It’s a pretty packed year for power pop with the bulk of the best leaning heavy on the soft touch and tender hearts of the first wave, before the bite of punk…
While I know they have a warm spot in many aughts hearts, and despite a penchant for fuzz-crusted punk in the Blogspot days, I never hit deep on Lumpy and the Dumpers.…
Dug up after 40 years adrift, the world finally gets a chance to tuck into a full and formal collection from Scottish band The Catburgers. The band formed in Edinburgh in 1985,…
Got a fun new single today from Portland band Big Top. The band features Elyse Schrock (Blues Lawyer) and Richard Alex Olsen (Venkman). The pair also run Playland Studio which brings a…
The week always ends a bit better with a new single from Sylvie on the speakers. The band releases their second peek into New Season, the upcoming debut from the band, following…
I’ve had this one on the headphones for a little while, but it’s not the kind of record that can be absorbed easily. The third in a trilogy of works by site…
A second single swings in from recent RSTB fave Tom Henry. I came late to his last album but it stuck around the turntable after some love from year end lists brought…
Rising RSTB favorites The Gnomes return with news of another EP and the band proves that the short format is a great medium for them. Like their last EP, this one looks…
A hell of a year already for Ethan Miller, who’s got a year-ender on his hands with the third album from The Odyssey Cult, and now opens up the second killer single…
Another ethereal release lands from Andy White under his Andy Boay banner. One half of Tonstartssbandht with his brother Edwin, the Boay has always shared a lot of DNA with the band.…
Following a solid EP that caught hold of some cosmic country winds back in ’23, Canadian songwriter Emmett Morris has been stringing out some singles leading up to a new LP release,…
Mountain Movers sprung this one with short notice just a couple of weeks ago, an instrumental follow-up to their massive undertaking, Walking After Dark. The 2024 album was one of the last…
Another sterling album keeps up the flawless run from Rich Ruth. Following his two impeccable Third Man releases and jaunt with Spencer Cullum and Sean Thompson as Shrunken Elvis, this release finds…
Some amazing Monday news, longtime RSTB favorites Whitney’s Playland are back with a new 12”! The band kicks it off with the title track, “Bottled Lightning,” a hazy new cut that sharpens…
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