12 Rods If We Stayed Alive Husky Pants Records Yes, there is a sensible meaning in naming the new 12 Rods album If We Stayed Alive. It is the first in 21 years from these Minneapolis indies stalwarts, who always seemed to have a passion for that [...]
Penguin Cafe Rain Before Seven Erased Tapes Back in the 80s, they were Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Simon Jeffes and his crew made a series of utterly charming albums that had the sound of a string band playing on a patio, always on the edge of [...]
Fred Abbott & The Wild Unknown Shining Under The Soot lojinx Fred Abbott might be now playing with a band named The Wild Unknown, but he certainly isn’t an unknown quantity, whether he’s wild could be discussed. After all, Abbott [...]
John Jenkins Tuebrook John Jenkins Music Tuebrook is John Jenkins’ first album since 2021’s If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love album. While If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love is a fantastic album, Jenkins goes deeper and has delivered one [...]
African Head Charge A Trip To Bolgatanga On-U Sound This is African Head Charge’s first new album in a dozen years. Although they have always employed “world” sounds within their psychedelic dub, the focus here is most definitely on West African [...]
Local Natives Time Will Wait For No One Loma Vista Recordings Time Will Wait For No One, the fifth album from Los Angeles band Local Natives, might not be the most memorable or the best indie rock has to offer, but there are some great moments [...]
MOBIUS RADIO MOBIUS RADIO INDEPENDENT When not making viral videos about speaking French while ordering at a Québec drive-through or spoofing Eminem, Dylan Hennessy plays guitar, sings, and writes for Mobius Radio. The Toronto- based duo is [...]
Anberlin Convinced Equal Vision Records Florida-based rock band Anberlin have released their latest EP, Convinced, a six-track follow-up to 2022’s Silverline, and the second release since returning from their four-year hiatus. Convinced proves [...]
