Jim Blair is an independent musician, vocalist, and guitarist from Swindon, UK, best known as the frontman for the blues-rock band JB and The Mojo Makers.

Last Letters returns with All For Nothing: Unreleased, Alternates, and Rarities 2016–2026, a 24-track collection of previously unheard songs, demos, alternate versions, and lost recordings written over the last decade.

St. Divine is a NYC based band fronted by Will Croxton and Judy Ann Nock.

Benjamin Cartel is no stranger to making music that quickly connects with its listeners. That’s something he’s always excelled at, first with the substantial attention and acclaim accorded his duo Kaiser Cartel, and then, with a return to his solo career.

Nowherehouse is the third collaboration and a continuation of the asthetic developed by Jason Smith and Kevin Boggs since 2023’s well received self titled album.

What elevates ‘Devil’s Bowl’ beyond a compelling post-punk release is its intellectual ambition. Many records address contemporary anxiety; fewer succeed in examining the mechanisms that generate it. Unlettered approaches modern life not simply as a source of despair but as a bewildering spectacle in which image, commerce, politics, and identity have become inseparable.

Critically acclaimed New York garage rock band St. Divine is setting their micro genre, punk Americana, on its decapitated head like Orpheus flowing downriver.

New Jersey progressive rock collective Forgotten Roads have released Scenes From A Revolution, a sweeping 16-track concept album

Brooklyn-based indie singer-songwriter duo Ruby & Sasha are carving out a space uniquely their own with the release of their debut single, Outdoor Shower.

London-based alternative-pop duo Ooberfuse have built a reputation for creating cinematic, socially conscious music that bridges cultures and tells deeply human stories.

‘Tough Touch’ is a sophisticated and deeply affecting work, one that balances introspection with musical ambition while remaining grounded in genuine human experience.

Far more than a sophomore statement, ‘Horse To Water’ represents a meaningful artistic leap. It captures a band expanding its creative horizons without abandoning its identity, delivering a record that is emotionally rich, musically adventurous, and consistently engaging from beginning to end.

By expanding their musical vocabulary to include shades of college rock, new wave, and melancholy guitar pop alongside their established post-punk foundation, Toilet Rats have produced their most ambitious and emotionally resonant work to date. ‘Black Cats’ succeeds not because it abandons the band’s established strengths, but because it deepens them.

Like many African musicians, Mahkathini feels that music is more than just entertainment, or even art – it’s a spiritual calling, a responsibility as much as a gift.

Kaatwalk, a Twin Cities based singer-songwriter, infuses her music with a blend of heartfelt lyrics and a stripped-down, authentic sound.

Everything is the new album from Oxford based band MARYSGARDEN

There’s some significance to the release of Winter Songs – it’s the first album featuring Steve Swallow as a leader since 2013, and the first one since the passing of Carla Bley, his multi-decade partner in life and music.

NUTRI3NT and Daniella Goldfine return with a new full length vocal track, Mercedes Laments. The last track, Losing You, was featured on BBC Introducing and was popular on a number of Radio stations.

Ammar Farooki is a Pakistani-American singer songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Lahore and raised across Pakistan, he first emerged through the country’s independent music scene before relocating to New York City in 2019.

Hailing from deep in the Dartmoor hills and the bohemian town of Totnes, the band are committed to the highest musical and artistic integrity, drawing on influences that range from alt-folk and electronica to hard rock and metal

The Prize have spent years earning a reputation as one of Australia’s most exciting live bands. ‘In The Red’ proves that their appeal extends far beyond the stage. This is not merely a collection of strong songs assembled over several years; it is a statement of purpose from a band operating at full capacity.

‘J.C. Thomaz and the Missing Slippers’ is a celebration of rock and roll’s ability to remain dangerous, absurd, seductive, and transformative. It invites listeners into a world populated by doomed romantics, nocturnal wanderers, supernatural figures, and lovable misfits, then refuses to apologize for any of it.

At its core, ‘Sol.Hz’ is an album about transformation. Sounds become shadows of themselves. Structures dissolve into atmosphere. Human voices merge with machinery without losing their emotional essence. Through the combined artistry of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, Seefeel have created a work that explores the porous boundary between solidity and dissolution, presence and absence, memory and sensation.

What is remarkable about ‘Profound’ is its ability to hold complexity without diminishing accessibility. Garbus writes songs that are intellectually rich yet emotionally immediate, grounded in lived experience but never confined by it. Her exploration of happiness, bodily change, collaboration, and artistic evolution is handled with a sensitivity that avoids simplification while still inviting connection.

