‘River Shook’ is about becoming more honest, but honesty here does not mean presenting a polished portrait of personal growth. Shook admits to struggle, vulnerability, bad judgment and uncertainty. They also recognize that a path isn’t a life sentence, you can always choose a different route if you have the fortitude.
The album’s most fascinating quality may be its willingness to let uncertainty ring out. Hornyak taught himself cello and harp for this project while returning to the piano training of his childhood, allowing the limitations of newly acquired technique to become part of the journey.
Its greatest pleasure lies in how much imaginative space Attic Room discovers inside such a small sonic room. By the final notes of “becoming winter,” the attic no longer seems like somewhere to hide. It has become somewhere to listen, remember, and secure enough to perhaps understand yourself a little better.
The group has built its identity around absence, allowing these recordings to become the events. There are no personalities to chase, no stage mythology to consume. There is only the work.
Independent singer-songwriter and recording artist Patrick Doval unveils a cinematic new music video for his latest Rock single, with drums performed by former The Offspring drummer Pete Parada
“Tokyo Rose” is the third single from Fierce Friend’s forthcoming album Blood Red Hills & The Uncanny Valley.
Plastic Crimewave, visual artist/musician Sarah Gossett, and producer Bobby Conn team up for a second offering of kosmische bliss.
Music by Jeremy is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Banbury, England, making his debut with a project that defies the usual boundaries of a first release.
Firefly Search Party is a quirky couple of humans making honest music with our friends in the search for connection, light, and to make something beautiful with our time together.
British rock powerhouse Courtney Hadwin has released her newest single, “Whatcha Gunna Do?!”
Anthology releases a 50th anniversary edition of underground phenom Robert Lester Folsom’s Music and Dreams with bonus LP of demos.
Zachary is a 29-year-old artist based in Guildford, UK. Since the spring of 2021, Zachary has created between 200 and 250 demo tracks on a recording kit gifted to him by a relative.
Saxophonist and composer Kevin Sun gets busy with his eight and ninth solo albums by releasing them at the same time.
The new single from Awake & Dreaming, “Underwater” comes via their upcoming full-length debut Inevitable.
Milo Jones is an NYC-based American singer-songwriter whose off-kilter style will endear and engage fans of folk, the 70s, and (lyric-wise) Zappa heads everywhere.
Four years after their critically acclaimed EP, “The Summer Tree”, St. Paul’s JoJo Green returns with Paint the Sky – Part 1, a unique and diverse five-song collection that finds the band stretching its iconic eclectic sound
Poems For Dead People / Intertitle is a collaborative project that inhabits the space between dark electronic music, spoken word, and cinematic storytelling
Costa Rican alternative rock project Proyecto Escapulario have released their new single and video, ‘Cuasrán’, inspired by the Indigenous Boruca people, their strong territorial and cultural continuity, and their ancestral connection with the natural world.
From busking on the streets of Camden to selling out shows around the world, Cam Cole has built his career by following his own path
Twenty-plus years into her extraordinary career, pianist Kris Davis continues to grow.
EverWill is the solo rock project of Nebraska-born artist Will Griffey, a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter turning personal experiences into powerful, high-energy anthems.
Put simply, MonstroCity is an album that wanted to be made, and Shansylvania is the band that was destined to make it.
Songwriter Scott Allen draws inspiration from personal history and life lessons. He uses both memories and significant experiences to shape the storylines, often focusing on moments shared with others.
UK music sorcerer Fran Ashcroft has shaped pop history from both sides of the glass—from his own band The Monos! to producing Damon Albarn and working at Abbey Road.
The Graceland Conspiracy is the new dream-pop project created by Colin Crooks, previously a member of PBR Streetgang, who released several singles through the legendary Northern Irish label Good Vibrations.
Throughout the album, the pianist shifts between easy control and almost total abandon.
Fools Arcade is an alternative indie band known for their eclectic sound, driving rhythms, and rich harmonies, hailing from Leeds, UK.
Cable Street Riot is an anonymous solo project from Los Angeles blending post-punk, dark electronics, industrial textures and atmosphere
Raised On Candy let “Pickle Eyes” reveal itself gradually, moving from wiry tension into layered guitars, exposed vocals, explosive drums, and a final surge that makes its opening feel deceptively small.
Grant’s passion is bringing American history (including our native peoples) and culture to life with his music. So far, his AMERICAN STORIES album series has captured the essence of the Dust Bowl, Appalachia, and the Mississippi River.
Francesco Virgilio’s multidisciplinary electronic project explores existence, wonder, adolescence and loss across four interconnected tracks and accompanying films.
Energy Whores, the genre-defying electronic project led by New York songwriter, vocalist and producer Carrie Schoenfeld, release Invisible (Four Ways)
Rising artist Ava Renn returns with her latest single, ‘Sellout’s Prelude’, an ethereal and emotionally immersive release that explores the fragile space between self-destruction and self-preservation.
London-based independent alt-pop artist Zoë Zohar combines live, raw instrumentation with electronic experimentation and a subversive undertone.
Where rhythmic experimentation meets a love for grand, cinematic melody, this three-piece collective mix a technical art-rock precision soulful rawness.
A Sirens call across brooding oceans, ‘Take Me To The Sea’ exists in the haze where the sky meets the sea; an ethereal, whispered longing.
Harley DiNardo’s music lives somewhere between the heartland honesty of The Black Crowes, the swagger of The Rolling Stones, the melodic sensibility of Britpop.
Sean MacLeod is an Irish singer-songwriter, composer, producer and author whose music combines melodic indie pop, alternative rock, folk, psychedelia and experimental influences with thoughtful, philosophical songwriting.
This is music that prefers sweat to sheen, distortion to precision, and a good getaway plan to another hour of doomscrolling.
Fuel For The Fire works best as a document of an artist returning to his younger self without simply trying to recreate him, and four decades later, Goldberg has given these old recordings room to become something new.
Hailing from High Wycombe, Broken Colours are a four-piece indie outfit who draw on the funked-up, rocky sensibilities to delivery truly electrifying performances.
‘Feasting 2026 (HK Mix)’ releases today as a bold reinvention of ‘Feasting on my friends’, the B-side from The Sway’s very first single.
Luke Haines and Mike Smalle pull an 1887 Irish American song into a tense electronic present on “The Black Maria, O,” where antique criminal slang, synthetic pulse, and gathering metallic chaos make history feel strangely immediate.
Eddie Skuller’s “House Where Nobody Lives” reframes Tom Waits’ abandoned-house ballad through tender melody, live-tape intimacy, and a quietly bruised sense of what love leaves behind.
Formed in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2024, SUNTWIST is an indie rock band that pairs energetic songwriting with catchy melodies and a sound that feels both nostalgic and refreshingly modern.
“Run” is the third single from Tallulah’s seventh album, Only Human.
Alternative dream rock four-piece Leem of Earth is entering a new creative chapter in 2026 with ‘SEE’, an ambitious concept album inspired by George MacDonald’s Victorian-era fairy tale The Princess and Curdie.
New York rock outfit Hazel Gaze bring a distinctly live-driven energy to their latest project, Strung Out: Live & Unplugged at the Brooklyn Conservatory, a recorded and visual performance that revisits the spirit of the classic unplugged sessions of the 1990s and 2000s.
If you’re in the market for a mainstream jazz pianist, Benny Green has a hell of a CV.
I Plead Irony are three long-time friends making alternative rock with punk and blues fringes, pairing dark themes, dry humour and a persistent fascination with contradiction.
