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London Trio Deary Debuts Dream-Pop Album ‘Birding’
London-based trio Deary has released their debut album ‘Birding’ on Bella Union, blending 1980s and 1990s dream-pop wit…
Bandcamp's Best Music Releases for March 2026
Bandcamp has released its curated guide to the essential music releases across multiple genres for March 2026. The coll…
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Ben Seretan and John Thayer Create an Ambient Masterpiece » PopMatters
Ben Seretan and John Thayer have collaborated on Sunbeam of No Illusion, an ambient album that comb…
BEST NEW TRACKS: VERY BUSY PEOPLE – ORDINARY NIGHT
Very Busy People, an indie collective formed in Austin, Texas in 2017, creates an evolving sound th…
Darker Waves Festival Returns with 2026 Lineup Headlined by Morrissey and The Smashing Pumpkins
The first Darker Waves festival happened in 2023 and now it’s finally returning to Huntington Beach…
New Music: Slaney Bay – That’s Cool | AnalogueTrash
South-West London four-piece Slaney Bay releases ‘That's Cool,’ bringing a fresh perspective to sho…
BEST NEW TRACKS: KID TIGRRR – SCRY
Kid Tigrrr is the solo project of Jenna Fournier, known as the frontwoman of shoegaze hybrid band N…
Jesse Appelman - Where We Go (self-released)
Jesse Appelman's ‘Where We Go’ showcases collaborative acoustic artistry through mandolin and clawh…
Mombi Yuleman - Descent on Deadman's Wash (Psytrance 148-152bpm) - A high-noon hallucination!
Mombi Yuleman and Kri Samadhi collaborate on ‘Descent on Deadman's Wash,’ a psytrance track (148-15…
Robertson - Robertson - Chiming acoustic pop with flavours of psychedelia , Folk Rock & Americana
Robertson's self-titled album is a collaboration between father and son Kevin and Scott Robertson, …
Single: Rose Haze – Slow Decay
Rose Haze's single ‘Slow Decay’ was released in 2023 but went unnoticed until recently. The track i…
Antonin De Bemels - COMPTINEs - Haunting techno for melancholic people… Teardrops on the dancefloor?
Antonin De Bemels releases ‘COMPTINEs,’ an EP featuring three evolved versions of the track ‘COMPTI…
BEST NEW TRACKS: RINGLET – HOLD MY PAINT
Ringlet, a shoegaze band from Oakland, California featuring former Deafheavent members, has release…
Lois Powell + Night Wolf - The Laws Of Life (EscaVolt Records)
Lois Powell and Night Wolf's fourth collaboration ‘The Laws of Life’ on EscaVolt Records continues …
Ambient Sunday double with: Andrew Land, and Drifting Into Silence
This article discusses needing ambient music to soothe the discombobulation caused by British Summe…
Pierre Bastien / Dr. Truna - Electric Totems - Pierre Bastien recent album
Pierre Bastien and Dr. Truna's new album ‘Electric Totems’ features experimental ambient music crea…
BLKE: HEAT
BLKE: HEAT is a publication or platform focused on underground music and pop culture, exploring exi…
Eve Tera - An Ingress to the Celestial Order - Nor dark, neither bright, the feeling you receive from this album flows somewhere else, far beyond the transitional edges of certified figures.
Eve Tera's new album ‘An Ingress to the Celestial Order’ redefines fantasy music with mystical comp…
Frederick St. Peter - aperçus scintillants - Hypercondensed miniatures pulling influence from the polyphony of early music, the textures of ambient and lo-fi music, and the sparseness of composers such as Anton Webern, Luigi Dallapiccola and György Kurtág.
Frederick St. Peter's ‘aperçus scintillants’ is a collection of hypercondensed miniature compositio…
EP: figure eight – until the sun swallows the earth / hummingbird
Figure eight, an Oakland-based band, has released a two-song, ten-minute EP titled ‘until the sun s…
Sean Taylor Brings “All Along the Watchtower” Back to Its Roots
UK singer-songwriter Sean Taylor has released a new acoustic cover of ‘All Along the Watchtower’ th…
Louie Cameron reveals his dreamy new cut, “Canina Canoona”
Louie Cameron releases his second single “Cantina Canoona,” a dreamy psych-pop track blending Ameri…
State Vector Collapse - Informal Studies In Threshold Incrementation - Dark industrial noise drone ambient modular synth
State Vector Collapse, the project of Leif Hunneman, released ‘Informal Studies In Threshold Increm…
Youth Valley release post-punk/shoegaze crossover ‘Cerberus’.
Youth Valley has released ‘Cerberus’, their most raw and bittersweet single to date. The track blen…