‘III’ is incredibly refreshing because it refuses to let a short runtime limit its scale. Despite its brief running time, the record’s ambition is enormous. It’s loaded with literary nods, twisty rhythms, and hooks that stick the landing. The band even teases itself for being so clever. They seem to know that a curious mind is at its most powerful when it’s having fun.

‘Desire Path’ is an album about the paths we take through our own past, especially when the reality of what happened doesn’t match what we remember. Absolutely Yours take these questions and surround them with bright guitar playing and melodies that sound instantly familiar giving a sense of warmth and protection.

‘Very Beginning of Red Go-Cart’ documents a band learning through imitation, home recording, live performance, experimentation, and sheer enthusiasm. Thirty years later, the songs retain the exhilaration of that discovery because they were made before red go-cart had any obligation to live up to a reputation.

What lingers after the fourteen songs is not any single stylistic reference but the band’s ability to make limitation feel liberating. Los Costones do not need elaborate arrangements or immaculate surfaces. They have guitars, drums, Farfisa, voices, and a remarkable instinct for repetition.

The Drin possess a sense of humor that prevents the album’s darker ideas from becoming self-important. A title can sound ominous, ridiculous or both, and the music leaves room for that ambiguity. This is important because beneath the strange surfaces of ‘I Lost My Way For Centuries’ is a band making very deliberate decisions about rhythm, timbre and repetition.

And they are loud, though not in a blunt way. Harms uses a tuning borrowed from Elliott Smith’s whispery, close-up style and then cranks it to a level that would probably have made Smith wince. Strange as that may sound, it works, because the confession never drowns in the noise.

Paul Banks and Dan Kessler bring new life to Interpol via the excellent new This Mirror Weighs A Ton record.

Vantablack is a literary splatterpunk chamber doom/drone band founded by Scottish author Chris Kelso and composer Nick Hudson and Stuart Dahlquist.

Minnesota folk band Wren + Wilde explores the tension between heartache and hope on its debut album, Serial Dreamers.

There’s something truly special about Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet.

Growing up in New York, Mark Newman’s musical journey has taken him around the world several times as both sideman and singer/songwriter.

Legendary jazz and hip-hop fusionists Us3 serve up a refreshingly tasty treat with their much-anticipated 11th album, Snap, Crackle & Bop!

Hailing from the coastal town of Bexhill in East Sussex, Korda Korder have emerged as one of the UK’s most exciting dream-pop prospects.

Burlington behind him and the world before him, Greg Freeman presents his best yet: a beautiful rock record the likes of which we rarely see done this well.

Quiz Show’s “XONO” is guitar heavy and oddly buoyant, pairing punk bite with a funky pulse and a vocal that keeps the song playful even as the lyrics look at a relationship coming apart.

“The Room” carries the optimism of travelling through somewhere completely new, its guitar and drums continually pausing, resetting, and pulling the song forward.

Delerium and Diamanda Galás take “Into The Light” from dark, distorted tension into something stranger and almost trance-like, with synths and small strings gradually bringing light into the track without losing what made the opening so unsettling.

Nearly four decades into their story, Jack’s Maze return with “Let It Go,” a dark, expansive rock single about the strange point where music stops being escape and starts following you everywhere.

A vintage British masterclass in hard rock and pop finally finds its first release, thanks to Just Add Water.

Fanny Alexandra returns with “Black Pearl Summer”, a melodic new single that explores pressure, grief, survival and the beauty that can emerge from difficult experiences.

With a career spanning over two decades and nearly 20 film and television placements, the Minneapolis-based songwriter has built a reputation on melody, grit, and an unwavering commitment to the craft.

New England darkwave/post-punk outfit Ghost Painted Sky confront the allure and consequences of bad decisions on ‘Kissing Lions’, their new single and video

Hailing from Roanoke, Virginia, The Stray Lions are an indie rock band known for crafting atmospheric soundscapes, memorable melodies, and emotionally resonant songwriting.

