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.
Slide Away did not just showcase a genre; it demonstrated the absolute vitality of a musical philosophy built on the duality of extreme volume and delicate melody.
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.
The third album from this Woody Allen Sleeper robot-named Mount Airy, NC trio compiles two recent six-song EPs, 2024’s Ghost From Your Past and 2025’s Blue to Infinity.
Like they did on 2023’s Strange Empires, this Portland five-piece combine buoyant, shimmering dreampop with noisier forays into speedy, fermenting indie rock on their second full-length.
The American Boys (The Ballad of Frank Gusenberg and the St Valentine’s Day Massacre) is the latest single from David Omlor.
Artists like BLOCK don’t come along that often. When they do, they act as a sort of benchmark, a backdrop that can bring into sharp focus the fact that most music in the modern age is unadventurous, happy to follow the pack, do more of the same, be, well, whatever the opposite of unique is.
These four are all old friends who interact musically the way siblings do whenever they get together, no matter how long it’s been since the last time.
Tom Tikka teams up with Nolen Chew Jr. of The Star Prairie Project for a killer slice of Americana, Runaway Baby
Spinors is an Alternative Rock band with a Steampunk aesthetic based in London, United Kingdom, founded by Sergie Code, its singer and guitarist.
Tiger Adopt is the studio project of London-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer Sam Bishop
Post-punk desert lullabies and sonic anthems for the downtrodden.
‘La Encantadora Furiosa’ (“the furious enchantress”), is the second release from The SPKtR in 2026,
‘Carousel’ acknowledges the disquiet of existing in a world where personal expression is constantly mediated and quantified, yet it insists on the value of sincerity as a counterforce. The album’s rotating cast of voices and textures becomes a metaphor for this belief, suggesting that meaning is not something to be secured in isolation but something that takes shape through shared experience, however fragile that process may be.
Many records aspire to timelessness by stripping away contemporary markers. ‘Adormidera’ reaches something more profound. It does not sound detached from time; it sounds adjacent to it, as though these songs had been quietly waiting for the precise conditions under which Foster and Herrero could finally give them voice.
What lingers most after ‘Thresholds’ concludes is its refusal to offer interpretive certainty. Anderson does not guide the listener toward resolution or conceptual clarity. Instead, he constructs environments in which memory, decay, natural force, and subconscious imagery circulate freely, colliding in unpredictable forms.
Armed with little more than a guitar, electronics, and a strikingly distinctive voice, Margaret Sohn transformed a modest underground venue into a space where perception seemed fluid, time became difficult to measure, and music functioned as both architecture and emotional inquiry.
Poignant, direct lyrics such as “I don’t want to live forever. I want to live right now, I want to live today.” With the understanding of Peter’s struggle with cancer, this may sound haunting, but the takeaway can be an uplifting message. The spirit of Mike Peters within Transformation remains strong, but longtime fans may feel a tremendous sense of loss, because this remains The Alarm’s final record.
NINA and Radio Wolf enter night vision with ‘To See You’ — a nocturnal collision of haunting vocals, soaring guitars, synth textures and cinematic atmosphere.
“Dissolution” is the latest single from Atlanta-based musician Matare.
Irish collective AINM return with their new single “Darlin’”, a track that unfolds into something expansive, intimate and deeply atmospheric
Ahead of a full album of reimagined Chopin Preludes, Ben Aubergine gives us a taste with a new take on Prelude in E Minor
Amateur Ornithologist share their new album, The Haunted Life of Architecture.
Having enjoyed this NJ electro pop virtuoso’s two “hypnotic, ear-tickling” releases as Textbook Maneuver, 2025’s Adrenaline Slip and 2024’s Strike Joy EP, it was no surprise this neo-classical piano LP under his own name would also delight.
“Digitally Modified,” the new single from Co.LeGa, is out now.
Less dense than Lovano’s nineties combos, but also less ethereal than his recent work leading Trio Tapestry, Paramount Quartet trims the fat and works the muscle of its bop-based modern jazz.
Wooden Overcoat’s debut EP turns lo-fi psych, shoegaze haze, and basement-recorded warmth into something bright, uneasy, and quietly haunted.
