Bronson, a graduate of Bradley University, is a former sports writer and editor and graphic designer who worked in the newspaper business for 35 years.
Long Beach duo Soft Palms — Julia Kugel of The Coathangers and husband Scott Montoya — released their dreamy debut album today. In today’s QUARANTUNES, they dream of other things, like playing spies in their next video, a better world and what makes an Ultimate Summer Playlist.
Rapper Kenan Bell dives into the subtext of blackness in his jazzy new single “The Blacks,” out today. In fact, get ready for “bars and bars and bars of blacks.”
Inara George and her label Release Me Records have masterminded the “Road Angel Project,” a series benefiting Sweet Relief’s COVID-19 Fund. Coming on Friday: gems from Alex Lilly, Danniella De Andrea and Mike Viola.
Notes From a Pandemic: Watch Sonic Youth and Jamie Liddell; stream Bright Eyes, George Clinton, Live on My Green Fest, X Ambassadors, Grant-Lee Phillips, Dent May, Talker, Viver Brasil and more
Isolation driving you crazy? Not Autumn Percival. In “INTP-T,” the new rocker from Hawk Percival and Friends, she acknowledges she’s OK with being alone, “at home in my mind.”
How is Kid Bloom’s “Blood Sugar” level? It varies … so leave it to the rubbery bass line in the title track of his new EP to make sure we’re all stayin’ alive.
Alejandro Aranda returns Friday with his second full-length as Scarypoolparty, the concept album “Doom Hologram” — and plays a drive-in show in O.C. to celebrate. In today’s QUARANTUNES, he shares how he’s doing during lockdown and a playlist that’ll rock your world.
Watch Nathaniel Rateliff and Phoebe Bridgers at Red Rocks; stream Megan Thee Stallion, Ionna Lee, Dianne Reeves, Umphree’s McGee, Robyn Hitchcock, Patterson Hood, The War and Treaty, Madame Gandhi and more.
Arab Strap’s new single “The Turning of Our Bones,” is “all about resurrection and shagging,” they say. It’s the first new music from Scottish indie heroes Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton in 15 years.
What will the legacy of today’s young generation be? Finneas strikes a confident note on his poignant new single “What They’ll Say About Us.”
