Perenial RSTB faves and one of the best new bands of the past few years, The Bures Band, returns with another sweetly stung single from their new album, Ozonia. The title track…
A second single from P.P. Rebel, the new outfit from Paris Rebel Richens (Parsnip, Hierophants) brings a sunnier sound, less threaded with the VU veneer of the first. Instead “Ascension” leans into…
A few months ago I wrote about a tour CD from Yr Knives, the excellent new Chicago post-rock rippers who’d been on a tear opening for The Messthetics. The live cuts on…
The sophomore album from NC outfit RIBS hits like a sack of rocks to the small of the back. It’s a brutal, often brittle record that’s made for the malevolence of these…
Another exemplary notch by Misha Panfilov into 2026. Following his collaboration with Tomo Katsurada (already a 2026 essential) the Estonian composer is back with a new album of breezy pastoral jazz, hopefully…
Last year The Goods set their hold on power pop with a sterling debut. The project of Rob Good (also of indie pop faves Ryli), the first record held tight to the…
So it happens, just as we round onto the 20th anniversary of Comets on Fire’s swan song, Avatar, and the pangs of longing for their absence grow louder, there’s a new era…
Collaboration’s been good for RSTB fave Winter McQuinn. Following a string of solo record in his post-Sunfruits years, McQuinn began a fruitful string of collaborations that have given us Beefheart & McQuinn…
I love a good dose of getting what’s due. Following a lovely compilation of their early works and singles dating back to the early ‘90s, Australian indie pop outfit The Cat’s Miaow…
An itchy, insistent cut from Baltimore’s Crying Laughing puts the band’s new record for Hausu Mountain quickly into the queue of records to watch for 2026. Chopped and snipped, wracked with a…
Hard to believe it, but this marks the 20th year of the site. A big thanks to all those who’ve stuck through it with me. I’m happy to keep independent media alive…
Very excited to see the return of Dummy today. The band has long been living in the seams between the baggy dance dynamics of BritPop’s most buoyant characters and the smeared-lens streaks…
A fevered dive into friction from the always entrancing Bill Orcutt. Tackling one of the most covered songs in history, Orcutt doubles his Louies for a new 12″ that takes the ’60s…
Another hazy, healing bout of pop out of Minneapolis’ Real Numbers hits this week. The band’s been churning the pop wheels over the the last quarter decade, painting through the patterns of…
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