Sylvan Esso Is Feeling ‘Hot’ On New Song Sylvan Esso (photo: Graham Tolbert) Weeks after unveiling plans for its independently curated Good Moon Festival, the Durham, N.C., Sylvan Esso has debuted “Hot Slob,” the duo’s first new music of 2026 and a clear signal that a new album cycle is beginning to take shape. The […]

Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinnery Saluting Yoko Ono Yoko Ono in London in 2013 (photo: Ben A. Pruchnie / Getty Images). Yoko Ono’s music is getting a rare large-scale live reintroduction with a lineup featuring a host of indie all-stars. As part of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the 93-year-old artist’s first solo museum exhibition […]

Sylvan Esso Revives Hometown Good Moon Fest Sylvan Esso (photo: Elizabeth Weinberg). Sylvan Esso is bringing back its hometown festival Good Moon this fall, expanding the event into a multi-venue takeover of downtown Durham, N.C., after a year’s hiatus. Organized alongside the duo’s Psychic Hotline collective and label, the biennial festival returns Oct. 8–10 with […]