Always game for some newnesss from Osees around here. The band has jettisoned the garage, pushed through the prog, and trashed the thrash in favor of a synth-punk sound on the upcoming…
Steve Palmer’s 2020 album Useful Histories was always a favorite around here. Put out on the sadly shuttered Sunrise Ocean Bender (RIP Kevin McFadin), the record bent the notion of an instrumental…
I’ve been behind in throwing some attention towards Guadalajara psych outfit UAY, but their upcoming album Kukulkan for Halfshell Records is shaping up into a real gem. The band has built themselves…
Following two previous installments of his Forest Standards series, Montreal by way of Wichita guitarist David Lord brings the latest to Big Ego and Astral Spirits. The previous two landed with Big…
Sam Blasucci’s keeping busy this year, with a solo release already on the schedule, he and Clay Finch return with a new Mapache album out at the end of the Summer as…
RSTB faves Jeanines hit the breeze this month with the announcement of a new 7” on Slumberland. The EP brings together three post-Don’t Wait For A Sign cuts. “”Each Day” chimes like…
It’s pretty hard to ignore this one today and for good reason. A few weeks back William Tyler alluded to a collaboration with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) to excitement and puzzlement. What…
Spanish outfit Melenas are back with a new album for Trouble in Mind. The first single hits hits week, trading up the band’s frayed guitar pop for a bit of propulsion, tipping…
At this point I’m not really one to line up for Record Store Day. The day’s pushed past its point of use and bled into a burden on the industry and small…
The fertile San Francisco scene continues to give rise to indie pop faves around here. Black Thumb eschews the strummy side of the SF contingent, diving into the incandescent glow of Spacemen…
A second single slips out from The Pink Stones’ new LP today, a more tempered tangle for the band than the dancefloor kiss-off of “Who’s Laughing Now?”. With an empty glass ache,…
The debut from Vanity Mirror brings together members of baroque psych outfit Electric Looking Glass for a natural progression out of the Nuggets box and into eddies of power pop, paisley pop…
Following quickly on the just-released album No One’s Rose, Joesphine Network returns with a smoother side of her glam-pop soul. Where the last album injected a bit of country into the mix,…
Building off of the swells started on You Become The Mountain and Torii Gates, Jeffrey Silverstein’s second LP splits its weight between the sunlight splendor of country instrumentals soaked in Western warmth…
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