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L’orne drift into beautiful madness on “Talk To Me Too”

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Westside Cowboy saddle up with new label, tour and brand new EP

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Bug Teeth’s “Micrographia” finds cosmic resonance in quiet moments
Disquieting Sounds of David Lynch
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Disquieting Sounds of David Lynch
Cloth soundtrack the golden hour with “Pink Silence”
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Cloth soundtrack the golden hour with “Pink Silence”
Westside Cowboy unleash barnstorming hit on thrilling new single “Alright Alright Alright”
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Westside Cowboy unleash barnstorming hit on thrilling new single “Alright Alright Alright”
Eades flex their swaggering alt-country sound on “The Other Side of Life”
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Wisp luxuriates in If Not Winter’s sonics
Top 20 Songs of the Year 2025
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Top 20 Albums of the Year 2025
Bug Teeth’s “Micrographia” finds cosmic resonance in quiet moments
Album Review
Bug Teeth’s “Micrographia” finds cosmic resonance in quiet moments
Disquieting Sounds of David Lynch
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Disquieting Sounds of David Lynch
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M(h)aol share resplendent new single “Snare”

November 8, 2024 Matt

Freshly signed to Merge Records and now playing as a three-piece Irish intersectional feminists M(h)aol return to the pop rock fray with a gloriously, typically spikey sounding “Snare.” The single…

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Hotgirl announce arrival with blistering single ‘In Your Head’

November 1, 2024 Matt

Besides playing some raucous live shows and festival dates, Hotgirl has been hunkered in the studio recently, escaping the confines of lead vocalist Ashley Abbedeen‘s previously DIY bedroom project. They…

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Mamalarky return with the sweet and hooky love song “Nothing Lasts Forever”

October 28, 2024 Matt

Mamalarky, the tri-coastal indie rock quartet of Livvy Bennett, Noor Khan, Michael Hunter, and Dylan Hill, has signed to Epitaph Records and released a new single, “Nothing Lasts Forever”, the…

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The Horrors emerge from the darkness with “The Silence That Remains”

October 11, 2024 Matt

What a week to be goth! The Cure releases their first new music in sixteen years and now The Horrors, Faris Badwan and his crew of Robert Smith‘s musical descendants…

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Paige Kennedy decides not to live “Life In Fear” on new single

October 4, 2024 Matt

Being yourself, your true authentic self is something many of us will encounter in our lives. Those who don’t or aren’t able to may be living in fear of judgment,…

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ALPHABET’s debut single “Artificial Light” shines brightly

September 27, 2024 Matt

Relative babes in arms ALPHABET have only been playing live for around a year or so. While that’s probably akin to a decade to any eager new band seeking to…

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A Place For Owls ponder the Earth’s plight on their new single “broken open seed”

September 13, 2024 Matt

Self-described as a Denver, Colorado-based emo band, A Place For Owls is an emotive guitar five-piece that has been crafting a brand new album how we dig in the earth,…

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Wings of Desire command us to “Shut Up And Listen” on their new EP

September 6, 2024 Matt

As the hazy, anthemic wash of guitars and dual vocals surrounds you on the opening title track of this four-track EP, you’re transported into an energetic musical world bristling with…

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DU BLONDE announces “Sniff More Gritty” album and lead single “TV Star”

August 29, 2024 Matt

Pink-loving polymath Du Blonde (aka Beth Jeans Houghton) strums her way through the melancholy intro of “TV Star” with jangling indie rock grit and an almost detached melancholy as she…

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Bottlemoth launches more bombastic indie folk salvos with a brace of new tracks

August 27, 2024 Matt

Hot on the heels of their debut single “Tattoo,” Bottlemoth, the indie-folk five-piece, have dropped surprise twin tracks, “You’ll Always Have Us” and “Everything Works Out In The End”, as…

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Ellur is searching for answers on soaring new single “God Help Me Now”

August 16, 2024 Matt

Ellur aka Ella McNamara is a profoundly thoughtful singer-songwriter. The word authentic gets bandied around a lot but here, on her new single, the title track to an upcoming EP,…

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Kelly Lee Owens drops summer “Sunshine” ahead of new album

August 16, 2024 Matt

With the British summer somewhat missing in action so far it’s up to Welsh producer Kelly Lee Owens to fill that void and drop an infectious and resolutely positive electronic…

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Half Waif shares moving new single “Figurine” from her upcoming album “See You At The Maypole”

August 9, 2024 Matt

Half Waif aka Nandi Rose has been a gentle, alluring presence on the music scene since she began sharing her highly personal stories a decade ago. Her diarist lilting approach…

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Half Happy mixes dream pop and post-punk on new single “Well Done Honey”

August 9, 2024 Matt

Like the honey mentioned in their new song, Welsh indie newcomers, Half Happy drip sweetly sung vocals into your ears on their new single. A diaphanous hazy summer sound features…

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Mould release their punchy melodic punk, debut ‘Mould’ EP

August 9, 2024 Matt

Mould is a rising power pop and punk inhabiting trio, bursting out of Bristol, England with the release of their debut Mould EP. Launching with the raucous “Cables,” a song…

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