Daily Newsletter, April 11, 2024

One of the better electro-pop albums of this year so far.

Listening to Still House Plants can feel like witnessing a song come together in real time. Years ago, the UK-based trio would open sets with “Pleasures,” a track from their landmark 2020 album Fast Edit, by having drummer David Kennedy’s kit all over the stage. Once he set everything up, it would cue the band to start the next song. To begin their concerts like this was a symbol of the band’s driving force; they write music, first and foremost, as a group of best friends who trust each other, and their tracks are a way to challenge themselves, to grow through communication, and to push through life’s difficulties.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will announce its 2024 class at the end of April. These musical artists should have already been inducted and have not been.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Critical adoration has followed Julia Holter ever since she left behind her classical education to make sprawling, experimental albums based on French novels and Greek tragedies. Set to release her sixth record, she speaks with Annabel Nugent about the playfulness in her music, the ‘crazy hormones’ of pregnancy – and why it feels ‘fake’ for her to lament being a woman in a male-dominated field

Jaša Bužinel shares his recent highlights in electronic music, from top-notch techno to politically charged experimental beats, bagpipe drones, ominous breakcore, high-tech bass and more

We look at the current music venue crisis and wonder whether the rise bedroom pop has played a role beyond the obvious economic factors?

Signed around the same time as the Sex Pistols after David Gilmour mentored the 16-year-old’s “remarkable talent,” a durable paradox emerged

Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film The Conversation was a passion project – and its tale of a surveillance expert disturbed by what he hears hits even harder in 2024.

Your home isn’t a concert venue, and it wasn’t built for sound. Here are three easy ways to fix that in case your struggling with acoustics.

This Friday will see the release of the latest title in the Red Hot Organization's 34-year-strong music series – a Meshell Ndegeocello-curated tribute to