two years. In the wake of his 2014 [...]
Purity Ring w/ Hana @ Winspear Centre, Edmonton @ Edmonton, Alberta October 21, 2016 Hometown shows tend to be special occasions when bands reunite with their friends, family, and original supporters. For the latest leg of Purity Ring’s tour in [...]
Blonde Redhead Masculin Féminin 4AD You may not realize it, but Blonde Redhead’s been making music since 1993. Check that. Let’s do that first sentence over again. You may not know it or you may have forgotten but Blonde Redhead’s still a band. [...]