‘Mountain States’ stands as a significant contribution to contemporary instrumental music, not because it reinvents the banjo in spectacular fashion, but because it reveals how much has always been present within it. Through careful composition, thoughtful collaboration, and an acute sensitivity to resonance and space, Johnny Bell transforms a familiar instrument into a site of exploration, where memory, geography, and sound converge into a single evolving continuum.

Veteran songwriter and guitarist Darryl Scotti returns with a striking reimagining of “State Of Mind,” the latest release from Darryl Scotti and Big Yard.

Icelandic composer and cellist Eythor Arnalds continues to blur the boundaries between contemporary classical composition, cinematic ambience, and mindful listening on his expansive new ten-track album

British singer-songwriter and guitarist Tom Moriarty, hailed as “a performer of rare talent” by the Press Association and praised by the renowned Q Magazine for his “thoughtful roots rock,” has released his highly anticipated fifth studio album, ‘Chapters’,

Maneri is usually associated with free jazz and the avant garde, and while Mist won’t disabuse anyone of that notion, it’s not the full story, either.

Based in London, England, Frank Joshua is a captivating singer-songwriter known for his enigmatic melodies and heavenly wordplay.

The Royal Standard is the sophomore album from London odd pop band The Phone Call, now out via premier cult London label Blang Records

Franky Fugazi is a British songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and cigar box guitar player originally from Golborne, Greater Manchester, now based in the Netherlands.

Mick Eddy is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and engineer whose sound reflects a multicultural upbringing across six countries.

Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard is a brand new indie/alternative outfit that your folks would call “pretty good actually” after four beers.

Eddie Thompson – CroonerEd – is a professional musician and entertainer. He grew up in a singing family where they performed around the country and recorded Thompson Family albums.

Hollow Shift is an Athens-based darkwave duo consisting of vocalist/songwriter Jessica Bell and producer/composer Alexander Zamparas.

Rather than demanding attention through spectacle, the album earns it through patience, craft, and emotional intelligence. Few records this year have demonstrated such faith in the power of atmosphere, and fewer still have translated that faith into something so moving and fully realized.

Viewed from the perspective of the present day, ‘Thirst’ stands as one of the defining achievements of early industrial and post-punk music. It remains adventurous without becoming inaccessible, intellectual without sacrificing emotional impact, and innovative without relying on novelty. Few records from its era have aged with such grace or retained such a powerful sense of possibility.

What distinguishes ‘Dream’ from countless other records built around dystopian imagery is its refusal to romanticize catastrophe. GENTILESKY understands that collapse is neither cinematic nor poetic; it is confusing, absurd, frightening, and occasionally darkly funny. That understanding permeates every second of the album.

The album remains gloriously strange, intellectually adventurous, emotionally sincere, and aesthetically fearless. It is a work of startling imagination from an artist who has learned that complexity and clarity need not be opposing forces. Within its dazzling circuitry of sound, Fire-Toolz has created something rare: a record capable of overwhelming the senses while nourishing the spirit.

As a debut statement, the EP suggests a band already possessing a clear artistic identity. Their commitment to atmosphere, rhythmic experimentation, and emotional nuance sets them apart from many contemporaries operating within adjacent spaces. More importantly, they understand that confusion can be productive, that uncertainty can illuminate aspects of experience that certainty often obscures.

The 20th Anniversary Edition, issued through Seksound Record Label, re-contextualizes these works not by altering them, but by allowing their internal balances to register with renewed attention. The album’s architecture reveals itself less as a fixed structure than as a carefully maintained system of tonal relationships, where each element depends on subtle adjacency rather than prominence.

Quiet as a Mouse is singer/songwriter Alex Moran. QAAM is where Alex aims to show his personality, honesty, maturity, intimacy and lyrical strength as a songwriter and playing in a sandbox of genres such as indie, alternative rock, grunge, punk, emo and alt country.

Empty Machines is the project of Glasgow based artist Thomas Crawford, blending alternative, electronic, and ambient influences.

DegHerl were born in 2013, having as their main source of inspiration post-punk and new wave between the end of the ’70s and the mid-‘80s.

Born out of urgency following the 2024 election, the Minnesota Music Resistance (MMR) collective emerged from a shared need for solidarity within the state’s vibrant music scene

New York City’s newest alt-pop It Girl, Kiki Kramer, returns with her latest single and music video, “prom king.”

Silver Summer formed in the Summer 2019, played three successful shows in their hometown of Mankato, Minnesota, and then, like every other musical act in the world, went on hiatus at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Brennan Gilmore’s life and work have long defied neat categorization, moving fluidly between music, diplomacy, activism, and cultural exchange.

Italian dark alt. rock trio Noir Addiction return with their new single, ‘Money for the Honey’.