Releasing August 22 via Last Gang / MNRK Travels to an Iron Age Nightclub on “Bog People” Single + Video Out Now Today, Yeasayer co-founder Anand Wilder announces his sophomore solo album Psychic Lessons, coming out August 22 via Last Gang / MNRK. Known for shaping the experimental indie pop of the 2010s with the critically-acclaimed Brooklyn band, Wilder taps back into the psychedelic rock and electro-pop that made the group so successful for an LP that finds him continuing to expand upon his genre-bending sound. Also today, Wilder releases new single “Bog People,” which uses fuzzy guitar, distorted vocals...

Following the success of their 2022 debut Forever Sometimes, LA indie rockers Dear Boy return today with "Kelly Green," the first single from their forthcoming sophomore album, on Last Gang Records.  With its swirling vocals and inescapable grooves, "Kelly Green" weaves together shoegaze, trip-hop and ‘90s alternative into Dear Boy’s singular sound. Jangly / fuzzed-out guitars and visceral Southern California poetry. It's the sound of a band rediscovering pure, creative joy—confident, liberated, and utterly captivating. "Kelly Green is about a deep breath," the band explains, “the one you take before your life changes. Before you tell someone how you really...

JUNO, UK MVA, and Prism Prize-nominated Toronto producer and musical polymath Harrison has teamed up with saxophonist Jaleel Shaw (best known for performing with the likes of Robert Glasper, Nate Smith, etc.) for his new, whimsical single, “You hate Jazz?”.  This single is the follow-up to Harrison’s last collaboration with Shaw, “Feels Like Yesterday.”  Harrison’s last album, Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees, was his second JUNO-nominated album. “I knew I wanted to just make what I thought was cool, regardless of it being cheesy,” he says of the piano-centred compositions, which he worked on in his Toronto studio....

Amy Millan’s anticipated new solo album I Went To Find You–her first in over 15 years–arrived today via Last Gang Records. Co-written and produced by Jay McCarrol (award-winning musician/composer known for the critically acclaimed 2023 film BlackBerry and 2025 SXSW standout Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie), engineered by Jace Lasek (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wolf Parade), mixed in part by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), recorded at Lost River (an idyllic studio deep in the Laurentian forest), the album has been earning praise and support from NPR Music, Paste, Bandcamp Daily (‘New & Notable’), Brooklyn Vegan (‘Influences’ feature),...

Today, Yeasayer co-founder Anand Wilder releases new single “Appointment in Samarra”, his first solo release since a 2023 ambient album and the followup to his 2022 solo debut I Don’t Know My Words. Opening with the sounds of a harmonium and a flute, the track uses an inevitable confrontation with death as a metaphor for music industry dynamics – “hanging on for dear life” amidst the trials and tribulations of being an artist in today’s landscape. The song also arrives with a kaleidoscopic music video directed by Jordan Fish (MGMT, Chairlift) that was featured at BrooklynVegan who called it “as...