Audio Antihero

Philadelphia’s The Noisy, fronted by poet Sara Mae, premiere their stunning new video, “Tony Soprano,” directed by Sam Cush. “It’s meant to talk about the collective experience of grief and I think having my friends sing on it, my friends star in it and eat the food I made, just felt like a particularly poetic and special experience. This one means a great deal to me.”

New Thing, the scarily accomplished debut album from Avery Friedman, inhabits a complex emotional realm where nervousness can coexist with (and inform) ideas of sexiness, sadness, tenderness. Her world is fragile but appears to have arrived fully-formed.

Frog’s Daniel Bateman is (still) one of the world’s finest, most singularly gifted songwriters. 1000 Variations on the Same Song might dip liberally into America’s grimy gutters or get its sustenance from heartbreak, but I still can’t listen without a giant lunatic grin.

‘Safe Then Sorry’ may only be the second CIAO MALZ EP, the solo project of Brooklyn-based songwriter Malia DelaCruz, but it’s a real gem, and it already seems likely that DelaCruz has a big future.

Our Song of the Day featured on a 2011 release from ‘Mr Folkadelica’ Jack Hayter titled Sucky Tart. The EP was released on the quite brilliant and underestimated label Audio Antihero.