It’s shaping up to be another banner year over at Slumberland. After the announcement of a bounty of reissues from Rocketship, and Rachel Love, plus an expanded version of Love’s group Railcard’s…
A pitch perfect record of power pop rises up out of Detroit, a gift gilded in honeyed harmonies and delivered with a wink and a sneer. The band skips the ’90s revival…
A couple of days late on this, but the new single from Visible Cloaks is a perfect accompaniment to the crystal corridors of winter. The band returns for their third album, a…
Another huge one from this week finds respective legends Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer connecting for an album, forged as a series of requiems for the children of Gaza. The Sonic Youth…
A new video from the emotionally fraught, and ultimately triumphant album from West Coast multi-instrumentalist Aaron Shaw arrives today. Shaw, a collaborator of Anderson Paak, Herbie Hancock, Saul Williams and Carlos Niño,…
Recent collaborations between RSTB faves Elkhorn and Mike Gangloff helped to incubate a new band that sees light this year. Gangloff (Pelt, Eight Point Star) joins the always excellent Jesse Sheppard (Elkhorn,…
It’s a good time to get into Lewsberg side bands. If you missed out on the excellent debut from Arie van Vliet’s The Hobknobs last year, catch up with the new outfit…
A change in direction for Sean Conrad (Channelers, Skymimds) finds him emerging from the crystalline caves of ambient and synth work for a psych-pop record that burrows into the baroque. The Inner…
Another gem out of the gazed and glazed enclave at Cherub Dream Records (Figure Eight, Welcome Straberry, Pocket Full of Crumbs). The label turns to Modesto, CA’s hazy Sloome for a new…
Another favorite returns for a well-needed run in 2026. Kevin Dehan’s Cactus Lee has traversed the indie country landscape, from raucous bar-burndown sets on the stage to homespun albums that wrap their…
This one’s a lovely surprise this morning, a new collaboration between Tanya Donnelly (Belly, Throwing Muses) and Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine). The pair explore the hushed aura of medieval music, given a…
Sneaking out last week, a new single from RSTB favorites The Thorn embraces the damp dredge of winter. The band, essentially a shuffled lineup of Large Plants, the post Wolf People band…
The a-side from this has cropped up a couple of times on the site already, making its way into the recent power pop mixtape and this month’s radio show, but today marks…
A timely release from The Olympians hits this week. The band’s new album finds them exploring a bouquet of swoonworthy orchestral soul. Toby Pazner, along with the assembled Olympians, turns Greco-Roman myth…
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