“In the Silence of the Hills” is Moon and Aries at their most intimate and organic – a drumless cinematic composition about stepping away from the noise of the busy life and rediscovering connection, nature and stillness.

Poke a Brain is a Cleveland area music project representing original compositions performed by its founder and collaborating musicians and singers.

Dave Hill Jr. is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter, drummer, and author of Doubt Riding Shotgun.

It’s been a while since the prolific saxophonist, flautist, and composer Henry Threadgill assembled his Pulitzer Prize-winning band Zooid for an album.

Cindy Lawson is an American singer/songwriter—a sweet and sassy mix of Ronnie Spector and Iggy Pop—who began her rock and roll career in Minneapolis in 1985 with her all-female rock band, The Clams.

Fernando’s Eyes is the solo project of Fernando Honorato, founder and vocalist of Swedish post-punk band Principe Valiente.

the black watch has been called “a national treasure” with “27 CDs of remarkable consistency.”

After four singles over the last year, The Snow Ponies finally release their debut album!

M3G is a singer-songwriter from Chippenham in Wiltshire, UK. She’s been writing music as long as she can remember and performing live since she was 14. Inspired by the likes of Florence Welch, AURORA and dodie, her music mixes authentic lyrics with soaring vocals.

“Dark Sister” is Death Dealer Union’s new song… a dark, relentless collision of crushing riffs, visceral screams, haunting melodies and cinematic atmosphere

A first-generation Honduran-American of Garifuna descent, IKP brings a deeply personal perspective to their artistry, shaped by their cultural heritage and experiences as a United States Marine Corps wartime veteran.

Australian power-pop rockers The Summertimes have signed with one of the world’s leading indie record labels, Golden Robot Records, and will release a new EP in October 2026.

The House Flies are a four-piece dark alternative/post-punk band from Moline, Illinois.

Get Together brings together China’s Summer Fades Away and US duo Vaudlow, who first met at Asia’s largest post-rock festival, Offside.

Bristol-based singer-songwriter Lady Nade returns with ‘Identity’, her deeply personal fourth studio album.

The seventh installment in Perelman’s long-running series of duet albums and the fiftieth (maybe?) joint with Shipp, the two-volume Distillation celebrates the duo’s pearl anniversary in the only appropriate way – with another collection of spontaneous compositions.

With debut album A Sense of Danger arriving on 29 October, Southeast London’s The Pixel Rain offer its final advance single now.

LiVES return with blistering new single ‘Burn’, taken from their forthcoming album Ghosts (due for release 29/01/27)

Singer-songwriter Sean Hopkins, rooted in the arts community of New Hope, PA—situated between New York City and Philadelphia—is known for his evocative folk and indie guitar work.

Californian singer and guitarist Pembroke Tenneson has unveiled his new single, “Sex Appeal.”

Minneapolis-based band The Del-Viles showcase a brisk, energized rock appeal across their debut album It’s Just a Kiss-Off.

“The Ascension,” is the breathtaking new live release from Indian progressive Carnatic rock pioneers AGAM

Dulldrums is the Manchester, UK-based project from married musicians Matt and Rachel—formerly of the band Mewn.

Charlie Sly is a Cheltenham-based artist who has spent years honing their craft, transforming personal experiences of loss, love, and uncertainty into emotionally resonant indie music.

Thirty years after seeing the Sex Pistols at Dallas’ Longhorn Ballroom, I returned to the same venue for another chapter in the band’s history—this time without Johnny Rotten.

Arlo Parks has always known how to make a room full of strangers feel understood. She brought her signature warmth and vulnerability to Dallas, pairing the poetic intimacy of her music with a new dose of synth-driven energy. At The Granada Theater, new songs from Ambiguous Desire brought bursts of momentum while Arlo’s older hits transformed a mellow Tuesday night into something closer to a collective exhale – proof that Parks can evolve her sound without losing the honesty and empathy that make her so compelling.

