The Reds, Pinks And Purples – “Let’s Pretend We’re Not In Love” [Video]
The Reds, Pinks & Purples have shared the third single/video from its second LP for Slumberland (on Tough Love in Europe) Summer at Land’s End, … Read more
Elvis Costello & The Imposters: The Boy Named If [Album Review]
Elvis Costello & The Imposters The Boy Named IfEMI/Capitol Records [2022] Forty five years and 37 albums – give or take if we count all … Read more
M Ross Perkins: E Pluribus M Ross (Opaque Blue Wax | 750 Copies)
Dayton, Ohio’s M Ross Perkins is back with his sophomore full-length, E Pluribus M Ross. The album, his first for Colemine/Karma Chief Records, is another … Read more
The Dream Syndicate: What Can I Say? No Regrets… Out Of The Grey + Live, Demos & Outtakes [Album Review]
The Dream SyndicateWhat Can I Say? No Regrets… Out Of The Grey + Live, Demos & OuttakesFire Records [2022] Ask someone if they know the … Read more
Guerilla Toss – “Cannibal Capital” [Video]
Sub Pop has welcomed Guerilla Toss to their iconic roster of artists. The label will be releasing their latest effort, Famously Alive on March 25th. … Read more
Fire Track: Placebo – “Try Better Next Time”
Placebo share “Try Better Next Time” from the band’s forthcoming album, Never Let Me Go (March 25, Rise Records). It follows recently released new tracks … Read more
The Wombats: Fix Yourself, Not The World [Album Review]
The WombatsFix Yourself, Not The WorldAWAL [2022] While The Wombats, who got their start in Liverpool, have absorbed British pop and indie rock influences from … Read more
Methyl Ethel – “Proof” feat. Stella Donnelly [Video]
Methyl Ethel—the musical project of Western Australian artist Jake Webb—announced its new album, Are You Haunted?, to be released February 18th on Future Classic. The … Read more
Karfagen: Land Of Green And Gold [Album Review]
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Fire Track: Angel Olsen – “Something On Your Mind” (Karen Dalton Cover)
As part of their 50th anniversary celebration for Karen Dalton’s 1971 masterpiece, In My Own Time, celebrated archival reissue label Light in the Attic (LITA) … Read more
Adia Victoria: A Southern Gothic [Album Review]
Adia VictoriaA Southern GothicCanvasback Music [2021] The third album from Nashville-based singer/songwriter Adia Victoria, A Southern Gothic embodies everything that title suggests. Vibrating thanks to … Read more
Destroyer – “Tintoretto, It’s For You” [Video]
Canadian band Destroyer announced their 13th studio album, with lead single “Tintoretto, It’s For You” and its David Galloway-directed video out now. The album, titled … Read more
Failure: Wild Type Droid [Album Review]
FailureWild Type DroidFailure Music [2021] Failure, the L.A.-based trio of Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards and Kellii Scott, have been considered one of the more influential … Read more
Fire Track: The Smile – “You Will Never Work In Television Again”
The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have revealed their debut single “You Will … Read more
Dion: Stomping Ground [Album Review]
Dion Stomping GroundKeeping The Blues Alive Records [2021] It was quite a surprise in 2020 when the then 80 year old Dion Dimucci, who had … Read more
Kids On A Crime Spree – “Goods Get Got” [Video]
Bay Area band, Kids On A Crime Spree, have a new video for “Goods Get Got.” The track is included on their new album, Fall … Read more
Elbow: Flying Dream 1 [Album Review]
ElbowFlying Dream 1Polydor Records [2021] The ninth studio album from acclaimed British band, Elbow, has the gentle, dreamy feel of a long, reflective quarantine nap. … Read more
El Ten Eleven – “Meta Metta” [Video]
El Ten Eleven, the SoCal duo whose 2020 triple-LP Tautology series presciently and ambitiously put the arc of human life to music, return with a joyously unrestrained … Read more
Fire Track: Guided By Voices – “Excited Ones”
Guided By Voices are set to unleash upon the world their 35th album, Crystal Nuns Cathedral, on March 4, 2022. This record comes to you … Read more
Snail Mail: Valentine [Album Review]
Snail MailValentineMatador Records [2021] As the “best of year” lists – here at The Fire Note, and everywhere music fans and music critics connect – … Read more
Black Country, New Road – “Concorde” [Video]
Black Country, New Road have shared a video for their latest single “Concorde”, the third track to be taken from their anticipated second album, Ants … Read more
Fire Track: EELS – “Amateur Hour”
Ahead of the release of their fourteenth studio album Extreme Witchcraft, out January 28 via PIAS and the band’s own E Works Records, EELS are … Read more
The Blazing Top 50 Albums Of 2021
2021 was great year in music! Solid release after solid release made this year’s list one of the hardest to put together in TFN’s 15 … Read more