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Horse Lords Unveil Vocal-Driven Album, Share New Tracks
Experimental rock band Horse Lords have announced their new album ‘Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!’ set for release…
Youth Valley Releases Dark Post-Punk Single ‘Cerberus’
Youth Valley has released ‘Cerberus,’ a moody new single that blends shoegaze, post-punk, and 1980s influences reminisc…
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Deep Dive: Any Guy, Strawberry Skies, African Grooves, and a Lo-fi Hip-Hop Vibe - The Static Dive
The Deep Dive playlists feature new releases across multiple genres including indie pop, classical,…
Jana Pochop - Powerlines - Powerlines is a haunting tapestry of indie-folk-pop that maps the distance between Brooklyn’s urban pulse and the expansive New Mexican sky, featuring reverbs recorded inside Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu studio.
What does the desert sound like? For her self-produced EP Powerlines (March 25), Jana Pochop litera…
Youth Valley release post-punk/shoegaze crossover ‘Cerberus’.
Digging deep into personal struggles and raw confession, this latest track is the most raw, bitters…
Delete Everything! - MSD73 - DA1 (DE04) - F*ck AI sh*t and listen to these three techno bangers!
The new techno release arrives pulsating from the very first second blablabla … this is what a sh…
Experimental keyboardist and composer Kelly Moran gives you something to reflect on with Don’t Trust Mirrors - Chicago Reader
Kelly Moran Sun 4/5 at Constellation The post Experimental keyboardist and composer Kelly Moran giv…
ListN Up Playlist: Keren Abreu (March 26, 2026)
Keren Abreu curates a playlist celebrating queer and musical inspiration for March 26, 2026. The pl…
Neurosis: An Undying Love for a Burning World
On their surprise-released first album in 10 years, the psychedelic Bay Area metal veterans launch …
Neurosis: An Undying Love for a Burning World
On their surprise-released first album in 10 years, the psychedelic Bay Area metal veterans launch …
Anne Hills carries folk music’s Chicago heyday in her head and heart - Chicago Reader
One of my favorite ways to discover a local artist is to study the liner notes of a thrift-store LP…
Experimental bass clarinetist Emily Rach Beisel drops a new album of heavy winds - Chicago Reader
Emily Rach Beisel Fri 4/10 at 8:30 pm The post Experimental bass clarinetist Emily Rach Beisel drop…
Three Music Thingz with DI LEO
Oouuuuoooouuu, it's another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians f…
The Violent Youth, “tsvety” | I Die: You Die
Depressive Euro post-punk is the order of the day on the latest from The Violent Youth. The post Th…
Fire-Toolz – “Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head”
Fire-Toolz, a Chicago-based experimental electronic producer, has released a lead single titled ‘Ba…
The Best Performances of 2026's Love Rocks NYC » PopMatters
Love Rocks NYC promised an all-star lineup, one that wouldn't have been out of place at Newport Fol…
Something We All Got by Cootie Catcher
. Band Name: Cootie Catcher Label: Carpark Records Release Date: February 27, 2026 Tags: alternativ…
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)
A Treatise scrambles to life in a burst of scratchy acoustic guitar, a tootle of cheery keyboard an…
Aeon Temple: Golden Veils
Aeon Temple's ‘Golden Veils’ is an underground music release that explores themes of existential pa…
The New Ways Drops The Danceables Collection on Dysfunct
The New Ways, also known as electronic artist Shelbric Fuller, has just released his new House Tech…
Djembe Funk - $20 Mic - This song only needed one 20 dollar mic. All instruments played into same mic, vocals too. 20 bucks.
I bought a microphone I like and I want the world to know. It only costs 20 dollars and I recorded …
Jonivan Jones reveals new offering, “Take my heart (to its grave)”
Jonivan Jones is back with his exciting new offering, “Take my heart (to its grave)”. The song is h…
j.demar - fallow fields - The shape of what's missing, held in the light that remains.
fusing together multiple genres that defy strict categorization to create a dialogue between distan…
Ivan Reash - Slavery - Cinematic classical folk ambient and noise around a powerful and emersive theological conept
A monumental work where a variety of styles got tied to a singular Biblical concept of becoming a s…