The last musical testament from Mike Peters and Welsh rockers The Alarm is everything you’d expect from a man that lived life with full-throttle passion. It’s an autobiographic aural blitz on steroids. Just as big as his personality, ”Transformation” is also a lyrical diary encapsulating everything important to him as he went through harrowing treatments to fight his blood cancer. Though he died suddenly in April 2025, stunning family and fans worldwide, his final album released May 29, 2026 – one year to the day from his funeral in Wales – has its own eternal beating heart.
On this prolific Dutch guitarist’s fourth solo LP, following 2021’s The Beginning and Everything Before, he’s joined by formidable drummer Joost Kroon; together they bang out colossal, turbocharged guitar rock.
The California guitarist takes a page from the book of musician/composers like William Tyler and Hayden Pedigo, delivering acoustic guitar-centered instrumentals with a cinematic bent.
Jacqui Hunt’s “Cycles” strips her electronic and dream pop history down to piano, voice, and grief, turning repetition into the song’s quiet emotional force.
John Darnielle and the now four piece Mountain Goats hit Columbus and drop a couple of teasers from the next record.
Since forming in 1996, these Albany, NY sleaze-rock miscreants haven’t rested; Just What the Devil Ordered is their 14th full-length, to go with three EPs and a 40-song 2017 best-of, 20 Years of Nothing to Show For It.
The Sunday Shamans is a psychedelic band from London. “Where You Begin” is their latest single.
Yolanda is the debut album of Oxford, UK artist Emma Hunter.
PNW Shoegazers, Waves Crashing, drop their latest album, In The Blur.
Boston’s arcane, slime mold-monikered, one-man Physarum faithfully drops two more of his succinct, 10-song, weirdly-titled, GBV producer Todd Tobias-mastered, amber-colored with flora/fauna artwork LPs — his 21st and 22nd since November 2020.
GUIDES have released their powerful new single “DRAIN”, marking the beginning of a bold new chapter for the group
Tabitha Zu’s debut single “Heard It Before” has finally landed in the land of the digital — marking a new chapter in the band’s long-overdue digital revival.
South London/Dartford band The Early Swerve return with Father of the Chapel, a narrativedriven single rooted in British character, loyalty, and fracture.
Southern Californian band seeTrees is back with their latest song, “Easy Times.”
Joan As Police Woman’s “I Defy” returns as part of Real Life Evolution, drawing its force from her close vocal, Krystle Warren’s entrance, and an arrangement that grows from worn intimacy into dramatic heat.
Tween punk-rock trio Reverse Revolution is maturing fast. Their new single, “Cherry Blossom Kiss”, is tighter and more self-aware than ever
Emerging singer-songwriter Steve Stinson steps into the spotlight with his debut single “Always On My Mind,”
More than four decades after their formation, The National Game returns with Still Life, a 10-track album that captures a band reflecting on its past while firmly rooted in the present.
London-based non-binary artist, producer, and engineer Ary Maudit steps into the spotlight with their debut single “No Intention,”
“Orpheus” is an indie-pop/soul single inspired by the Greek myth of Orpheus & Eurydice — reimagined as a modern love song.
The Buddyrevelles present Anything for Abbey, the first single off The Conviction.
Tojo Yamamoto release a cover of the R.E.M. classic “Man on the Moon” as an obvious nod to Andy Kaufman’s run as a wrestler.
“Make It Anyway” is a stirring new single from Some Spirit, a fresh venture emerging from Los Angeles spearheaded by artist Jonny Diina.
GEORGE does not present harmony as a fixed destination. The music searches, doubts, recalibrates, and reaches outward again. In doing so, ‘Looking for Consonance’ becomes far more than an avant synth-pop jazz fusion album. It becomes a meditation on how people endure one another, challenge one another, and occasionally discover moments of shared meaning within instability.
What lingers after ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ concludes is not simply sorrow but altered perception. Wellman transforms environmental catastrophe into an act of collective listening, forcing confrontation with the acoustic consequences of climate instability and human fragility.
‘Serenade’ confirms Colin Andrew Sheffield as one of the most sophisticated composers working within abstract sound today, crafting music that transforms erosion, fragmentation, and uncertainty into something quietly profound.
