Stereogum — In 2017, Cold Specks released the album Fool’s Paradise . Today, the Toronto musician is finally back with “How It Feels,” her first new material since then. more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex). Good time girl. Read Cold Specks in MAGNET on Poly: The post Happy Birthday Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex) appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Howlin’ Wolf. All night boogie. Read Cold Specks in MAGNET on Mr. Chester Arthur Burnett: The post Happy Birthday Howlin’ Wolf appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott’s, LondonThe young American trumpeter led a set of scalding jazz improv that veered between lyrical delicacy and fierce dramaThere was a wilder edginess to Ambrose Akinmusire’s opening set at Ronnie Scott’s than form... more info

Stereogum — Cold Specks is Ladan Hussein, a Toronto musician who makes heavy, intense art-soul. Back in 2014, she impressed us with Neuroplasticity , an album that included a few collaborations with Swans frontman Michael Gira. And now she's announced that she'... more info

New York Times — Hear 10 new songs selected by our pop critics from Algiers, Sad13, Cold Specks and more. more info

Stereogum — Last year Cold Specks (aka Al Spx) put out another phenomenal doom-soul record called Neuroplasticity. Spx’s voice is a scratchy, brilliant thing that fits right alongside soul legends, but if you’re wondering how the doom element factors into th... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, Canada's annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Drake, The New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, METZ, Cold Specks, Buffy... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sufjan Stevens already revealed "No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross" off his bare-bones new album, Carrie & Lowell (due 3/31 via Asthmatic Kitty), and now he's put out another, "Should Have Known Better." Listen below. He'll be... more info

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