Here Come the Tears may not top separate projects including Suede’s Coming Up or Bernard Butler’s People Move On, but it’s a worthy addition to the collection. It is simply not to be ignored by any fan of either Brett Anderson or Butler.
Scivic Rivers is the moniker of Durham, NC folkie Randy Bickford, and this four-songer follows a self-titled 2023 debut LP, as well as six albums from 2001-16 as The Strugglers and Brice Randall Bickford.
Melbourne-based songwriter Gary Hubber returns with A Dangling Thread, a new album that explores uncertainty, identity, connection, and the unfinished nature of life itself.
Memphis-born, New York-based saxophonist and composer Bernell Jones II returns with his latest single, “1979,”
London’s rising indie rock outfit St. Jove makes a fearless entrance with their debut single “GOLD”
The mastering, sound, and overall presentation are just incredible, as is the usual standard for Chad Kassem’s Acoustic Sounds reissues.
London-based shoegaze outfit sadplanet return with their powerful new single “please,” the second track to be lifted from their forthcoming debut EP “slowing down.”
Chicago-based dark synth / industrial artist TATV GRAL (ˈtätü ˈgräl) announces the release of the Treachery EP, a new remix EP featuring the original version of the ‘Treachery’ single, produced by William Faith.
Far more faithful to Stańko’s roots in free jazz than to the chamber jazz that made him a star in the States, Balladnya is a stunning calling card longtime fans of both the artist and the label need to hear.
Paul Louis Villani is a Melbourne-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who builds songs from instinct, not formulas.
“Kickback” is an official remake of The Fods’ track, rebuilt from the ground up by producer Night Wolf.
Bleach Dreamer is a Hamilton-based dream-pop project blending 80s post-punk textures with modern shoegaze atmosphere
Few debut albums introduce an artist so completely. ‘Yellow House’ does not merely present Satya as a promising songwriter; it establishes her as a thoughtful storyteller capable of turning private history into music of profound emotional and artistic substance.
What makes ‘And Then I Go Up’ particularly striking is its refusal to dramatize introspection. Many contemporary records treat vulnerability as spectacle, transforming private emotions into public performance. Ev. G. takes a different approach. These songs are thoughtful without becoming detached, emotional without becoming sentimental, and intellectually engaging without sacrificing accessibility.
Portland-based KALLAI announced Forever Could Never Be, the follow-up to the band’s debut LP, We Are Forever
Barry J Walsh’s latest single, “Star Ride”, is a supersonic slice of celestial pop, scoring the heavens with soaring harmonies and glammed-up jangly guitar riffage.
Boston songwriter Leah Callahan’s 5th solo album in 6 years, “Our Lady of the Sad Adventure”, out June 1, 2026, is a reverie which dials up dreamy synths, spacey beats, and captivating melodies.
Bay area-based composer Dren McDonald has been releasing music since the 1990s, setting standards with his work scoring video games, and winning gaming industry awards along the way for his efforts.
‘Spike And The Gandy Dancers’ is an American group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded by singer-songwriter Peter VanDusartz
Widowspeak sound neither nostalgic nor concerned with reinvention for its own sake. Instead, ‘Roses’ captures a band deepening its existing strengths and discovering new emotional shades within a familiar palette.
The album’s greatest accomplishment is its emotional intelligence: it recognizes contradiction as a permanent feature of human experience and finds beauty within that uncertainty. With this debut, Maisy Owen establishes herself as a songwriter of uncommon depth and sensitivity.
Far from existing as an auxiliary release, ‘Horrorble’ stands as a substantial artistic statement in its own right. It examines the same troubled world as its predecessor but from a different vantage point, replacing direct confrontation with reflection, atmosphere, and sonic archaeology. What emerges is not a diluted version of ‘Horror’ but its mirror image: darker in some respects, more contemplative in others, and every bit as compelling.
Broken Record understand that routine can be both prison and foundation, limitation and necessity. Their debut transforms that contradiction into compelling art, resulting in an album that is emotionally intelligent, musically assured, and remarkably perceptive about the realities of contemporary existence.
