A second single from the upcoming Alien Nosejob confirms that Jake’s gone full force rock n’ roll on this album, shucking away the outfit’s previous skins soaked in disco, new wave, and…
An excellently brittle and bouncing post-punk gem out of the UK today. The Early Mornings make a jump to Practise Music for a new 12” EP that packs as much charm into…
Disorienting, bracing, and brutal, but with strange pockets of joy scraped out between the crushed plastic patterns, Comradly Objects finds Horse Lords hypnotizing listeners amid the swirl of their noise-prog vortex. There…
More good news out of the French indie circuit today. As their friends in EggS prepare a debut for Friday, En Attendant Ana announce their third LP for Trouble in Mind. The…
The last Gold Dust album marked a defiant departure from Stephen Pierce’s (Ampere, Kindling) roots in hardcore and shoegaze. The record sought kinship with the private press folk crowd, holing up in…
It’s good to see UK ground shakers Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs back in action this month. The band helps knock loose the last days of summer revelry, ushering in…
A nice surprise this morning brings a new single from Sencer Cullum with another RSTB fave in tow on the collaboration. The Nashville songwriter pairs up with Yuma Abe, whose album on…
Two all new doses of mind scrape madness hurtle out of the Witch Fingers’ universe as the band embarks on an Aussie tour. With wafts of a new album on the way,…
I love Danish label El Paraiso for the eternal mutability of its bands and lineups. The roster is constantly cross-pollinating acts to create new permutations with oftentimes surprising results. At the core…
Before setting out on a UK tour, Pearl Charles has released a new single, “Figure Skater.” The song is a cover off of Charles Watson’s (Slow Club, The Surfing Magazines) most recent…
Nice to see a new EP crop up from Patrick McDermott’s North Americans today. Following the news earlier in the year that his 2018 LP Going Steady was reissued by Third Man,…
A new crop from Eiderdown today and its full of RSTB faves, including a new tape on the way from Golden Brown. With an already excellent release out this year on Inner…
This album snuck out in a digital and CD run in 2018 but gains a new life on LP in 2022. Capturing the spirit of the current Cosmic Country wave, Portland’s Tobias…
During the chaos of 2020 Ashtray Navigations let out a fairly extensive overview. Nearly 6 hours of cosmic sounds, plus 4 max-length CDs curated by AshNav connoisseurs Rob Hayler, Henry Rollins, Pete…
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