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Read MoreOut Friday on Matador Records, Ripped and Torn is the eagerly awaited debut album by Chicago trio Lifeguard. Today, listen to the band’s churning third single ‘Like You’ll Lose.’ The dub-inflected track
Lifeguard’s Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater discuss the latest single from their debut LP Ripped and Torn which is set for release on Friday June 6 via Matador. The trio
Last night, Pavement made their debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform ‘Harness Your Hopes,’ the group’s b-side-cum-streaming-smash, now officially certified as an RIAA gold record. Watch the clip
An examination of the seminal band, Pavements appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn’t. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film directed by Alex Ross Perry
Queens of the Stone Age will unveil the cinematic realisation of a dream with the June 6 premiere of Alive in the Catacombs, an audiovisual document of the band’s long-rumoured performance in the tunnels
Lifeguard have released new single and video ‘Under Your Reach’, taken from the Chicago trio’s forthcoming debut album Ripped and Torn, out June 6th on Matador. ‘Under Your Reach’ expertly blends the
The Scholars is the first new Car Seat Headrest album in five years – an expansive suite of songs that sweeps seamlessly from majestic glam to The Who-worthy bombast. Earlier this week Car Seat
Out Friday, The Scholars is the first new Car Seat Headrest album in five years – an expansive suite of songs that sweeps seamlessly from majestic glam to The Who-worthy bombast. Today,
The Hard Quartet – Messrs. Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White – recently returned with a brand new digital two-song single. The elegant Kelly-led shredder ‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ was recorded last July
This Friday, April 18, two of music’s most iconic young songwriters Julien Baker (boygenius) & TORRES will release their highly anticipated debut collaborative album, Send a Prayer My Way, via Matador Records.