Between Nada Surf and Bambi Kino: An Interview with Ira Elliot
Most people still try to define Nada Surf by 'Popular.' Talk to the band’s drummer, Ira Elliot, though, and you realize how quickly he moves past it. He...
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Primitive Ring Unleash ‘Lies From The Other Side’ from Upcoming Self-Titled Debut
Primitive Ring don’t ease you in, and 'Lies From The Other Side' makes that clear within seconds. The new single, out now via In The Red Records, is...
The Vanished Singer, The Fading Vision: Adrian Jarvis on Deep Purple and Vile Jelly
Adrian Jarvis does not write about illness as abstraction or metaphor, though Vile Jelly, published by Stairway Press, contains elements of both. What he offers instead is more...
Dar Stellabotta on building her own instruments and making ‘Into Thin Air’
Dar Stellabotta’s 'Into Thin Air' comes from a very specific place. The songs started after the end of a three-year relationship, during a period where writing felt unavoidable....
The Lotus Matter Interview: ‘In Limbo Pt. 1’ and the Shape of an Unfinished Work
The Lotus Matter are a band that clearly outgrew their origins. Formed in 2017 and reshaped through lineup changes, they moved away from progressive death metal toward something...
C.A. Quintet Trip Thru Hell Returns: One of Psych Rock’s Darkest Holy Grails Recut for 2026
The C.A. Quintet return to Trip Thru Hell with a 2026 remaster, the one and only underground psych collector’s favourite, long held up as one of the darkest...
‘Heavy Petting’ at 55: Dr. Strangely Strange Take Psych Folk Further
By the time 'Heavy Petting' appeared in September 1970, Dr. Strangely Strange were already slipping out of the place that had made them. Not in any dramatic, career...
Inside ‘Keep On Rising’: Mrs. Henry’s All-In Rock Opera Gamble
Mrs. Henry don’t ease you into 'Keep On Rising.' It just drops you in the middle of it. Thirty-eight songs, three acts, one overstuffed rock opera about a...
Void Resurfaces: Lost Hardcore Punk Recordings from DC’s Outer Edge — Interview
Void’s 'Live 1982' is out now on Outer Battery Records, finally bringing two long-buried DC recordings into the open. For a long time, these recordings barely existed as...
Robin Trower on the Live! 50th Anniversary Reissue: The Night in Stockholm, As It Really Happened
Fifty years on, 'Live!' comes back sounding less like the record we thought we knew, and more like what actually happened. Out on 3 April through Chrysalis, the...