Courtney Barnett: Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party

Summing up the weekend vibe (or maybe even adult life) is Courtney Barnett’s “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party,” and the Melbourne singer-songwriter shared the message with Londoners this week in a surprise live set outside Camden Town tube station. With lyrics like “I wanna go out / but I wanna stay home,” the lefty guitarist says out loud what a …

How To Dress Well: Precious Love

How To Dress Well’s gorgeous, lush album What Is This Heart? has passed its one-year anniversary, but he’s released a video for one of the record’s standouts, “Precious Love” (the one which cleverly samples hold music from Cisco). The casual video sees HTDW (aka Tom Krell) lounging on a couch as he and his pals perform the track, and was made to say thank you …

Shigeto: Pulse

Having stayed quiet for the past two years while touring and working on other projects (like forming the jazz quartet High Risk), Detroit-based Shigeto has resurfaced with the beautifully composed instrumental electronic track “Pulse.” With vocal samples and high-pitched hits adding to the intricate percussion, Shigeto’s polyrhythms make it difficult to locate a strong foundation to cling to, and instead push the listener continually forward. …