Rise Against are not the first punk band to embrace the trappings of arena rock, but few of their forerunners can say they moved between those opposing states with the confidence and style displayed here. Having spent two decades retrofitting the breakneck melodic hardcore of their early work with rafter-shaking hooks and gleaming production, the Chicago veterans’ 10th album is a hulking thing, its bombast and righteous anger fed by vocalist Tim McIlrath, who finds the middle ground between Strike Anywhere and Creedence Clearwater Revival more often than you might think possible.
Working in tandem with producer Catherine Marks, fresh from Grammy wins for her work on Boygenius’s The Record, and…
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Georgia Harmer’s sophomore album, 
For anyone familiar with Schitt’s Creek, the show’s stripped-back Tina Turner cover (and Patrick’s declaration of love for David) marked a wonderfully emotional moment – an opinion clearly shared by Canadian singer 
Black Honey’s fourth continues on their well-travelled path of taking influence from the silver screen, following the Tarantino-inspired Written & Directed, and the hints of Wes Anderson that came sprinkled across 
Before they had even settled on a name, 
Throughout the past 15 years, 
Bret McKenzie is a Grammy and Academy Award winning artist most well known for his band Flight of the Conchords and their eponymous television show. McKenzie is internationally renowned for singing and writing funny, strange, and unique songs primarily for film and television. Bret’s songs have been sung by Kermit the Frog, Celine Dion, Lizzo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brittany Howard, Homer and Lisa Simpson, Fred Armisan, Miss Piggy, Amy Adams, Jason Segal, Ricky Gervais, Benee, Isabela Merced, Spongebob Squarepants, Tony Bennett, Mickey Rooney, and more.
When it comes to 
“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song is about a farewell. The album ends with “Sad Satellite,” where the titular heavenly object is used as a metaphor for distance, when the gap is increasing between the narrator and the subject: the latter a character who is “sucking me dry” and “took me for ride”.
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Rough Trade Exclusive CD comes with two bonus tracks from 2023: “Original Sin” and “Mother.”
Radiohead have surprise-released an album of live recordings drawn from their 2003 album, Hail to the Thief. Recorded between the year of its release and the end of the In Rainbows tours in 2009, the 12-track album is newly mixed and mastered by Ben Baptie and Matt Colton, respectively.
Unavailable for almost 30 years in its own right, this collection from the Cold Spring archive has been repackaged and remastered with new art. This classic album exists as a document of the soundtrack work Psychic TV created for the many films and videos of Derek Jarman.
A companion album to 2024’s critically acclaimed My Light, My Destroyer, on My Light, My Massage Parlor 
For a young (or at least inexperienced) Western gay man, few places hold the combination of loaded history, excitement, and terror like the bathhouse. These hallowed public sex spaces have survived decades of on-and-off-again state targeting, and are often associated with a previous generation of gay men but always fetishized by an underdog contingent of the next. They’re places where people explicitly go to have sex while coyly pretending that’s not why they’re there — maybe they sit on gym equipment covered in cobwebs, or halfheartedly take a shower even though they did all their preparation beforehand. The lines of consent can become blurred, so you might have one of the best hookups of your life, or maybe get chased around and cornered by…
80s synth magic for the four-track mind. DIY outsider