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The prolific garage rocker unpacks his collaborative new LP Chrome—in addition to filling us in on an aborted musical tragicomedy about a clown he once pitched to Tim Heidecker.

After documenting his recovery from cancer on 2024’s Dulling the Horns, John Ross returns with an album that reassures us that healing is always within our grasp.

After a decade together, the Chicago psych-doom quartet craft a second album for Sargent House that’s as deadly serious in story as it is execution.

On their collaborative debut, Islands’ Nick Thorburn and Ratatat’s Mike Stroud mostly adhere to a conventional pop format and rarely deviate into either artist’s inherent weirdness.

At the ripe age of 50, the Leeds post-punk/alt-country collective revisits last year’s under-the-radar Horror LP as a dub record with the aid of Pere Ubu’s Tony Maimone.

Released just a few months after the more metal-leaning Love Is Not Enough, the Boston group course-corrects by balancing the scales with hardcore on their second LP of 2026.

With their seventh LP, the heavy psych-rockers demonstrate what experimental majesty a band can create when they’ve spent two decades working to play together on the same wavelength.

The synthpop outfit celebrates 20 years together by propping up their lesser known material, affirming the value of these cutting-room-floor songs that the band knew they had all along.

Ahead of the band’s North American tour supporting their new LP Lost on You, Brianna Collins shares how the pop-punk band continues to blaze new trails after 20 years together.

The 14 songs featured on the Columbus native’s second album may be as short as the ones on its lo-fi predecessor, but they’re far more fleshed out with catchier and on-point rock music.

The spacey grunge trio’s fourth post-reunion LP avoids trends in favor of songs that penetrate the heart—it’s as if they’ve finally found the magic they’ve had in themselves from the start.

James Petralli talks celebrating 20 years of the band, maintaining a positive outlook, and more ahead of the release of his 13th album, 13.

Vibrant, dexterous, and unrelentingly compelling, the Seattle hardcore-punks’ fourth album sees them mature into a band adept at writing songs lasting more than two minutes.

With his fifth album, the Swedish songwriter considers his deepest of existential queries while maintaining the effervescent, seductive sound that’s the strongest through line in his career.

Bryan Manning speaks to the eight-year gap between the experimental black metal band’s last album and Hidden Fires Burn Hottest—and shares what his dream concert would entail.

Jacob Allen breaks down each track on his latest experimental journey into trip-hop and alt-R&B, out now via Play It Again Sam.

Gently playful with a fire burning underneath, the artist’s first record in seven years signifies her devotion to the craft of making music, whether the light in her career is burning bright or dim.

The debut album from Midwestern bedroom-pop songwriter Chase Walsh consistently feels authentic as it addresses grief and anxiety as universal truths.

After a tour with The Decemberists and a prominent song sync, the Chicago-based indie rockers talk dealing with more exposure upon the release of their new LP Singin’ to an Empty Chair.

The Blacklisted offshoot’s debut album embraces the joy of hardcore while dipping into something doomier with haunting production that eschews bright and clean sounds.