Sometimes there’s just a band that skates by like a missed connection. In ’03/’04 there were a lot of loose ends coming together, laying a lot of the noise, folk, and indie…
Northwest faves Abronia return today with another searing single and news of a new album in tow. “New Imposition” catapults off of the band’s Eastern-angled psychedelics, hung heavy with the pound of…
I finally got the chance to see Leah Senior this year on a tour that brought her through with Simon Joyner, an absolutely captivating live show that only serves to deepen the…
Never ones to miss, El Paraiso brings another excellent new band into the fold. The label’s often a bit cross-pollinated, swapping members of one band to another, usually revolving around the core…
The second half of 2025 is stacking up the essential reissues, so don’t get wrapped up in trying to tie a bow on the year just yet. RSTB faves Torn & Frayed…
The longer SML exists, the further they get from identifiable forms. The band was launched out of the Enfield Tennis Academy’s roundtable of improvisers, scratching out discordant jazz that often times hinted…
A softly slung batch of Cosmic Americana out of the Canadian wilds hits today. The band’s had a string of independent releases, each dressed up in the guise of private press treasures,…
Aussie throwback upstarts The Gnomes first surfaced here in solo guise as the project of the band’s songwriter Jay Millar, simply dubbed Gnome. Millar tapped into the raw bite of rock when…
It’s a great year for aughts folk projects shut away from light for years. Following the excellent issue of Grass’ sole LP, another gem ekes out of the woodwork from the Twisted…
A second single slips out of the upcoming debut from L.A.’s Sunday Mourners. A bit more tempered than their last, “There’s A Garden In You” takes a tack towards VU tension. The…
A gentle tone and switch to the electric offers up a new shade for guitarist Tashi Dorji. For his third album with Drag City he’s pushed aside the frayed acoustic improvisations in…
connection to local folk forms, while following in the footsteps of his Tropicália forefathers to fold in influences from across the musical landscape. While Sessa’s previous albums haven’t been exactly sparse, they…
Aussie faves Screensaver let loose a third single from their upcoming album, Three Lens Approach. Boiled in a bath of synth-pop and post-punk, “Telepathic Apathy” tenses and twists through rhythm, propelled by…
I’ve done a few of these this year, a 15-year look back at albums that definitely didn’t get their due. With the clock turning a decade and a half on this one…
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