"Dance music" and "music for dance" have different meanings. While the former is often associated with alcohol-fueled parties and festivals, the latter is more common at teatotalling perform… Read More

The quotidian slog suffered by all of us in the modern world can conceal moments of profound spirituality and meaning. Just ask Hauspoints, a post-punk outfit birthed in a "dilapidated indus… Read More

Photo by Libre LeungHolding Hour - Can I Leave Me Too?indie rockDes Moiners Holding Hour deftly blends shoegaze and slacker intentions on their recent single "Can I Leave Me Too?… Read More

On the banks of Livorno, Italy, instrumental post-rock outfit create beguiling and soaring music. It's the type of music that can transport you skyward with its passionate and atmospheric ex… Read More

For the past decade, US musician Helen Yee has been honing her craft. By live looping her violin with various other instruments and electronics, she creates otherworldly and delicately balan… Read More

Studies have shown that rock music affects psychological tension, albeit not always for the better, with one study showing it can increase hostility, sadness, tension, and fatigue. That stud… Read More

English electronic musician LateNightBeatFeast may not boast the most urbane stagename, but his music is cleverly assembled and sophisticatedly produced. The elusive artist doesn't share bio… Read More

Jonsjooel. Photo by Jonne HeinonenBerlin-based Finnish artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jonsjooel has shared his latest track "Somewhere Else Than Here", a dreamy and s… Read More

Avant-garde trumpeter Nathan Plante has thrown caution to the wind; after 20 years of performing as a classical musician, he releases his first EP as a purveyor of darkly subduing ambient ex… Read More

Photo by Ivan ManiKurt Leege - A Cephalopod Rebellionambient Guitarist Kurt Leege has a storied past. From studying jazz at Swarthmore, populating New York's thriving indie scene in the… Read More

The line straddling accessibility and innovation is hard to draw, perhaps no place more so than in art. Artists risk either alienating their audience or insulting their intelligence, with li… Read More

Photo by Sasha Matveeva Antoine Loemba - MontparnassejazzMontparnasse is a neighborhood in Paris known for its rich cultural history. It is also the title of the first track from French… Read More

NY-based artist John Beckmann is having a purple patch. Since 2022, his work as Mortal Prophets has yielded three EPs, numerous singles, and five albums. The latest album, ICNCLST/, is bille… Read More

Stefen Robinson, aka Yeag Big, discusses his improvisational work with Tatsu Aoki. The pair's 2nd EP, The Hand and The Moon, Part Two, is out now on FPE Records. NT: Hello, Stefen. Than… Read More

Sometimes, having nothing to lose offers the biggest gains. This sentiment is true for Liverpudlian guitarist Matthew McPartlan, whose debut album of wandering solo acoustic guitar work, Sum… Read More

A raw intensity permeates DIOMEDES, the sophomore album from London-based three-piece ectropunk outfit The Diomedes. This intensity manifests in high-octane drum patterns, expansive guitars… Read More

Photo by Ivan ManiHannah Lev - Palm to PalmexperimentalLondon-based electronic producer Hannah Lev casts a woozy spell on "Palm to Palm," a consummate single full of anxious synth swells, sh… Read More

"Bifurcate" is a word that means to divide into two branches or forks, like a river splitting and flowing in different directions. Separation is a theme that resonates with New Jersey prog a… Read More

Leixlip-based musician Ogenblik's experiments in retrofuturistic production culminate in his debut album This Used To Be The Sound of The Future. Employing a range of outdated recording tech… Read More

What makes the human spirit so indomitable? Despite social injustices and economic disparities, people continue to wake up and live their lives every day, clutching onto shards of hope. This… Read More

What is America? This question has been posed by sociologists and comedians with varying degrees of seriousness and sarcasm for decades. With such a large, diverse population, it can be hard… Read More

Photo by Junpire NguyenAM sin - Silver LiningelectronicLondon-based duo AM sin crafts a meticulously roaming synthetic piece with "Silver Lining." Soft sounds turn to harder territory across… Read More

Australian artist Bradley Murray has been releasing sprawling instrumental music under the moniker The Finch Cycle since 2020. Having released two EPs, Murray has taken the leap to a full-le… Read More

Photo by Samura SilvaManatee Commune - SimultaneitySoft and luscious sounds abound on “Love Tone”, the opening track on Simultaneity, the recent album from Seattleite Manate… Read More

Photo by Krišjānis KazaksWhy England Slept - House of PizzajazzIf you've ever thought that you might benefit from more jauntiness, then look no further than "House of Pizza" the… Read More

