All three players on the upcoming Gerycz/Powers/Rolin LP are heading into at least their second essential album of 2021. Riding high off of recent releases by Powers/Rolin duo and Monocot, the trio…
Having already released one of the year’s best LPs solo, Rosali Middleman aims for a second slot on the tally with the debut from her duo Monocot with Jayson Gerycz (Cloud Nothings).…
Ringing out in an explosion of Paisley Pop, the new single from veteran psych-poppers The Prefab Messiahs pairs an infectious chorus with humming leads. The Byrds-ian jangles are pulled through the prism,…
I’ve been remiss in mentioning this compilation of San Francisco band Flowertown’s excellent EPs. Originally issued over the course of 2020 on cassette, the Theresa Street and eponymous EPs are bound together…
On their last album WEEED moved beyond the stoner rock tags that get hung on them to push further into Cosmic Americana, morotik ripples, and spacious psychedelia. It seems that they’re only…
The enigmatic debut from Canadian songwriter Kass Richards snuck out at the tail end of last year on Good Cry Records and just as quietly sold out. Thankfully, though, it met the…
The last few offerings from Frank Maston have focused on his penchant for library funk, synth slink, and all manner of instrumental bliss. He’s breaking that mold with the second single from…
There’s a blurred vision aesthetic to the debut from The Holy Family. That particular vision comes from the mind of David J. Smith and over the course of his eponymous LP for…
Few things feel like summer more than a new Woods song. The band’s hazy folk-pop proclivities dust up pastoral hues and the kind of blissful harmonies that lend themselves well dazed moments…
The slow simmer of Zelma Stone’s “Gift Horse” builds from the moment it flickers to life. Over an arid guitar line, the band’s Chloe Studebaker lays out an incantation on grace, acceptance,…
I mentioned this single a couple of weeks back when the album went up for pre-order but a new video gives another chance to bring the great Tobacco City to the forefront…
Following his album Cedars for Temporary Residence, LTD, Stuart Hyatt deconstructed the album and rebuilt tracks as instrumentals, letting the earthen air stir a bit deeper and darker than before. The album…
It’s been a moment since I’ve had a new Hidden Gems, but with a deluge of new releases in the last couple of weeks, things are back in business. This week’s comes…
Following several years of solid mayhem with Wireheads, Australian songwriter Dom Trimboli has moved his madness under the awning of Dom & The Wizards. The band let out a few sneak-up singles…
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