• Recommended Album: This Is Lorelei – ‘Holo Boy’

    Recommended Album: This Is Lorelei – ‘Holo Boy’

    A re-recorded scrapbook collection of Nate Amos’ pre-fame work reveals an always-existent refined indie-pop pen with a knack for always being ahead of the curve.

  • Draag – “Miracle Drug”

    Draag – “Miracle Drug”

    The title track off the Los Angeles experimental dream-pop band’s new EP takes hold of the body as a sonic war inward projected out.

  • Sad13 – “Dr. Christmas”

    Sad13 – “Dr. Christmas”

    Andy Williams probably didn’t account for telling these kind of scary ghost stories on the latest installment to Sad13’s annual holiday song collection…

  • Buzz Sound: Nyxy Nyx

    Buzz Sound: Nyxy Nyx

    ‘Cult Classics Vol. 1’ isn’t overstating its title — the prolific Philly DIY band are the true sound of the modern shoegaze underground made with no filters and only devotion.

  • LAPÊCHE – “I Heart NY”

    LAPÊCHE – “I Heart NY”

    In these dead end stages of the year, the balanced out melodic commotion behind the latest single from ‘Autotelic’ sorts out the Brooklyn rockers in sound.

  • The 15 Best EPs of 2025

    The 15 Best EPs of 2025

    The extended play sort of lost its way in 2025, but these artists made the most of their moments with the 15 Best EPs of 2025.

  • Backengrillen – “A Hate Inferior”

    Backengrillen – “A Hate Inferior”

    From the ashes of Refused, the experimental noisecore band channel modern life’s abominations into an artform before they eat away at you.

  • Robber Robber – “Suspicious Minds” (Elvis Presley Cover)

    Robber Robber – “Suspicious Minds” (Elvis Presley Cover)

    Get caught in a trap of the rising Burlington indie rockers’ noisy guitar-pop distortion of the King’s 1969 classic.

  • The Best Hardcore & Metal Scene Albums of 2025

    The Best Hardcore & Metal Scene Albums of 2025

    The reactionary effects of a scene hardening its exteriors is really taking effect, but there’s still plenty of room in the pit for thinking person’s emo, impassioned post-hardcore, and those teetering fine lines with the Best Hardcore & Metal Scene Albums of 2025.

  • Aramis – ‘9’

    Aramis – ‘9’

    The Enumclaw frontman’s new bedroom-pop solo album hits close to the heart and has that quiet, cozy long, lonely December listen written all over it.


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