The post Hum Surprise Release New Album Inlet, First LP in 22 Years: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Alternative rock band Hum have returned with the surprise release of their fifth ...

Often times, a reunion album reminds you why you fell in love with a band in the first place, proves they’ve still got it, and helps re-establish the band as a force within an era that they had long ...

The shoegaze rockers enjoyed a solid run in the '90s, issuing four studio albums and scoring the gloriously fuzzed out radio and MTV hit "Stars." But after sales for their final album, 1998's Downward ...

The members of the beloved space-rock band Hum have always followed a unique orbit. While appearing on MTV's 120 Minutes in 1998 to promote the then-new album Downward Is Heavenward, ...

Alternative rock / dream-pop-metal outfit Hum are one of those bands whose legend only grew after they disbanded. Their most recent album, Downward Is Heavenward, came out in 1998 — they broke up two ...

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The morning of June 23, my phone was blowing up with messages from friends: “Have you heard it?” “It’s so good!” “It’s perfect.” “It” is Hum’s Inlet, the biggest surprise album-drop in indie rock ...

We’re still reeling from the fact that Hum — entirely out of nowhere and with no advance warning — dropped their first new album in 22 years, Inlet, on Bandcamp. (Physical copies are coming out August ...

The band Hum formed in 1989 in Urbana, Illinois. Over the next decade, they released four albums and had exactly one big success, the 1995 alt-rock radio hit "Stars." But Hum's impact goes far beyond ...