Interviews

The band Shoes, known for their Power Pop sound and tight-knit ways of writing, recording, and releasing, continues to release new albums, but this time, following an album, Gary Klebe found himself writing an unusual amount of music. He didn’t think anything of it at first, thinking those songs would eventually make it onto a […]

Pearl Charles and Michael Rault are a fascinating couple. They met via a mutual friend back in the summer of 2019, while Charles was recording her album Magic Mirror, with Rault flying in from Montreal to hang out and add some guitar. What started as a friendship grew into a musical and romantic relationship, and the two […]

Portland-based band The Builders and The Butchers will be releasing their new album, which marks their seventh, on April 3rd, via Badman Recording Co. It’s titled No Tomorrow, and as the title might suggest, it has plenty to do with the current apocalyptic feeling of existence. And yet, within the fiery imagery and doom, there […]

Brooklyn-based Indie Rock band Evil Twin released their debut full-length album, Upside Down We’re Flying, on March 13th, following on from an EP and the release of several singles. It draws on a love of multiple 90s music genres and creates an immersive atmosphere you might associate with psych rock while experimenting with song structure. […]

Aubrie Sellers has never mistaken volume for truth. In a music industry that often rewards bold personalities and constant visibility, Sellers has built her career in a quieter, more deliberate way—one shaped as much by introspection as instinct. It hasn’t always been easy. But it has led her to Attachment Theory, a record that may […]

Spencer Thomas doesn’t pretend to have invented himself out of thin air. In fact, he’ll tell you the opposite—plainly, even cheerfully. “If you like Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, you’ll probably like my music,” he says. “I’m pretty shameless about that.” It’s not false modesty. It’s a working philosophy, one that has come into sharper focus […]

On February 27th Season of Mist released Berlin-based post-metal band Unverkalt’s album Héréditaire, their first with the label, but their third album overall. The new album shows a lot of maturity, both in its ambitious compositions and multiple vocal styles, and in its overarching message about the inherited violence and conflict we face and struggle […]

Transmitter is the latest addition to the Cut Worms universe, but this is a very different artist from the one we’re used to. Led by singer/songwriter/musician Max Clarke and started as a solo home-recording project, Cut Worms was once a lo-fi outing with daring tendencies to stretch their limited recording equipment into universal moments of […]

Snarky Puppy will host the GroundUP Music Festival this weekend, March 13–15, at the Miami Beach Bandshell. The eclectic lineup goes well beyond performances from the festival’s hosts, featuring artists like Flying Lotus, Rickie Lee Jones, Patrice Rushen, Isaiah Sharkey, and Bilal among others. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the festival, which has […]

Psychobilly legends The Quakes have cemented a long-standing place in the subgenre, being one of the early American influences of the psychobilly scene in the 40 years since the band’s founding in 1986. Formed in Buffalo, New York, by frontman Paul Roman (guitar/vocals), Rob Peltier (upright slap bass), and Dave “The Ace” Hoy (drums), The […]

Throughout his decades-long career, Shabaka has proven to be a vital organ in contemporary jazz, pushing the boundaries of the genre without force by simply trusting his vision and seeing it through. From his time spent with bands like Sons of Kemet, to the way he manipulated his saxophone, all the way to the moment […]

Jessica Lea Mayfield does not enter a room so much as drift into it, like cigarette smoke curling toward a ceiling stained by old songs. She speaks softly, almost apologetically, as if volume were a vulgarity. Yet the life behind that voice has been anything but quiet. It has rattled down highways, slept in parking […]

Portland, Oregon-based Chicano Rock artist Joshua Josué recently released his second full-length album, Broadcast To the Surf Ballroom, which is a very special project that gathers some of the unfinished demos and fragments left behind by Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens at the time of their deaths and completes those songs, bringing them each to […]

Alan Williams is someone who has moved within several musical worlds throughout the course of his life so far, and so gathers together unique perspectives, from practical experience, to technical know-how, to the theories and ideas that lie behind creativity and collaboration. His new solo album, Floating on the Dreamline, arrives on March 6th, via […]

Rachael Sage has never treated songwriting as a statement alone. Her songs are intimate, sometimes devastatingly so, but they are also theatrical, expansive, and carefully staged. For more than three decades, Sage has built a body of work that feels less like a journal than a series of rooms: some private, some communal, all lit […]

Germany and Netherlands-based Progressive Death Metal band Alkaloid have recently released their first-ever live album,Bach Out of Bounds,that combines many “firsts” for them, since it was also the first time they performed work by another artist in a focused way, and the first time they collaborated with other musicians. It was all the product of […]

How does a musician become someone’s favorite? With the treasure trove of incredibly talented people releasing music at a dizzying pace, how do some rise within our souls to the point of obsession? Is it an innate prowess in the music itself, a more complex emotional connection, or an amalgamation of collected data, analyzed by […]

HÉR is a Polish experimental music group, whose name translates roughly as “here, now”, who will be releasing their first album, Monochrome, via Season of Mist on January 30th. That seasonal release is very appropriate since the album draws inspiration from the icy spirit of the Old North that we find in Viking sagas and […]

Toad The West Sprocket are celebrating 40 years of a band this year, an anniversary that comes on the heels of their extensive Good Intentions Tour in 2025. Along with this anniversary arrives a stonkingly entertaining new collection of their music, reinterpreted acoustically, titled Rings: The Acoustic Sessions,which arrives onJanuary 30th. With songs chosen from […]

Warren Haynes has been extremely busy these days. For him, that’s really saying something. He appeared on CBS News to speak about the passing of Bob Weir, sat in with the band on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, premiered a new song, “Desiree” for Paramount’s Landman, and sat in with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead […]