• Shamir – “Our Song”

    Shamir – “Our Song”

    The indie pop polymath’s latest single from ‘Homo Anxietatem’ uses his personal effect to make a song that will always stands out against the rest of convention.

  • SPELLLING – “Under the Sun”

    SPELLLING – “Under the Sun”

    Even if we can’t physically see it, the cosmic art pop songwriter brings us closer to what might be out there on the first single from ‘SPELLLING & the Mystery School’.

  • Sarah Mary Chadwick – “Looked Just Like Jesus”

    Sarah Mary Chadwick – “Looked Just Like Jesus”

    A pretty great imitation of how you can go about finding a reason to enjoy the moment out there in this wretched world from one of cynical songwriting’s finest.

  • Recommended EP: Lifeguard – ‘Dressed In Trenches’

    Recommended EP: Lifeguard – ‘Dressed In Trenches’

    The young Chicago rockers’ first EP for Matador Records reps the next generation of a community not only in a state of evolution, but a hungry desire to build new branches from it.

  • Shamir – “Crime”

    Shamir – “Crime”

    The latest (accidental) single from ‘Homo Anxietatum’ puts the focus back on Shamir’s bold sense of fashion choices.

  • blur – “St. Charles Square”

    blur – “St. Charles Square”

    The second single from the Brit-pop luminaries’ 9th album, ‘The Ballad of Darren’, howls to a certain age in niche alternative where zonked out guitars and malady hand-in-hand with a fixation on the existential doldrums is its own kind of rage.

  • Mary Jane Dunphe – “Stage of Love”

    Mary Jane Dunphe – “Stage of Love”

    The lead single from the NYC-based songwriter’s solo debut is the body electric fully powered on.

  • Restraining Order – “Another Better Day”

    Restraining Order – “Another Better Day”

    Tomorrow best be a better day, or else the WMass and Connecticut hardcore punk band will fix that problem on the latest preview off ‘Locked In Time’.

  • Recommended Album: Narrow Head – ‘Moments of Clarity’

    Recommended Album: Narrow Head – ‘Moments of Clarity’

    The collective alternative energy on the Houston band’s third LP sends their rock even higher without letting go of the heaviness.

  • Empty Country – “Pearl”

    Empty Country – “Pearl”

    The new single from the former Cymbals Eat Guitars frontman and co. unfolds through a dark lyrical montage toiled up in prophecy, hallucinations, and the sounds of classic alternative rock.

  • Recommended Album: bar italia – ‘Tracey Denim’

    Recommended Album: bar italia – ‘Tracey Denim’

    The touchstones from indie rock and post-punk past are there in bar italia’s every steps, but at the same time, there’s an art of vanishing into it all.

  • Olivia Rodrigo – “vampire”

    Olivia Rodrigo – “vampire”

    If ‘SOUR’ was all misery business, then perhaps “vampire” is Olivia Rodrigo’s way of welcoming us to the looming black parade…


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