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First Listen
OK Cool Illustrate Their Polished Lo-Fi Sound with DIY Video for New Single “Safety Car”

The Chicago duo of Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist Waller will release their debut album Chit Chat on August 1.

June 23, 2025
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Tropical Fuck Storm’s Latest Psychedelic Opus “Fairyland Codex”

A very candid Gareth Liddiard shares how neurosis and delusion helped to define the Australian collective’s fourth LP, out now via Fire Records.

June 20, 2025
First Listen
San Gabriel Confronts FOMO on Vibrant New Synthpop Tune “Alone in My Room”

Former Whiskey Shivers member James Bookert also shares a live performance video of the track from Emigrant Lake in Oregon.

June 20, 2025
First Listen
Blush Explore Unholy Obsession in Video for New Single “X My Heart”

Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever, the Singaporean dream-pop trio’s first album for Kanine Records, will arrive August 1.

June 18, 2025
First Listen
All Under Heaven and High. Team Up for Split Single via Sunday Drive Records

The New Jersey shoegaze bands’ respective tracks “Moving On” and “Someone You Adore” are out today.

June 17, 2025
Track by Track
Theo Croker Walks Us Through the Sophisticated Emotions Behind “Dream Manifest”

The trumpeter and jazz-fusion composer breaks down his spiritual new project, out now via Dom Recs.

June 13, 2025
First Listen
Ramonda Hammer Offer Up a Lifeline with New Track “The Panic”

The LA trios return with their second new single from their forthcoming EP.

June 13, 2025
Playlist
Quinton Barnes’ Queer Voices in Hip-Hop Playlist

With the arrival of Black Noise, the Montreal-based artist’s third record in nine months, Barnes shares 11 boldly pioneering songs within the realm of rap.

June 12, 2025
First Listen
Common Holly Speaks to the Fragility of Human Life on New Single “The Wood From the Sail”

Brigitte Naggar’s first new album in six years Anything Glass arrives June 13 via Keeled Scales and Paper Bag Records.

June 12, 2025
First Listen
Jamie Lidell Searches for a Sense of Certainty on New Single “How Do I Land”

The piano-centric Places of Unknowing, the songwriter’s first solo record in nearly a decade, arrives this summer.

June 11, 2025
Playlist
Sedona’s “Getting Into Heaven” Influences Playlist

After releasing her debut solo album, the LA-based songwriter shares how Liz Phair, Local H, Ween, and more helped shape her vision.

June 10, 2025
First Listen
Native Sun Are Down to Clown in Video for New Single “Squash”

The Brooklyn rockers returned earlier this year with new material teasing a future release.

June 10, 2025
Track by Track
Black Moth Super Rainbow Walk Us Through Their Characteristically Disorienting New LP “Soft New Magic Dream”

Tom Fec shares how each song on the band’s first new album in eight years “took either years or a few days” to write.

June 06, 2025
Track by Track
CIVIC Walk Us Through Each Track on Their New Noise-Rock Death March “Chrome Dipped”

The Australian group’s third LP is out today via ATO Records.

May 30, 2025
First Listen
Imaad Wasif Teams Up with Best Coast’s Bobb Bruno and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Brian Chase for Bonnie “Prince” Billy Cover

“I See a Darkness” marks the first new music released through Wasif’s Voidist Records, which will now be home to the artist’s back catalog.

May 30, 2025
First Listen
Yumi Zouma Find Strength in Simplicity on New Single “Blister”

The Y2K-invoking track serves as the indie-pop group’s second release via their new label home of Nettwerk Music Group.

May 29, 2025
First Listen
81355 Share a Poem for the Unsung with “Heart of Stone”

A video for the track lands ahead of emcees Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck and producer Sedcairn’s second album, Bad Dogs, dropping July 11 via Joyful Noise.

May 28, 2025
First Look
Sarah Register Adds Another Dimension to “Does It Hurt” with Experimental Visual

Formerly one half of Talk Normal, Register’s debut double-single is out now.

May 27, 2025
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Sparks’ Idiosyncratic New LP “MAD!”

Ron Mael shares which cultural figures and Parisian neighborhoods may have subtly shaded the duo’s 26th album.

May 23, 2025
First Look
S.3.R (Divino Niño’s Camilo Medina) Syncs to the Psychedelic Rhythms of NYC in “Abismo del Horror” Visual

Out today, his experimental debut solo EP N?C succinctly encapsulates his recent relocation from Chicago to New York City.

May 23, 2025
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