‘The Rosy Red World’ refuses to separate political consciousness from ordinary human feeling. Labrador understands that systems of exploitation do not merely destroy economies or governments; they reshape friendships, intimacy, memory, and identity itself.
What singles out ’Felix Culpa: The 30th Anniversary Edition’ from many rediscovered underground records is how little it depends upon historical context for its power. The album does not survive merely because it anticipated future trends. It survives because Poem Rocket pursued emotional and sonic ambiguity with rare conviction.
Throughout ‘Divided By Dusk’, Magda Drozd demonstrates exceptional skill as both composer and sonic storyteller. Her performances on violin, electronics, Lyra-8, and voice form the foundation of a sound world that is meticulously crafted yet emotionally open.
More than two decades into their partnership, Hammock continue to refine a musical language that belongs entirely to them. Categorized variously as ambient, post-rock, shoegaze, or neoclassical, their work has always exceeded such labels.
What makes ‘In Praise of Shadows’ so persuasive is its refusal to treat darkness as either menace or romance. Instead, it approaches obscurity as a necessary condition for perception itself.
The first thing you notice about this Lincoln, Maine-raised and now “nomad musician wanderer” folk troubadour’s fourth LP is his imposing, grandiose voice; Augustine’s eloquent, operatic croon recalls a more classically trained Roy Orbison.
Across his releases, Aaron blends blunt, memorable hooks with lyrical clarity, delivering records that feel immediate and lived-in.
Rooted in a search for authenticity, The Woodsmen emerge from a musical landscape often dominated by imitation and repetition.
Australia’s roving merchant of industrial synth crust, Schkeuditzer Kreuz, releases their next 7” vinyl single, ‘Keep Dancing’,
Citizen Smith, are a band hailing from Norwich, England, with influences ranging from the Beatles to REM and Big Star.
Double-titled disk ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance finds Bernstein wandering two different but intimately related paths.
Luna Day is an alternative pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a focus on writing infectious melodies, honest lyrics, and connecting with her audience.
The Gods They Made are a four-piece indie alt-rock band from Geneva, Switzerland.
New single from The Heat Inc, True Romance now out.
Formed in 2009 and featuring members of Hepcat Dilemma, Special Ed, Fuzzy Comets, and A.T.S., this Pittsburgh quartet finally follows up their 2010 debut You Can’t Drink All Day Unless You Start in the Morning.
Dublin-based collective Akrobat return with their new single “Dirty Gathering”, marking a further step in the band’s evolution across indie, new wave and art-rock.
George Collins is a transatlantic storyteller based in Prague and Key West. His writing brings soulful flair to the worlds of rock music, novels, and television!
Euplasia is a Nottingham-based independent artist, songwriter and NHS doctor creating emotionally driven indie pop/rock that balances melodic hooks with honest, real-world storytelling.
Return to 1990 with this saucy slice of Bay Area-meets-Tampa hip-hop (and funk and jazz) that wound its way into mainstream ears through sheer catchiness.
This Alton, IL-born, Denton, TX-based, ex-Moon Festival singer/guitarist has been busy, following up 2022’s Marty Willson-Piper co-produced A Nuclear Winter with these ninth and tenth LPs, recorded with songwriting friend Billy Harvey.
Lurcher’s second EP Bad Gag delivers on the promise of their debut With Love.
“Since Emilia” is the 4th single from “Nu York” Neo-Grunge & Punk band YACOVELLI, fronted by longtime underground veteran Alex Yacovelli.
Forgotten Garden are a Scottish-Portuguese Indie band
Leyla Romanova is a multigenre composer whose work spans nearly the entire musical spectrum — from the grandeur of the symphony orchestra to innovative electronic soundscapes and intimate pop-jazz inflections.
Alt rock artist e.lissa releases “Just Might,” a Pride Month anthem about self-discovery
“Say, I” is the new video/single from Scarlet Ayliz
With Cotton Mather on ice, Robert Harrison returns to Future Clouds & Radar for Big Weather, the combo’s first album since 2008.
