…early bird vinyl pressing (limited to 400) comes with a bonus CD, the “dronus disc,” a standalone drone piece the band want played simultaneously with the album itself.
On their 2026 album do you love the color of the sky? the intrepid shoegaze explorers Dummy continue to alter their template and come ever closer to fully integrating the Avant Garde and dreamy pop instincts that are their guiding tenets. Their previous album Free Energy saw them adding new age and experimentally soft sounds to the mix, here they strip them away and go for a more direct, if still at times challenging, approach. Pairing cloudy drifts of lush shoegaze guitar with thrumming drum & bass-inspired rhythms on many tracks, the overall feel of the record…
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Punk supergroup Fake Names return with 
There is an authenticity to the music of South Carolina’s Winyah that can’t be faked.
In the early ‘90s, Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer were living in Olympia, Washington, barely out of high school and finding themselves in the very heart of the just-forming riot grrrl scene. Inspired by the feminist politics and exciting rethinking of what punk rock was capable of that defined the riot grrrl movement, the duo formed 
The 2LP set pairs the original album with a specially curated collection of B-sides, showcasing the depth and creativity surrounding the 
The guitars gather like a thundercloud, buzzing with electricity, threaded through with the sweet smirk of melody. On their fifth full-length, the loud but tuneful San Francisco outfit known as 
Exclusively reissued on CD for the first time in over twenty years, presented in Deluxe 7” sized packaging with 2CDs featuring the album newly mastered, plus a comprehensive selection of the best of the original era remixes. Also features brand new sleeve notes written by author Kevin Sampson, The Farm’s former manager.
Brighton folk-rockers Levellers have been one of Britain’s most enduring and best-loved bands for nearly 40 years. And part of that incredible success has been built on the timeless anthems that comprised their platinum-selling, second album 
What hits first about Manchester Orchestra’s debut, 
The sound of a band expanding their universe – growing bigger and bolder with each record – never loses its thrill. Upon their arrival in 2017, in an era when guitar music was regularly declared to be in terminal decline, 
Philosophising about life comes naturally to Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett. On his 16th studio album, 
Jonathan Personne is the solo alias of Jonathan Robert, a Montreal-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and frontman for Sub Pop band Corridor. His fifth album under the alias is a lovely sweet of dreamy psych-pop with Jonathan largely singing in French atop his warm, lush, welcoming arrangements.
Being cynical, feeling a bit jaded: it’s a common condition when it comes to a genre as well established as rock. So when someone tells you about a new band doing interesting things in a grungy, punk-pop vein, it can be all too easy to roll your eyes and assume that it’s all been done before, and better. But sometimes curiosity wins out, you press play, and a song like “GirlVsHeart” hits you full in the face with crashing drums and gleefully thrashing guitar. Instantly you’re hooked and lock into a record that turns out to be a stomping joyride of youthful angst and, along the way, offers up a few surprises.
Sometimes, a new album’s opening track shows you a band picking up right where they left off. In 2024, Philly indie rockers 
Have you ever watched a band perform and known, without a doubt, that they were on the cusp of becoming far, far bigger than they are in the moment you’re seeing them? If you’re a regular concertgoer, you’ve known the feeling of watching bands perform that will never outgrow their enclosures, and you’ve also known what it feels like when one is about to have a growth spurt. In 2025, a year and a half after the release of We’re Starting to Look Like Each Other, the debut album of Atlanta emo-folk duo hey, nothing, they performed at Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party. Despite sharing a time slot with indie-rock legends Built to Spill, the teenage duo Tyler Mabry and Harlow Philips delivered a performance that put the minds of anyone who skipped out…
Everyone Says Hi return with their second album 
There’s a charming spit-and-sawdust quality to Linda’s Head, the new album from 
The Smashing Times do one thing and they do it really well; make catchy, jangling guitar pop that sounds like it was recorded in the bottom of a well. Inspired by other fidelity challenged bands like Guided by Voices, Television Personalities, and Times New Viking, they add some freshness to the bloodline. Their 2019 debut cassette EP