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’.
4fro Nick a.k.a Nick Anastasakis is a Greek-born, U.S.-based artist whose journey began in Crete, was shaped in New York, and continues to evolve in Los Angeles.
Wild Up gives Gay Guerilla a powerful, moving performance, delivered with both sharp expertise and deep feeling for the intentions behind the music.
Jacob Barrett is a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who writes, performs, and produces his own music, pairing orchestral arrangements with modern pop production
French Inhaler is a Chicago-based trio composed of singer and keyboardist Ashvin Prakash, bassist Adam O’Leary, and drummer Zane Chao.
Produced in 1988, Feebles, Fables & Ferns captures an inspired duet session with acclaimed pianist Fred Hersch in the latter’s studio, apparently made with no further aim than to capture a good time on tape.
Founded by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Áron Siegler, The Pixel Rain emerged from Southeast London’s underground scene with a self-titled debut EP in 2023.
JK Jerome is a UK indie singer-songwriter creating intimate, quietly cinematic music
Lyia Meta is an internationally recognized, multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer.
See Her is the debut album from **Danni Hoshino* new project, Light Bird.
From the sound of Lucid, his fifth album, all his prior work has been building up to this.
Gary Van Miert is a New Jersey-based musician and performer best known as the frontman of The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, a band that blends classic American musical styles like country, gospel, and blues with a distinct vintage flair and theatrical presentation.
The Lunar Keys are 4 anxious types from Guildford (UK) with too many tunes and nervous energy trapped in their psyches not to be in this band.
At just over eighteen minutes, ‘After The Storm’ leaves a remarkably strong impression. Many artists require an hour to communicate their intentions; Twenty One Children achieve it in a fraction of that time.
The influence of ‘Underwater Moonlight’ has become increasingly apparent over the decades. Elements of alternative rock, indie pop, neo-psychedelia, and guitar-driven underground music can all trace lines back to this album’s adventurous spirit. Yet influence alone does not explain its continued relevance. The record endures because it remains delightfully unpredictable. Every song contains unexpected turns, unusual images, and musical ideas that challenge assumptions about what rock music can achieve.
DEATĦ B¥ LØVE’s 444 is a dark, sensual, and cinematic debut that pulls electronic goth, industrial pressure, trip hop, and Middle Eastern textures into something unusually vivid.
By the time the album reaches its conclusion, SEXFACES have established themselves as far more than provocateurs. They emerge as keen observers of contemporary disorder, capable of turning cultural disillusionment into something exhilarating, intelligent, and impossible to ignore.
Every song is built around genuine emotional and thematic concerns, whether examining identity, authenticity, social pressure, or the search for meaning amid confusion. The result is a debut that communicates urgency without resorting to empty provocation.
‘Rose Skin’ introduces an artist with a distinct voice and a sophisticated understanding of how atmosphere, melody, and emotion can interact. It is a record defined not by spectacle but by careful observation, not by excess but by precision. Mariin K has crafted an album that lingers in the imagination, revealing new dimensions of feeling and meaning through its quiet confidence and remarkable compositional intelligence.
Fortunato Durutti Marinetti has created a work that is intellectually stimulating without becoming academic, emotionally resonant without sentimentality, and musically adventurous without abandoning melody. ‘Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter’ stands as a richly imagined song cycle, one that invites listeners into a world of reflection, contradiction, beauty, and wonder.
Meg and the Wheelers have crafted a record that understands one of country music’s oldest truths: wisdom rarely arrives through perfection. More often, it emerges through mistakes, resilience, and the willingness to keep moving forward despite uncertainty.
Back then, it was just hardcore and maybe emo, and if so, this album (the last full-length statement Endpoint has made to date) definitely pointed in the latter direction.
Here’s hoping that the quality of this new album won’t be overlooked again.
Fred Presley, hailing from Wethersfield, United States, is a talented songwriter and musician who showcases his skills through acoustic guitar and captivating lead vocals.
New chordless jazz combo Phoenix Trio, consisting of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Joe Martin, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, decided the best way to test out this new relationship was to record it live.
Zoe Konez is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer based in Brighton, writing, recording and producing all of her own music.
Tom Minor hits the airspace with his next bold single adding to his steadily growing catalogue of what the London singer-songwriter describes as existential indie.
Over a decade in, the legendary Dom Mariani is still as invested in his stoner rock beast as ever.
Patti Zlaket caps her remarkable 2025-2026 comeback with Dance Again, her first new album in two decades.
Tides Will Turn is a Canadian rock band from British Columbia.
Canadian rock project Criminal Hero returns with “Walk Through The Fire,” the fourth single from an upcoming debut album.
Like his 2021 seventh LP Following the Moon, this eighth by London singer/guitarist Simon Berridge proves that his ‘60s/70s-inspired, Teenage Fanclub folk-pop meets lighter Bevis Frond psych-rock remains intact.
Sung brings all of this devotion to her formative influences to life with a flair for big band arrangements that speaks of a deep love of that method of delivery.
Julia Greenberg’s “Born Sentimental” EP captures folk music at its most human: raw, close, funny, mournful, and carried by musicians who trust the room they are playing in.
As a final chapter in Lee “Scratch” Perry’s recorded legacy, ‘Spatial, No Problem’ encapsulates the qualities that made him one of modern music’s most singular figures. It celebrates experimentation over certainty, imagination over convention, and possibility over limitation. More than a closing statement, it stands as a reminder that artistic innovation is not a destination but a perpetual state of becoming.
The album recognizes that meaning is rarely discovered through grand revelations; more often, it emerges through accumulated details, half-remembered stories, and fleeting encounters.
Few artists possess the confidence to approach beloved songs with such freedom, and even fewer have the imagination to make those transformations feel inevitable. ‘Playing…6 Garage & Sixties Hits!’ succeeds because it understands a simple but profound truth: great music is never fixed.
What makes ‘Inferno’ such a remarkable achievement is its refusal to separate the intellectual from the emotional. The album engages with cosmology, theology, memory, biology, and metaphysics, yet never loses sight of human vulnerability. Its questions are grand, but their implications remain deeply personal. Boards of Canada understand that uncertainty is not a failure of understanding but an essential aspect of existence itself.
‘Black Paladins’ stands among the finest recordings produced outside the core Art Ensemble of Chicago discography, not merely because of its technical excellence or historical importance, but because it achieves something rarer. It transforms remembrance into action, poetry into sound, and collective memory into a living artistic presence.
What distinguishes ‘Fate Is Criminal’ is its willingness to inhabit uncertainty. Many albums about love and loss seek conclusions, lessons, or resolutions. RALEIGH recognizes that life rarely provides such neat outcomes.
‘Gravesite’ may be concise, but its artistic reach extends far beyond its duration. It is a sharp, uncompromising debut statement that transforms dissatisfaction into creative energy and uncertainty into purpose.
The 50th anniversary edition highlights just how sophisticated these recordings were despite their apparent simplicity. The remastered sound reveals subtle details in the harmonic layering and spatial placement, allowing listeners to appreciate the duo’s extraordinary sensitivity to texture and pacing. Yet the album’s true achievement remains conceptual rather than technical.
Joan As Police Woman revisits Real Life with new collaborators, deeper instrumental space, and a sense of motion that reveals how much room these songs had inside them from the beginning.
