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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…
Ora Cogan Explores Resilience in ‘Hard Hearted Woman’
Canadian experimental folk artist Ora Cogan has released her new album ‘Hard Hearted Woman,’ which explores themes of r…
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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…
Jolanda Moletta Has Better Taste Than I Do
A guest recommendation from the Italian vocalist, composer, multimedia artist and self-described “o…
New Drum and Bass: Moleman – Between Worlds
Some spaced drum and bass is today’s offering courtesy of Moleman. Moleman is a melodic drum and ba…
HEKLA at salon wellenmaschine / Thursday, 2.4.2026 — Digital in Berlin
Icelandic Theremin Musician Hekla Magnúsdóttir is a rare specialist of the theremin, a notoriously …
Jex Ayla reveals the new tune, “Battlefront”, featuring German producer Michel Jaensch
Jex Ayla’s “Battlefront”, featuring German producer Michel Jaensch, is a cinematic dark-pop triumph…
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…
Dryft: Actacrume
Dryft's album ‘Actacrume’ is an underground music release that explores existential themes through …
Looned - Flowering Delirium - Noise/ambient, creating a contrast of tranquility and harshness, woven from a vision of dark surrealism.
Noise/ambient, creating a contrast of tranquility and harshness, woven from a vision of dark surrea…
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…
Juanma Trujillo — A Cantaclaro in Barcelona | The Tonearm
‘Música Para Quinteto: Live at Jazz Cava’ captures Juanma Trujillo's Barcelona quintet at full burn…
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 …
Mike Zellers - Healing - Creating this music brought me some peace and I hope listening to it will bring you peace.
This recording was very important to me. I was experiencing grief and recovering from physical issu…
Claudia Balla shares the cinematic new cut, “The Old Magnolia (Dramatic Version)”
Following the release of her sixth EP, “Let's See Where the Light Goes”, is the new single, “The Ol…
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
For 50 years, The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Has Redefined Jazz & Be…
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…
Plush Life — The Soft Resistance of Green-House
Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan of the LA-based electronic duo Green-House talk imaginary video…
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
The label spotlights artists who crafted visionary music blending free improvisation, jazz, prog ro…
Ben Wendel's ‘BaRcoDe’ Is Unique and Uniquely Excellent » PopMatters
Ben Wendel has played with groove-oriented rhythms, electronics, and unusual instrumentation, as if…
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…
Ambient Sunday double with: Applefish, and Dotlights
A double bill of largely beatless Ambient for today’s Ambient Sunday from Applefish, and Dotlights.…
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…
Social Abyss - BREAK the chain - With its dynamic blend of industrial, cyberpunk, and electronic sounds, Social Abyss’ ‘BREAK the chain’ is a hard-hitting industrial dance anthem for social change.
“BREAK the chain,” the latest single from Social Abyss, is a powerful anthem challenging the listen…