Bonus Room Drops New Single ‘Use 2’ Ahead of Debut EP
Portland indie outfit Bonus Room returns with 'Use 2,' a brooding and emotionally bare single that marks another leap forward in the band’s evolution. At once nostalgic and...
Martin Saint’s ‘Seekers’: Film Noir Letters from the Fog
Martin Saint's latest solo record, 'The Seekers,' hums like an exposed wire, warm to the touch and faintly dangerous. These are songs born in solitude but made to...
Rise Carmine unveils new EP and single ‘Come In Closer’
Toronto multi-instrumentalist Liam Colbert, better known as Rise Carmine, has signed with Paper Bag Records and announced a new EP arriving later this fall. Formerly releasing music under...
Pompey Drops New Single ‘Really Really Really Big Sweater’ Ahead of ‘I’m Scared’ LP
Montreal singer-songwriter Pompey has announced his fourth LP 'I'm Scared,' out September 5th, alongside the release of its lead single, 'Really Really Really Big Sweater.' The gentle, folk-tinged...
Edmonton’s Original Punks: The Nerve
There’s something about the Canadian prairie that makes good bands weird and weird bands unforgettable. Isolation breeds invention, but it also breeds a particular kind of aggression. Maybe...
‘Astor Place’: Edward Rogers’ ‘Romeo’ and the Ghost of Phil Lynott
'Romeo' opens like a journal entry whispered beneath the streetlamps of the East Village, where Edward Rogers now shapes sound with a poet’s ear and a wanderer’s memory....
Jonathan Richman Reflects on His New Album ‘Only Frozen Sky Anyway’
Jonathan Richman’s 'Only Frozen Sky Anyway' isn't a loud declaration. It is something rarer: a quiet and cohesive unfolding of songs that seem to arise from the atmosphere...
Luigi Porto’s Gabor ’25: A Chanson for the Vanished
In 'Gabor ’25,' Luigi Porto cracks open the shell of family mythology and lets memory spill out in sound and light. Think of this less as a song...
‘Theme for Narcoleptics’: Inside the Somnolent World of ‘SKANTAGIO’ and SQUANDERERS
The trio of Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs, and Kramer operates through instinct and intuition, carving delicate fissures in the fabric of sound. Their newest album, 'SKANTAGIO,' emerges not...
The Evolution of the Argentine Neo-Prog Scene from the ’80s to Today
Argentina’s progressive rock movement has long defied easy categorization, often shifting with waves of cultural upheaval. It really took shape in the 1970s, forging a distinctly local sound...