Across these thirty-six tracks, musicians from radically different generations engage in a sprawling conversation about language, identity, nationalism, class, technology, and emotional survival. Some attack directly. Others drift into irony, absurdism, melancholy, or abstraction. What connects them is not a consistent sound but a shared refusal to accept inherited cultural narratives at face value. Half a century later, German punk remains unruly precisely because it never fully agreed on what it was supposed to become.
Orions Belte have distilled their musical identity to its most essential form and discovered something quietly revelatory within that simplicity: virtuosity not as domination, but as attentiveness; authenticity not as branding, but as presence. Few records sound so unconcerned with spectacle, and fewer still derive such richness from that refusal.
Mariin K has crafted a single that understands how modern intimacy often exists within provisional spaces, shaped by timing, distance, fear, and longing in equal measure.
By the end of ‘Western Mind,’ Josh Martin has achieved something increasingly rare within contemporary instrumental music: a record capable of conjuring vivid imagery without becoming dependent upon it. The album’s landscapes are never merely visual. They are emotional, philosophical, and deeply human.
Popidiot never mistake complexity for obscurity, nor accessibility for superficiality. Instead, they create music capable of carrying emotional ambiguity within irresistibly melodic forms. By the album’s end, ‘Sweet Marmalade’ reveals itself as far more than an affectionate exercise in synth-pop aesthetics.
Turnover have made records about longing before. Here, they examine what remains after longing loses its urgency and becomes woven permanently into the texture of everyday life.
Manitowoc is the new single and video from Turn Turn Turn
Rachelle Garniez is a songwriter, singer, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
She takes music based on entirely different modes and scales from American sounds, and translates it into tunes that both pay tribute to the spirit of the original recordings and add her own distinctive touch as a musician.
Formed in 2025, MUTE TV are a raw blend of post-punk, noise pop, shoegaze and alternative rock from the South West UK.
A heavy rock reimagining of Ginuwine’s “Pony,” blending Alice in Chains–style harmonies and Deftones‑influenced atmosphere with the iconic 90s R&B hook.
Now out via Little End Records, “Everything You Ever Wanted To Be” represents Korda Korder’s most definitive statement yet.
Decadent Heroes is the solo instrumental rock project of guitarist Luigi Chiappini, a musician driven by an unwavering pursuit of tonal perfection and emotional authenticity.
‘Summer Dreaming’ is an ethereal, trippy longing for those long balmy never-ending summer nights.
Marking 40 years in the game, Seattle’s Marley’s Ghost deliver a new album, Honky Tonk.
The Muster Point Project are back with a neat slice of contemporary nostalgia in the form of “Drive-In Movie (Wonderful Time)”
The Joy Thieves return with “No Anchor,” a Chris Connelly-fronted industrial rock single that turns isolation, moral drift, and collapse into something aggressive, precise, and hard to shake.
Cindy understands that mystery need not obscure feeling; instead, ambiguity can deepen emotional resonance by preserving the complexity of lived experience. Karina Gill, Staizsh Rodrigues, Will Smith, and Oli Lipton have created a record of remarkable subtlety and depth, one that lingers in the mind like partially remembered conversations, private realizations, or emotional truths glimpsed only briefly before receding again into uncertainty.
The album’s title functions as both aesthetic descriptor and philosophical statement. ‘WIRED’ captures a band operating on instinct sharpened through hardship, musicians reconnecting with the volatile energy that made their earliest work resonate while refusing to become prisoners of it. Basement sound revitalized not because they have rediscovered the past, but because they finally trust themselves enough to move beyond it.
At its core, ‘Strange Devotion’ is an album about reclaiming trust: trust in one’s instincts, voice, memory, desires, and creative autonomy. Weaver approaches these subjects not with grand declarations, but through accumulated emotional detail and melodic intelligence. The result is a record that speaks quietly yet carries enormous emotional force, confirming Maura Weaver as one of indie rock’s most perceptive and emotionally articulate songwriters.
The EP’s greatest accomplishment may be its refusal to separate chaos from tenderness. Beneath all the saturation, sarcasm, and manic energy lies a profound curiosity about how people continue connecting with one another despite exhaustion and emotional overload.