UK based instrument maker debuts a harrowing work of magic and majesty.

With Body Without Organs, Jeremy Moore expands the artistic vision of AD Ozium into its most ambitious statement to date.

The new album from the indie-americana four-piece was released via Honey Badger Records on limited edition vinyl and is the result of years of self-funding releases, sacrifice, relentless touring and steadily building an audience through sheer perseverance.

Fowler’s liner notes claim these songs were improvised, but it’s difficult to believe on the evidence of your ears.

Built on a foundation of haunting melodies, crisp percussion, and Father Chocolate’s commanding vocal delivery, the single captures a mood that is both menacing and deeply vulnerable.

“Hell has frozen over” is a rock anthem for anyone who has ever felt gaslit, overlooked, dismissed, or painfully alone.

Apple Eyes is the London-based musical partnership of Claire Hadidjenar and Matthew Walker, a duo whose international backgrounds bring a rich cultural dimension to their sound.

‘River Shook’ is about becoming more honest, but honesty here does not mean presenting a polished portrait of personal growth. Shook admits to struggle, vulnerability, bad judgment and uncertainty. They also recognize that a path isn’t a life sentence, you can always choose a different route if you have the fortitude.

The album’s most fascinating quality may be its willingness to let uncertainty ring out. Hornyak taught himself cello and harp for this project while returning to the piano training of his childhood, allowing the limitations of newly acquired technique to become part of the journey.

Its greatest pleasure lies in how much imaginative space Attic Room discovers inside such a small sonic room. By the final notes of “becoming winter,” the attic no longer seems like somewhere to hide. It has become somewhere to listen, remember, and secure enough to perhaps understand yourself a little better.

The group has built its identity around absence, allowing these recordings to become the events. There are no personalities to chase, no stage mythology to consume. There is only the work.

Independent singer-songwriter and recording artist Patrick Doval unveils a cinematic new music video for his latest Rock single, with drums performed by former The Offspring drummer Pete Parada

“Tokyo Rose” is the third single from Fierce Friend’s forthcoming album Blood Red Hills & The Uncanny Valley.

Plastic Crimewave, visual artist/musician Sara Gossett, and producer Bobby Conn team up for a second offering of kosmische bliss.

Music by Jeremy is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Banbury, England, making his debut with a project that defies the usual boundaries of a first release.

Firefly Search Party is a quirky couple of humans making honest music with our friends in the search for connection, light, and to make something beautiful with our time together.

British rock powerhouse Courtney Hadwin has released her newest single, “Whatcha Gunna Do?!”

Anthology releases a 50th anniversary edition of underground phenom Robert Lester Folsom’s Music and Dreams with bonus LP of demos.

Zachary is a 29-year-old artist based in Guildford, UK. Since the spring of 2021, Zachary has created between 200 and 250 demo tracks on a recording kit gifted to him by a relative.

Saxophonist and composer Kevin Sun gets busy with his eight and ninth solo albums by releasing them at the same time.

The new single from Awake & Dreaming, “Underwater” comes via their upcoming full-length debut Inevitable.

Milo Jones is an NYC-based American singer-songwriter whose off-kilter style will endear and engage fans of folk, the 70s, and (lyric-wise) Zappa heads everywhere.

Four years after their critically acclaimed EP, “The Summer Tree”, St. Paul’s JoJo Green returns with Paint the Sky – Part 1, a unique and diverse five-song collection that finds the band stretching its iconic eclectic sound

Poems For Dead People / Intertitle is a collaborative project that inhabits the space between dark electronic music, spoken word, and cinematic storytelling

Cabaret Voltaire hits Boston as Stephen Mallinder and crew do their final victory lap, celebrating 50 years of pioneering electronic music.

Costa Rican alternative rock project Proyecto Escapulario have released their new single and video, ‘Cuasrán’, inspired by the Indigenous Boruca people, their strong territorial and cultural continuity, and their ancestral connection with the natural world.

