Tobacco City are a “cosmic” country/Americana duo from Chicago comprising Chris Coleslaw and Lexi Goddard. Come March, ...

Russian shoegazers Blankenberge have another stunner out today following the September release of comeback single “New Rules.

Tireless Detroit underground rap overlord Boldy James is truly back on his Guided By Voices bullshit. In 2024, Boldy released three full-length albums, all collaborations with different producers. For ...

The hilariously disrespectful Flint, Michigan rapper Rio Da Yung OG’s career was just starting to take off when he pleaded guilty to firearms possession, receiving a five-year prison sentence. Last ...

On their first two albums, 2020’s Pagan Rhythms and 2022’s Deathwestern. Stu Folsom’s Las Vegas punk-metal crew SpiritWorld explored the darker, grimier side of the cinematic myth of the American West ...

Lowertown’s Olivia Osby and fellow NYC musician Sean Henry debuted a new project called Child Star with the scrappy, ...

Runnner forayed into ambient music with his albums Starsdust and Dust 2. Today, Noah Weinman is returning to his indie-rock ...

One of the most ridiculous movies that I watched last year was Brats, Andrew McCarthy’s documentary about what it was like to be part of the young actor crew known as the Brat Pack in the ’80s.

I didn’t expect to laugh this hard at the Waterboys’ new single. Scottish musician Mike Scott’s long-running big-rock project has always had a certain level of theatricality to it, but I don’t ...

Julia Michaels and Maren Morris were two of my favorite figures to emerge within the mid-2010s mainstream machine. Michaels, best known as a songwriter, had some real nice tracks of her own as a solo ...

Former Little Mix member Jade Thirlwall made quite the impression with her debut solo single “Angel Of My Dreams,” which was recognized in these pages as not just one of 2024’s best songs but the very ...

It’s been three years since PUP released THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND, their most recent LP, and it’s been two since they came out with a two-song single of album outtakes. Now, they’re back. PUP are ...