Roy Montgomery and Martha Skye Murphy extend their thing on Nebular, penning a suite of widescreen dreampop epics that harness all their separate strengths into a fizzing artmelt – tipped FFO Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd, Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine and lovesliescrushing.
It didn’t take much for Montgomery and Murphy to connect. All Murphy did was include one of Mongomery’s songs on a mixtape and the conversations that followed led them to spot harmonies in their approaches to music: they both recorded to a Tascam multitrack recorder, for one. And if you’ve been following either artist, you’ll have noticed their collaborations bubbling up through the cracks in the last few years. Murphy appeared on Montgomery’s…
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Avon’s lesser-hailed, glam ‘80s synth-pop and new wave movement is spotlighted in-depth via 20 songs compiled by studio engineer Dave Massey, who smartly portrays the breadth and quality of an ‘80s blindspot.
Multiple BMA winner, vocalist, songwriter, and song interpreter 
An abandoned cathedral. A gruesome murder. A powerful supernatural entity living in the catacombs. It all comes to a head in downtown Los Angeles. What will happen and who will live to tell the tale? Such is the storyline of 
John Darnielle looks back with wry fondness on this 24th full-length album, revisiting obscure events and semi-famous people in his typically arch and literate way. Music figures prominently in this gallery of memories — he dedicates one song to the prog band Renaissance’s 1976 date at Carnegie Hall, another to a mythical opening slot for grungy Candlebox, still another to the speed metal band, Venom, “hollering cocaine.”
In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, American mythologist Joseph Campbell uses tales from antiquity to chart the “Hero’s Journey,” the cyclical sequence of departure, initiation, and return which serves as the basis for mythic narrative. While this may ring true in the world of fables, practically speaking, I’ve always found personal journeys to resemble curves rather than circles; soft arcs of change that bend imperceptibly, but eventually, toward resolution. Oakland recording artist 
What does it look like when the family business is music? In the case of The Family — a kind of “supergroup” made up of singer-songwriter 
Scarborough-based 
In the mid ’60s, Chess Records released a series of 
Fondly referred to as “The Rockin’ Chair Album” due to the depiction of a rocking chair on its cover, 
Multi-instrumentalist 
A sobriquet that could be applied to the pianist Bill Evans is “the poet of the jazz piano,” as he more than almost any other pianist combined technical mastery with emotional restraint, creating music that feels introspective rather than demonstrative. Every pianist who has ever fallen under Evans’ spell has eventually faced the same dilemma. One choice leads to imitation, while the other leads to finding your own voice, carrying Evans’ influence. 
Latin America is a true musical universe – a fusion of countless influences, genres and references layered in endless ways. One undeniable representative of this universe is the Argentine trio 
Few artists treat genre with the same radical disregard for boundaries as Willow Smith, who has steadily emerged as a singular architect of modern sound by blending disparate styles with striking vocal agility. The sheer momentum of her recent output reveals an artist relentlessly chasing new sonic horizons. Arriving just five months after February’s petal rock black, her eighth solo studio album, The Thread, marks her second full-length project of 2026. This tireless work ethic has fueled a stunningly compressed evolutionary arc. She transitions from the distorted pop-punk rhythms of 2021’s 
Music ebbs and flows, as 
The feedback loop between video games and music runs deep. Obviously, there’s music’s enriching influence on games — see the banging, drum & bass sensibility of the Wipeout racing series. Going the other way, the interactive medium’s aesthetics and sensibility have wormed their way into the output of a new generation of artists like Bladee; the Swedish rapper’s records are so jam-packed with deep-lore nuggets and sonic worldbuilding flourishes that they almost feel like video games in and of themselves. As listeners, we don’t just listen: we enter.
The new full-length from Laurie Sara-Smith and Lifeguard’s Asher Case is an experimental, feverish portrayal of physical repetition built from guitars, drum machines, and woodwinds.