There are too many good things happening today, it’s hard to keep up. After a stunning album of vocal and instrumental pieces last year for Feeding Tube, Joesph Allred is already on…
An unexpected new EP rises today from RSTB faves SUSS. Leading the wave of ambient country that’s been rising up from the desert sands, the band’s first offering from the EP, Heat…
With each new release, Austin’s Chronophage leap handily over their previous efforts, putting so much distance between them that it hardly feels like the same band. Their debut was a fuzz-pocked four…
One of the most fun things about Matt Valentine’s Wet Tuna has been the periphery releases. Alongside three essential albums he’s been releasing Bandcamp EPs and singles that often find joy in…
Sun Cru is set to give an LP release to Zephyr later this month, a previously cassette-only release from Kyle Field’s Little Wings. The album was recorded as a merch table gem…
Every new single out of the upcoming third album from The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness is a crisp breeze of pop perfection. The latest adds in some subtle slides to the…
The always evolving El Paraiso Records offers up another in their continuing series of psychedelic jazz records. Riffing on both the lineups of their Chicago Odense Ensemble, which found Jonas Munk and…
I came to The Wave Pictures roundabout from members’ inclusion in The Surfing Magazines. That band have put out two solid albums that expand on the noir surf and gnarled indie that…
I already wrote up the single on this, but noticed that there’s an equally charming vid for the cut as well. As this Color Green LP sits high on my list of…
Nothing but earworms on this new Michael Rault, and his latest single, “Right On Time,” only serves to prove the point. The song sways a bit more psychedelic that the rest of…
I didn’t get in on the first single off this one, but the record has been creeping into my rotation lately and the opener “Grieving,” is one of the best of the…
RSTB faves The Umbrellas follow up their Slumberland debut with a new single that splits release between a bevy of indie pop outlets – Meritorio, Fastcut, and Tear Jerk all have a…
On Songs From a Stolen Guitar, Joyner answers the question, “what happens when you point the painter away from the vista?” Always a teller of tales, a shadowbox storyteller with a painter’s…
The singles from the upcoming Joan Shelley album, The Spur, cast a shadow of an album that’s deeply rooted in restoration, anchored in a feeling of safe harbor. Burnt out by touring,…
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