Two RSTB faves find one another in the remix lane today as Spencer Cullum’s latest album gets a bit of a lush pop tweak from Frank Maston. Taking two pieces from the…
A constant favorite around here, Dutch four-piece Lewsberg have been slyly putting out pop gems for years now, straddling the line between VU austerity and indie pop’s softer side. Two new singles…
The Pink Stones let out a third single from the upcoming You Know Who and its as sweet as they come. Pinkston and the band set out to create a classic country…
The last few outings from Cole Pulice have been wrapped in a wondrous fog, navigating the mists of ambient, jazz, and kosmiche climates. For their latest, Pulice offers up an entry into…
Another gem in the ever-expanding stable of NY’s Island House Records. This time the label offers up a live recording of Kid Millions (Oneida, Man Forever) and Sarah Bernstein (VEER Quartet, Exolinger).…
Great to see the official announcement of Frankie and the Witch Fingers’ new album this fall. The band has been letting singles trickle out of the tap for the past year and…
Somehow its already June and its time to creep into the summer with a new edition of Crawl Out From The Fallout. This month on the radio show I packed in a…
More news out of the Allah-Las camp today. Following the announcement of their new album, the band’s Pedrum Siadatian returns with a new record under his alias as PAINT. The long running…
A bit of scorcher reaches the speakers this week from Montreal’s Private Lives. The Canadian quartet captures a match-lit plume of punk on the album’s opener “Trust In Me.” The song percolates…
Quite a nice surprise to find a new Sonny & The Sunsets album on the way this year. It’s been a while and there’s always something reassuring about Sonny’s sun-warmed strums. The…
A new single arrives from the upcoming (and highly anticipated around these parts) new record from Mikaela Davis. The songwriter’s direction has wandered further towards a Cosmic Americana tilt, and that strain…
No knock on the last couple of years, but the bulk of music that’s been released in the first half of 2023 has been particularly excellent. It was truly hard to whittle…
While the new Allah-Las album might share a name with Young’s ’75 classic, the first single “The Stuff,” seems to imply that the band is working closer to creating their Trans than…
Bringing together a bevy of familiar names around these parts, the maniacally monikered Animal Piss, It’s Everywhere announce their debut for Half A Million Records. The band, featuring members of Sunburned Hand…
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