‘A Little Broken’ succeeds because it understands that emotional survival rarely announces itself dramatically. More often, it appears in smaller acts: continuing conversations after disappointment, carrying memory without being consumed by it, choosing tenderness despite accumulated hurt.
As what may be Columbia Icefield’s final statement, ‘A Silence Opens’ carries additional emotional gravity. Yet the album never frames ending as defeat. Instead, it understands closure as another form of transformation, another way absence acquires presence. The record suggests that grief, memory, and artistic collaboration all involve learning how to carry what can no longer physically remain.
Few electroacoustic works in recent years have balanced conceptual sophistication and sensory beauty with such confidence. ‘String Figures’ confirms Felicity Mangan as one of the most inventive composers currently working within experimental sound, creating music that is simultaneously intimate, ecological, and startlingly otherworldly.
What makes ’Night of the Hunter’ interesting is not simply its command of genre aesthetics but its understanding of emotional theatricality as a serious artistic tool. Ezrah, Jeff Browning, and Thorson recognize that gothic and industrial music function best when they externalize internal collapse.
What makes ‘T.I.T.S.’ compelling is not merely its willingness to offend or bewilder. Plenty of records accomplish that with little imagination. Sür Drōne succeed because the album recognizes vulgarity as a language through which cultural truths often emerge more honestly than through refinement.
What lingers after ‘Materia Vibrante’ concludes is not merely atmosphere but altered perception. López encourages listening as a form of philosophical inquiry, inviting attention toward the hidden resonances shaping both inner and external experience.
Adrielle Bow Belle returns with “ICEY ROADS” a glacial, slow‑burn indie track that turns subtlety into a weapon.
In the Golden Age is Merwulf’s sophomore album, out now, and which and pushes further into a raw, focused sound shaped by lived experience and growing confidence.
With voice, groove, and emotional depth, Sasha Joy doubles down on the soulful, richly textured sound that’s earned her early critical praise, unveiling “Got You Something” out now across all major platforms.
London indie group French Dogs are releasing their intense new single “Broken Glass” on May 15th, serving as the final teaser for their debut album Here’s to Pretending, which arrives on May 29th.
With their pianos snuggled up like puzzle pieces, the pair trade songs but collaborate on each one, with neither being showcased above the other.
Brand new single “Modern War” sees Barking Poets waste no time drawing you into their dystopian, uneasy, fragile world
Transcendecadence is an alternative rock/ progressive post-punk band lead by Slovakian singer and composer Victoria Priester.
The Kind Hills Announce two new singles and third Album Little Epiphanies, Cross-Continental Indie Pop for Dreamers and Late-Night Wanderers
Julia Greenberg’s “Leaves” turns loss into something warm, plainspoken, and quietly hopeful, letting memory, humour, and live-room intimacy carry the song forward.
Ahead of their next album, Suneaters V: Heroic Dose, the band have dropped the single and video Johatsu.
Joined by maverick improvisers Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Mat Maneri (viola), and Henry Fraser (bass), Kim refuses to simply layer her instrument into a jazz arrangement as a texture.
Using saxophones, flutes, clarinets, harmonica, kalimba, loops, effects pedals, and his own voice, Greenfield adds layers of drones, riffs, ambient abstractions, and improvisational solos.
“Everybody Bleeds” is a modern rock anthem with a classic core about the hidden struggles people carry.
Heron shares final digital single Something Nothing ahead of limited physical pressing for Underground Sky.
London based dub reggae crew The Hempolics return with A Fistful of Covers, a brand-new EP released on ZeeZee Records.
“Travelin’ Heart” is an indie pop track with strong organic and Americana influences, built around acoustic guitar, mandolin, and pedal steel, and carried by a full-band arrangement that lifts into a dynamic, melodic chorus.
UNDEFY is the solo project of Rafal‚ Biernacki, a musician and producer with over 20 years of experience, previously known from the band Disperse
Formed in 2019, James White & The Wild Fire blend psychedelic folk rock with bluegrass, country, and Americana influences.
Where the Wild Things Are, the new one from Duane Hoover is out now.
