NINA HAGEN HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN GRÖNLAND RECORDS If you’ve ever dreamed of watching late-career Marlene Dietrich play an enigmatic preacher in a European arthouse rock musical, you’re in luck! Nina Hagen’s new gospel album, HiGHWAY TO HEAVEN, is [...]
ROBYN SEXISTENTIAL KONICHIWA RECORDS Swedish songbird Robyn has been in the pop game since age 16. Her 1995 debut album included hits like “Show Me Love” and “Do You Know (What it Takes),” co-written with the legendary Max Martin. With a more [...]
SYDNEY ROSS MITCHELL CYNTHIA DISRUPTOR RECORDS Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas (home of Buddy Holly and Natalie Maines of The Chicks), Sydney Ross Mitchell left home to find herself in the music scene of Los Angeles. This EP tells the story of [...]
WESTSIDE COWBOY SO MUCH COUNTRY ‘TILL WE GET THERE ISLAND RECORDS Four-piece English indie band Westside Cowboy has been described as “college rock”, which couldn’t be a more accurate way of describing its sound or ethos. So Much Country ‘Till [...]
REWIND, REMIX, REIMAGINE A CONVERSATION WITH ROLAND GIFT OF FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS The person who unwraps a copy of the Fine Young Cannibals’ recent release FYC40: A Definitive Anthology on Christmas morning this year might be a vintage-minded [...]
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS FYC40 LONDON RECORDS It seems unusual for a band that was only active for a few years to get a deluxe 40th-anniversary treatment, but Fine Young Cannibals is a band with a long and storied history that reads like a who’s who [...]
TINA TURNER GOOD HEARTED WOMAN (2025 REMASTER) CHERRY RED RECORDS Tina Turner was a worldwide icon best known for her work in two different musical spheres: soul, which provided her debut in the 1960s, and rock ‘n’ roll, which was the soundtrack [...]
MAGIC WANDS CASCADES METROPOLIS RECORDS In the 1983 erotic horror film The Hunger, Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie play vampires who scout goth clubs for young victims they can take home and devour. The opening scene very memorably features [...]
BABYGIRL STAY HERE WHERE IT’S WARM ARTS & CRAFTS Toronto-based duo Babygirl says its music is inspired by acts from all corners of the pop pantheon, from Katy Perry to The Beach Boys to Swedish hitmaker Max Martin. But the sound of [...]
WOMBO DANGER IN FIVES FIRE TALK RECORDS Ethereal vocals, inventive bass lines, and an esoteric co-mingling of sounds are at the heart of Wombo’s latest release, Danger in Fives. The three-piece indie rock band was founded in 2016 in Louisville, [...]
ACAPULCO LIPS NOW KILLROOM RECORDS Acapulco Lips’ new album, Now, certainly opens with a bang. The first track, “Welcome To The Other Side”, sounds like the theme song to a groovy ‘60s cartoon about a girl group that goes around a beachfront [...]
