Daniel Benyamin Announces Double Album, Shares Lead Single ‘Holding Hands’
Daniel Benyamin is back. The European underground fixture just dropped 'Holding Hands,' the lead single from his upcoming sophomore solo album, 'Life After Music.' Set for release on...
Savage Beat Unleash ‘Unhinged’ from Upcoming Album ‘Bright Lights, Tall Shadows’
Amsterdam's own Savage Beat are back with their second full-length album, 'Bright Lights, Tall Shadows,' dropping March 6 on Wap Shoo Wap Records. Known for their trademark "street...
‘Act Like Sisters’ by Pearl | New Album, ‘Love And Grief’
There’s a certain kind of tension that only bubbles up in basements and back rooms, the kind where the floor feels like it might give out before the...
American Sharks Return With ‘Going Insane,’ Their First New Ripper In Five Years
It’s been half a decade since we last heard from American Sharks. In the timeline of a greased-up, high-velocity rock band from Austin, five years of radio silence...
Pastel Blank Announce Debut Album ‘Unmade in Minutes,’ Share New Song ‘Shareholder’
Montréal art-rock outfit Pastel Blank have announced their debut album, 'Unmade in Minutes'. The record arrives April 24 via Paper Bag Records. To accompany the announcement, bandleader Angus...
Hush Drift into Focus with New Single ‘Phasing’
The strength of Montreal’s psych community lies in its insularity, a tight-knit circuit where frequent cross-pollination refines the sound. Hush is the latest reconfiguration of this lineage, a...
Chevreuil Breaks 20 Year Silence with ‘Stadium’ and Streams First Single ‘Tartarus’
Two decades constitutes a geological epoch in the timeline of French avant-rock. That is the precise duration of the silence broken by Chevreuil. The duo of Julien F....
Rok Zalokar: Opening the Structures — Inside ‘Pieces for Collective Change’
On 'Pieces for Collective Change,' pianist and composer Rok Zalokar pushes Zhlehtet toward a denser, more tactile ensemble language, one where composition behaves more like a fluid dialogue....
Leadbetter Band on Fatherhood, Sobriety, and Their New Album ‘Spell’
After 25 years and 11 albums, the Leadbetter Band’s latest release, Spell, arrives with a striking sense of focus. Written after the frontman embraced sobriety and fatherhood, the...
The Nordic Trance of Hanna & Jerry’s ‘Relaxed’
It takes a refined touch to make the sitar sound native to the Scandinavian wilderness, but Hanna Östergren and Jerry Johansson have managed exactly that. With 'Relaxed,' they...