From busking on the streets of Camden to selling out shows around the world, Cam Cole has built his career by following his own path

Twenty-plus years into her extraordinary career, pianist Kris Davis continues to grow.

EverWill is the solo rock project of Nebraska-born artist Will Griffey, a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter turning personal experiences into powerful, high-energy anthems.

Put simply, MonstroCity is an album that wanted to be made, and Shansylvania is the band that was destined to make it.

Songwriter Scott Allen draws inspiration from personal history and life lessons. He uses both memories and significant experiences to shape the storylines, often focusing on moments shared with others.

UK music sorcerer Fran Ashcroft has shaped pop history from both sides of the glass—from his own band The Monos! to producing Damon Albarn and working at Abbey Road.

The Graceland Conspiracy is the new dream-pop project created by Colin Crooks, previously a member of PBR Streetgang, who released several singles through the legendary Northern Irish label Good Vibrations.

Throughout the album, the pianist shifts between easy control and almost total abandon.

Fools Arcade is an alternative indie band known for their eclectic sound, driving rhythms, and rich harmonies, hailing from Leeds, UK.

Cable Street Riot is an anonymous solo project from Los Angeles blending post-punk, dark electronics, industrial textures and atmosphere

The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor, commissioned by The Joyce Theater and Factory International, is a magnificent, trend-bucking contemporary dance tribute to the late Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor, conceived and directed by Brooklyn-born, Detroit-raised, Tony Award-winning choreographer Sonya Tayeh (who won for Moulin Rouge! The Musical).

Raised On Candy let “Pickle Eyes” reveal itself gradually, moving from wiry tension into layered guitars, exposed vocals, explosive drums, and a final surge that makes its opening feel deceptively small.

Grant’s passion is bringing American history (including our native peoples) and culture to life with his music. So far, his AMERICAN STORIES album series has captured the essence of the Dust Bowl, Appalachia, and the Mississippi River.

Francesco Virgilio’s multidisciplinary electronic project explores existence, wonder, adolescence and loss across four interconnected tracks and accompanying films.

Energy Whores, the genre-defying electronic project led by New York songwriter, vocalist and producer Carrie Schoenfeld, release Invisible (Four Ways)

Rising artist Ava Renn returns with her latest single, ‘Sellout’s Prelude’, an ethereal and emotionally immersive release that explores the fragile space between self-destruction and self-preservation.

London-based independent alt-pop artist Zoë Zohar combines live, raw instrumentation with electronic experimentation and a subversive undertone.

Where rhythmic experimentation meets a love for grand, cinematic melody, this three-piece collective mix a technical art-rock precision soulful rawness.

A Sirens call across brooding oceans, ‘Take Me To The Sea’ exists in the haze where the sky meets the sea; an ethereal, whispered longing.

Harley DiNardo’s music lives somewhere between the heartland honesty of The Black Crowes, the swagger of The Rolling Stones, the melodic sensibility of Britpop.

Sean MacLeod is an Irish singer-songwriter, composer, producer and author whose music combines melodic indie pop, alternative rock, folk, psychedelia and experimental influences with thoughtful, philosophical songwriting.

McEwen doesn’t seem interested in proving anything. He’s simply following a set of songs wherever they lead, and the result is an intimate, quietly affecting album that becomes more compelling with each listen.

This is music that prefers sweat to sheen, distortion to precision, and a good getaway plan to another hour of doomscrolling.

Fuel For The Fire works best as a document of an artist returning to his younger self without simply trying to recreate him, and four decades later, Goldberg has given these old recordings room to become something new.

Hailing from High Wycombe, Broken Colours are a four-piece indie outfit who draw on the funked-up, rocky sensibilities to delivery truly electrifying performances.

‘Feasting 2026 (HK Mix)’ releases today as a bold reinvention of ‘Feasting on my friends’, the B-side from The Sway’s very first single.

Luke Haines and Mike Smalle pull an 1887 Irish American song into a tense electronic present on “The Black Maria, O,” where antique criminal slang, synthetic pulse, and gathering metallic chaos make history feel strangely immediate.

