Royel Otis have gone from strength to strength in the past couple of years. They’ve locked in slots at festivals like Glastonbury, won over a legion of fans with their 2024 debut album, and gone viral for their cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’. All of which have cemented the Sydney duo as ones to watch out for, and helped inspire their sophomore record, Hickey, a sonic exploration of young adulthood.
Late summer feels like the perfect time for the record to arrive: the songs coincide with the band’s sun-drenched aesthetic and, throughout the tracklist, guitarist Royel Madden and singer Otis Pavlovic proudly lean into what they do best. Woozy guitar lines are out in full force, accentuated by shimmering synths and…
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Cherry Red Records released not one, but two brand-new studio albums from 
GUSH refers to a rapid, plentiful flow and enthusiastic affection. 
Anand Wilder released his solo debut album 
Special 20 track 2LP is released to coincide with and celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Howard Jones’ iconic and best-selling album 
On the album 
Japanese legends 
Sombr has New York City under his spell. The 20-year-old had jusr stepped onto a stage assembled on Canal Street to the sound of piercing screams. His debut album I Barely Know Her was scheduled for release in a few hours, but the musician wanted the first introduction of these songs to happen on the same streets that exist within them. There were people perched on fire escapes, others watching from the ledge of wide open windows. Behind the provisional stage, cars passed by and buses trudged along to their next stop while passengers glanced curiously at the impromptu rock show that shut the street down. The scene was everything that the album is — enamored, uninhibited, steeped in sonder.
Jobber to the Stars is the debut full length of the quartet known as 
If Meg Duffy’s 
September 1971 wasn’t a happy time in Who world, even by their remarkably narky standards. Pete Townshend had lost the battle to turn his abandoned Lifehouse concept album into a movie, and a filmed band meeting to discuss where The Who should go next ended testily. Mercifully, relief suddenly arrived in the form of an invitation to headline a British version of the Concert For Bangladesh, George Harrison’s all-star fundraiser staged at Madison Square Garden the previous month. So the group stopped bickering, moved their new £20,000 PA system into a Wandsworth cinema, and began rehearsing for a September 18 show at the Oval cricket ground, also set to feature the Faces, Atomic Rooster, Mott The Hoople, Lindisfarne and more.
As 
Previously unreleased in full, this celebrated live performance recorded live in 1977 for WCOZ that originally appeared on “The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads” is available as a 2LP collection. Cut at 45rpm and featuring fourteen tracks (seven are previously unheard from the original two-track tapes) recorded at Northern Studios on November 17, 1977, this blistering performances includes “Psycho Killer”, “Pulled Up”, “Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town”, “A Clean Break (Let’s Work)” and more.
Like many great songwriters, 
Following their self-released fourth album, I Feel Alive, which, ironically, arrived a couple weeks into COVID-19 shutdowns in 2020, Montreal experimental pop darlings 
For Daniel Donato, the term “Cosmic Country” accounts for much more than just his quartet’s moniker. It also represents a musical and personal ethos. The journey and the destination. As the affable guitarist explained to Glide in a 2023 interview, “Cosmic Country is kind of like this tale as old as time. It’s the duality of things…You have this contrast of what is unknown with what is known…and it’s me trying to create a dance between those two things.” In truth, it is everything.