Category: Digital Music

Listen: Paul Westerberg sings the praises of morning coffee on new rocker 'Come Hither'

Listen: Paul Westerberg sings the praises of morning coffee on new rocker ‘Come Hither’

Leave it to Paul Westerberg to go off-schedule: After a string of Saturday song drops via his anonymous Soundcloud account, the former Replacement snuck out this week’s new song early, releasing “Come Hither,” a rollicking ode to morning coffee, last Wednesday. Stream it right here.

Listen: Peter Hook, Ministry cover Captain Beyond's 'Dancing Madly Backwards' for split 12"

Listen: Peter Hook, Ministry cover Captain Beyond’s ‘Dancing Madly Backwards’ for split 12″

Peter Hook and Ministry have each covered “Dancing Madly Backwards” — a 1972 song by Captain Beyond, a psychedelic hard-rock act that featured members of Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple  — for a split 12-inch single out this month on Cleopatra Records. Hear both versions, and the original, here.

Listen: Gary Numan, 'What God Intended' — 2nd single off forthcoming 'Savage' album

Listen: Gary Numan, ‘What God Intended’ — 2nd single off forthcoming ‘Savage’ album

The release of Gary Numan’s 21st album, Savage (Songs From a Broken World), is now just a little more than a month away, and the former Tubeway Army frontman has offered up the second taste of the new LP in the form of moody single “What God Intended.” Stream it here.

Listen: Billy Bragg sounds climate-change alarm on 'King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood'

Listen: Billy Bragg sounds climate-change alarm on ‘King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood’

Sticking to his plan to release one-off songs inspired by the current political tumult, Billy Bragg has followed his raw, electric “The Sleep of Reason” — which addressed rising nationalism — with a quieter, climate-change themed song called “King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood.” Stream it here.

Listen: The Smiths, 'Frankly Mr. Shankly' — unreleased live take from Milwaukee 1986

Listen: The Smiths, ‘Frankly Mr. Shankly’ — unreleased live take from Milwaukee 1986

The plan to issue a previously unreleased live take of a song off The Smiths’ landmark third album The Queen is Dead continued today with the debut of a live recording of “Frankly Mr. Shankly” from the band’s concert at the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee, Wisc., on Aug. 16, 1986. Stream it here.

'Holy grail' recording surfaces of New Order's scorching ’83 gig at Chicago's Cabaret Metro

‘Holy grail’ recording surfaces of New Order’s scorching ’83 gig at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro

The concert, New Order’s first in Chicago, has become the stuff of legend: At the end of a scorching late-June day in 1983, the band takes the stage at the Cabaret Metro, where a packed crowd drives the on-stage temperature to nearly unbearable heights, knocking out power on-stage mid-set.

Listen: Paul Westerberg gets weird again with 'Oompa' — latest in weekly new song series

Listen: Paul Westerberg gets weird again with ‘Oompa’ — latest in weekly new song series

It’s Saturday, which means time for another Paul Westerberg jam via his anonymous Soundcloud account. And, after a few weeks of increasingly conventional songs, the former Replacements leader veers back into left field for the oddball, seemingly nonsensical “Oompa.” Hear the new song right here.

Listen: The Darling Buds cover The Go-Go's 'Our Lips Are Sealed' for Cassette Store Day

Listen: The Darling Buds cover The Go-Go’s ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ for Cassette Store Day

Reunited U.K. indiepop outfit The Darling Buds have recorded a cover of The Go-Go’s 1981 hit “Our Lips Are Sealed” — written by Jane Wiedlin and The Specials’ Terry Hall — that will be released on the Neon Maniacs compilation on Cassette Store Day this October. Stream the full song right here.

The Dream Syndicate debuts new song 'Glide,' announces December tour of U.S.

The Dream Syndicate debuts new song ‘Glide,’ announces December tour of U.S.

The reunited Dream Syndicate have debuted the second new track off their upcoming album How Did I Find Myself Here? — the band’s first new record in nearly 30 years — and announced a 12-date U.S. tour in support of that release this December. Stream the new song here, and check out tour dates.

Listen: The Smiths, 'The Queen is Dead' —  previously unreleased live recording

Listen: The Smiths, ‘The Queen is Dead’ — previously unreleased live recording

As part of the promotion for this fall’s expanded reissue of The Smiths’ landmark third album The Queen is Dead, previously unreleased live versions of each track on the record will be released each Monday for the next 10 weeks — starting today with the title track. Stream it right here.

Listen: Paul Westerberg debuts new rocker 'Dead Sick Of' — and a Hank Williams cover

Listen: Paul Westerberg debuts new rocker ‘Dead Sick Of’ — and a Hank Williams cover

After dropping three new songs over the last three Saturdays, Paul Westerberg today doubled up, releasing the electric rocker “Dead Sick Of” via his anonymous Soundcloud account, plus a cover of Hank Williams’ “Someday You’ll Call My Name.” Listen to both right here.

Cindy Wilson of The B-52s to release solo debut, tour this fall — hear 1st single 'Mystic'

Cindy Wilson of The B-52s to release solo debut, tour this fall — hear 1st single ‘Mystic’

Cindy Wilson, one of the founding vocalists of Athens, Ga., favorites The B-52s, will release her debut solo album — the electro-flavored Change — on Kill Rock Stars this fall and head out on what she’s calling an “unprecedented multimedia concert tour” of North America. Stream the first single here.

Listen: Paul Westerberg's 'Feelin' Good' on twangy new song — 3rd from mystery project

Listen: Paul Westerberg’s ‘Feelin’ Good’ on twangy new song — 3rd from mystery project

For the third Saturday in a row, Paul Westerberg has released a new song via his anonymous Soundcloud account — and this time it’s a twangy, acoustic shuffle called “Felin’ Good” that’s the most conventional of the batch of new songs he’s released over the course of this month. Stream it here.