Eddie Skuller’s “House Where Nobody Lives” reframes Tom Waits’ abandoned-house ballad through tender melody, live-tape intimacy, and a quietly bruised sense of what love leaves behind.

Formed in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2024, SUNTWIST is an indie rock band that pairs energetic songwriting with catchy melodies and a sound that feels both nostalgic and refreshingly modern.

“Run” is the third single from Tallulah’s seventh album, Only Human.

Alternative dream rock four-piece Leem of Earth is entering a new creative chapter in 2026 with ‘SEE’, an ambitious concept album inspired by George MacDonald’s Victorian-era fairy tale The Princess and Curdie.

New York rock outfit Hazel Gaze bring a distinctly live-driven energy to their latest project, Strung Out: Live & Unplugged at the Brooklyn Conservatory, a recorded and visual performance that revisits the spirit of the classic unplugged sessions of the 1990s and 2000s.

If you’re in the market for a mainstream jazz pianist, Benny Green has a hell of a CV.

I Plead Irony are three long-time friends making alternative rock with punk and blues fringes, pairing dark themes, dry humour and a persistent fascination with contradiction.

Melodic, emotionally raw indie singer-songwriter Brendan Ranney returns after 19 years with Slightly Out of Focus.

Jess Yaffa is a New York City-based alternative-pop artist entering a new chapter in her music, one built entirely on her own terms.

The single carries that worn Americana space beautifully. It brushes against country without dressing itself in full country costume, western in its dust and plainness, but still tied to the folk-rock instinct that has shaped Lapides’ songwriting for decades.

Chris Connelly’s “Nothin’ But A Rock Song” turns Lou Reed’s 1974 voltage into a collage of sneer, glamour, cigarette smoke, media memory, and rock attitude, where surface carries its own kind of intelligence.

Beauty In Chaos and Ashton Nyte return to one another on “Home,” a restrained, intimate single that finds its force in space, recognition, and the quiet certainty of belonging.

Robin Ross and Carmine Gontz turn “Blood Lines” into a heavy, full hearted rock song about family as something inherited, carried, survived, and passed forward.

Longing, emotional distance and unresolved desire lie at the heart of ‘I Could Love You’, the new single and video from Charlotte, North Carolina indie-electronic / synthpop project Midniter.

Lowsunday’s Low Sunday Ghost Machine – Black EP turns their long return into something beautifully exact, carrying shimmer, distortion, loneliness, and melody through songs that make old ache feel newly legible.

Liverpool post-punk veterans The Room pull “Things Have Learnt to Walk That Ought to Crawl” back into motion, turning an early cult track into a sharp, jangling blast of doom-pop momentum.

Ecce Shnak’s “Anna O” pushes psychological captivity into a heightened art rock escape scene, with grunge weight, jagged vocals, and a video that brings the song’s inner conflict into view.

Swaggering in with an indie-rock kind of style and a silver-screen sensibility, ‘RUBBERNECK’ is the amalgam of Robyn Maddox’s acerbic wit, gymnastic vocals and a talent for writing a delicious hook.

GU-RU is the musical project of Leicester-based artist Gurulee, whose adventurous approach to composition channels the golden era of 70s prog and jazz fusion through a distinctly contemporary lens.

Los Angeles-based alternative indie rock duo CA in LA has released their highly anticipated Hindsight (Deluxe Edition), an expanded reissue of their debut album, featuring two new singles released earlier this summer.

‘Shaving A Dead Man’ stands as a persuasive reminder that tradition remains most vital when musicians treat it as ever evolving and never stagnant. JP Harris seems not interested in modernizing these songs for the sake of reputation, nor does he lapse into imitation. He embodies them through performance.

All these songs work together to let out a feeling. The music feels big and airy. The music never feels lost or empty. The music stays smart without losing any of the heart, leaving an impression of having witnessed something that cannot quite be described directly.

