Archive: 2025

The New Loud, the debut full-length from Washington’s own Babes In Canyon, weaves moody folk with synth-laced pop into a sound that feels both timeless and entirely of the now. Luminous vocals float over glimmers of 1980s radio nostalgia, while flickers of mandolin dance like sparks in the dark. Richly textured and artfully arranged, what […]

North Carolina’s Hopscotch Music Festival returns to downtown Raleigh for its fifteenth edition on September 4-6, 2025. Today, the Hopscotch team is thrilled to announce the initial lineup for this landmark year: The City Plaza stage will be headlined by Louisville rock and roll mainstays My Morning Jacket, the abstract and cerebral rapper Earl Sweatshirt (playing his first NC show in […]

Critically acclaimed filmmaker Dennis Hauck was writing songs long before he touched a camera, but he pivoted away from music as his career in film took off. It would be the death of his friend, cinematographer Haylna Hutchins, on the set of the Western film Rust, that reawakened the songwriter within him. He has since […]

Jason Molina‘s expansive catalog—from Songs: Ohia, to The Magnolia Electric Co., to the work under his own name—has become one of the most important forces in the musical ecosystem of 2025. His distinct voice, stunning lyricism, and knack for longing melodies can be clearly heard not only in the current resurgence of alt country and Americana, but […]

Following his historic three-night stand at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom earlier this year  Paul McCartney and his acclaimed Got Back Tour will make their wildly anticipated return to North America this fall. Got Back’s 2025 run of 19 newly announced dates marks Paul’s first extensive series of shows across the US and Canada since […]

Prince Brendan lives and records in a creaky old house in Lawrence, Kansas. He plays all the analog instruments himself and is releasing a series of singles in the run-up to his debut album, Love Songs for Sickly Girls, in 2026. The modern DIY artist’s new single, “Wrong Mountain,” is a loose and raw look […]

The Kerosene Hours are the hours between midnight and 4 a.m. — that strange pocket of time that exists between real life and someone else’s dream, a time when everything is a shade of neon red, lonely blue, or sickly green, a time when anything and everything can happen. The Kerosene Hours is also the […]

Very few bands can confidently say they’ve achieved as much as Coldplay, and even fewer can deny any influence they’ve picked up from the band. The Chris Martin-led Britpop outfit has dominated radio, touring, and album sales for the better part of the last quarter-century. They have earned global acclaim, lined their shelves with awards […]

“Hands” is not just a song, but rather, an epiphany, a core moment of self-realization. Undercover Cameo is a three-piece ambient-folk collective from Westerly, Rhode Island. Consisting of core members Lucas Neil (guitar), Olivia Charlotte (piano), and Sandy Allen (mandolin), this trio is known for their poetic, multi-faceted music that is as calming as a […]

Your image is moody, surreal, and draped in velvet shadows. But the caption says: “🔥FLASH SALE TODAY!” Something feels…off. If your visual brand whispers cottagecore, your copy shouldn’t shout Vegas. Whether you’re building a vintage campaign, teasing a minimalist skincare line, or launching a surreal product drop, your caption should echo the mood board, not […]

The bands that built the historic Los Angeles punk scene interweave like a chain-link fence, bending around each other to form a wall of community and fast tempos. The more you look into it, the more you realize how most of these bands wouldn’t have survived without the others. When one band ends, another begins, […]

Sometimes the title of the album says it all. With Ain’t Rocked in a While, Brent Cobb & The Fixin’s decided to press pause on Cobb’s more singer/songwriter offerings, strap on the electric guitars, and turn the amps up.  Produced by Cobb and Oran Thornton, the players recorded live to tape at The Black Palace in Springfield, […]

Rounding out our salute to Live Aid for today’s Weirdo Wednesday, we’re spotlighting the notoriously choppy Led Zeppelin “reunion,” which took place at JFK Stadium in Philly. Joined by Phil Collins (of all people) on drums, Plant would later describe this performance as “a fucking atrocity for us … It made us look like loonies.” […]

“Openness Trio.” Guitarist Nate Mercereau, saxophonist Josh Johnson, and percussionist Carlos Niño have joined up as The Openness Trio for their Blue Note debut. All are producers and skilled in effects and electronics. Both Mercereau and Niño have toured with Andre 3000. Johnson is known for his work with Jeff Parker and as a producer […]

Sunking is a band born out of restlessness. As members of the jazz fusion powerhouse High Pulp, the trio of Bobby Granfelt, Antoine Martel, and Victory Nguyen create innovative and expansive examples of how jazz has evolved to fit modern times. Even with the borderless atmosphere and creative freedom offered by working with a large […]

Larry Keel and Jon Stickley will independently release their eponymous debut EP in September. Keel and Stickley have been called two of the finest flatpicking guitarists of this generation, and with this act, the two celebrate the pure joy of playing acoustic guitar music as a duo, effortlessly complementing each other’s rhythm and lead playing […]

The ground-breaking multi-genre collective Fishbone has spent several decades bringing together Ska, Punk, Funk, Soul, Rock, and more, and in late June released a new album titled Stockholm Syndrome. The album very much addresses our times, song by song, speaking to different situations we may ourselves face or merely witness in life, and bringing in […]