"Welcome to the deal of the century," sings Londonite Jem Doulton on the opening track of his recent album Deal of the Century. It's a clever narrative hook that draws the listener into the… Read More

Photo by Memories on 35mmRecalculating - Candide Sayspost-punkPacked around a sunny riff, New York three-piece Recalculating delivers snarling observations with deliberate aberrance on "Cand… Read More

Canadian artist SUUNCAAT has shared her second single of 2024, the moreish "Salad Years".Montreal is sizzling under an intense heatwave, but inside, surrounded by the cool embrace of air con… Read More

Earlier this year, by the banks of the Avon River, English songwriter Jody Prewett entered a studio and recorded the songs he had been working on for a year and a half between Bristol and Ba… Read More

Popular music critic Anthony Fantano once quipped, "In music, trends are always rising and fading in popularity, but nostalgia never dies." His statement is supported by Comedowns, the fourt… Read More

There's an explosive quality to the songs of Scottish alternative shoegaze group Sunstinger. Their recent EP, Worthless, opens with its oceanic title track, which builds in intensity through… Read More

The phrase "ignorance is bliss," coined by 18th-century poet Thomas Gray, seems to be an undeniable truism. However, bliss needn't always be the end goal. One could make the case that it's m… Read More

Photo by Pin Han LimNicholas Skalba - (circadian) ambience and soundscapesambient Nicholas Skalba is a multi-instrumentalist composer from Chicago now based in Los Angeles. Having earne… Read More

Photo by Aysegul Alpsparring - In The Fish Tank experimental There's a supernatural quality to "In The Fish Tank", the debut single from obscure Mexican artist sparring. It seems t… Read More

Not for the faint-hearted, Decoy are a Baton Rouge hardcore outfit that brings the intensity up to 11 on their recent EP, re:selection. The band are made up of the tortured and ostensibly po… Read More

LA surf rockers Strawflower make a convincing argument for leaving it all behind in the name of debaucherous pleasures on their debut album "Greetings from the Stardust Motel". Featuring a c… Read More

The dulcet folk stylings of British-American folk songwriter pb, stage name of Phoebe Workman, are on full display across her debut album neither prose nor poetry. Through personable writing… Read More

British composer Leopold Stokowski once said “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” On their sophomore album The Chaos of Silence… Read More

Photo by Cody WhearTez - Feathers indie rockCanterbury four-piece Tez makes a compelling case for emotional vulnerability in their recent single "Feathers".  Touching on themes of… Read More

Never judge a book by its cover unless it's not a book but the second self-titled album from Californian hypnotists-cum-psychedelic-indie rockers Mountains of Jura. The cover art of their la… Read More

New Yorker John Beckmann has had a productive few years. Since 2022, the genre-averse artist has released four albums (one of which was an opera titled HANUSSEN) and numerous EPS and singles… Read More

Photo by Valeriia MillerYea Big and Tatsu Aoki - The Hand and The Moon, Part OneWhen Bloomington, IL multi-instrumentalist Stefen Robinson, AKA Yea Big, first heard the work of Japenese trad… Read More

  Photo by Laura AlessiaSilent Mass - The Great ChaosalternativeSpearheaded by the lush vocals of Ammo Bankoff, New York-based Silent Mass seems driven to take the listener to… Read More

Nothing like a bit of nihilism to start the weekend. On The Shining Tongues' second album, This Body Of Mine Will Disintegrate, the Londonites face life's bleaker truths through spiritually… Read More

Sometimes, you have to start again. After playing in the post-punk band Sandcastle, the Toulon-based musician Thomas Ferrandes reinvisioned his musical language through Farewell Wise Man, an… Read More

"Will we ever cease to believe in wrong cosmologies?" is the question posed by Italian-Canadian sound artist Dominic Sambucco on his recent EP, Relative Cosmologies.  A composer and… Read More

The problem with the present is that you can never really see it. According to NPR: "When you look at the mountain peak 30 kilometres away, you see it not as it exists now but as it existed… Read More

Photo by Yudha AprilianAvalon Kane - Hole Songambient Stretching her notes out like the vast expanse of the outback, Avalon Kane proceeds to mystify her audience with gentle and heavenl… Read More

On their self-titled EP, Portlander indie-rock outfit Baby Grendel craft winning tunes underpinned by an uninhibited capacity for expression and an ability to build colourful worlds via jang… Read More

Photo by Alan WangFast Blood - Salvation indie rockRising above being a pastiche of 90s midwestern indie/emo, hardcore and garage punk with sheer intensity and attitude, Newcastle's Fas… Read More