Ultimately, the album’s core revelation is also its simplest: just because something is fleeting doesn’t mean it didn’t matter. It makes connections precious. Soft Science transforms that realization into music of unusual warmth and scale, creating songs that shimmer precisely because they know everything around them can shift.

The Buttons, Glasgow’s purveyors of shimmering psychedelic pop, continue their prolific journey with their fifth studio album.

Strange DNA is a dark pop project exploring identity, transformation and the feeling of searching for where you truly belong.

The Tape Sessions brings together ten tracks charting the sound of Lincoln four-piece Sola across the mid-to-late 1990s

CANNING…having been brought up in and out of the Chicago rock scene, has endured to keep true to its roots of authenticity, diversity and individuality.

Although the title is a suitably incendiary choice for artists based in West Coast rap’s most sacred ground, here, in the current age, the revolution is more subliminal and subtle.

The official music video for Rebekah Snyder’s “The Fiddle Player Stays” out now.

Christ and The Machines is a project exploring the space between faith, technology, and human emotion.

FarFarAway is a nostalgic, high-voltage throwback to an era when mixtapes and legendary skate and snowboard videos were the ultimate soundtrack to discovering new artists.

Founded by songwriter and guitarist Rick Harkness, Criminal Hero is a Canadian rock project born in Toronto, shaped in Detroit, and now based in Vancouver.

Drawing from a lifetime of experiences that stretch far beyond her Southeast Kansas upbringing, Lisa has built a catalog of songs that invite listeners into deeply personal moments while revealing something universal about the human experience.

Set for release on November 13th, August Benjamin is the culmination of two generations of songwriting coming together.

What makes The Mind Room compelling is its commitment to mood. This isn’t background electronic music, nor is it conventionally song-driven. It asks for attention and rewards it with a world that feels eerie, intimate and deliberately unresolved.

Thought Bubbles isn’t interested in tidying up its contradictions, and that’s a big part of its charm. It sounds like musicians with enough history behind them to know the rules, and enough curiosity to ignore them.

Sitting somewhere between the composition-oriented fusion of bands like the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the melodic, virtuoso fury of early King Crimson, Quiet Sun made music that boggles the minds of music nerds, while still being easy to groove on.

Rain Steam Speed takes J.M.W. Turner’s 1844 painting as its frame – eleven love songs structured as a single day, from morning to dusk, with birdsong and rain woven in as recorded sound.

Will Jacobson is an indie singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Montclair, New Jersey, who records music under the project moniker Son of Jacob.

Paul Garside is an alt-folk singer-songwriter hailing from Crystal Palace in South London, whose distinctive acoustic storytelling has been capturing attention across the capital’s vibrant music scene.

Singer-songwriter Jon Scott returns with his uplifting new single, “You Are So Real”, a deeply personal celebration of love, gratitude and the people who help us through life’s most difficult moments.

Last Might Watchman is primarily a solo project and also a collaboration with his long-time friend and former band mate, John Horton (aka Sven Vortex). They were the main guitarists in the Birmingham indie band, The Noseflutes, recording a series of sessions for the BBC and releasing several EPs and LPs

Ron-Ian Cottam has released his new single, “Far Away”, a song written by Billy Marlowe and released in collaboration with Hotdog4theMoon.

Power Ballads and The Wash is the sophomore album from London-based multi-instrumentalist James Howard, due for release on 19th November 2026

Orbiting Jersey City, New Jersey, Royal Blush is a blend of nostalgic alt-rock roots and modern grunge punch.

Liminalland is Prey Silence’s third single, a propulsive, anthemic rock song laden with riffs and harmonies, exploring mental health and isolation.

The Venus Children are a UK band formed through a chain of coincidences including a Lil Peep sample discovery, now releasing their debut album ‘The Ingredient’

What they lacked in youthful gymnastics, AC/DC more than compensated with enthusiasm, sheer grit and an undeniable catalog of rock radio classics.