Color Green’s been sneaking onto the speakers around here since their first EP, a gauzy transmission that felt like it was beamed across the canyon from another era. In the last few…
Along with Flowertown, Cindy, and April Magazine, Tony Jay closes the circle of Bay Area bands that wander through the fogged end of the indie pop scene. The announcement of a new…
They don’t make ’em more entrenched than Brooklyn’s Weak Signal. If there needed to be a flagship band for battered NY rock in 2024, Weak Signal should be at the top of…
It’s likely that, if you know Zoots Houston, it’s backing up some of the East Coast’s more exploratory names. Houston’s been found beside Ryley Walker, Jazz improviser Fredrick Longberg-Holm, and playing on…
Following a pre-release single that got anticipation high, the debut album from BASIC is announced today. The band brings together Philly’s best with Chris Forsyth and Nick Millevoi tangling guitars while Mikel…
The second single out of the upcoming new album from The Medium pushes away from the country touches of the title track, embracing the band’s power pop core. “Golden Angels” winds itself…
Can’t beat RVNG for the best in bucolic, and they offer up a slow simmer from Dialect this week. Andrew PM Hunt reinvents his sound under the name, creating an album that…
Pushing its way to the top of my anticipated list for the fall, Chime School lets out a new single from the upcoming LP, The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel. Atop…
It’s been a while since I’ve heard a new recording from Ned Collette, but after shows around the US last year (including a beautiful set at Deep In The Valley) he’s fresh…
Typically a solo feature, but as the core of Color Green has always been the duo of Corey Madden and Noah Kohll, it’s nice to get the double perspective on this one.…
I’ve been waiting on this one for some time. NY jazz-psych ensemble Emergency Group has been bringing the higher forms to the East Coast for a while now, already eking out a…
Elkhorn’s been known to inhabit these pages pretty frequently, a psych-folk frontrunner for the better part of the past decade. As they embark on their third album for the year, including the…
Another strummer out of the upcoming Sad Eyed Beatniks hits the streams today. As Kevin Linn gears up for a new album from Meritorio, the singles have found him peaking just out…
I’ve long been keeping an ear towards the psych enclave in Copenhagen centered around El Paraiso Records. The label’s been bridging the psych and jazz camps in Europe, with the epicenter of…
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