Moon Rappin’ (Blue Note, 1970) stands as one of Brother Jack McDuff’s most distinctive and adventurous statements. Recorded in 1969, this loose concept album finds the soul-jazz organ master …

My Sister’s Machine’s 1992 debut Diva is one of the great what-ifs of the Seattle grunge explosion. Released on Caroline Records just months after Nirvana’s Nevermind rewrote the rules, the a…

M.I.7 marks M.I.A.’s boldest reinvention yet: a full-throated dive into Christian faith on her seventh studio album, released April 17, 2026, via her own OHMNI label. Clocking in at roughly 64 minu…

Fans have paid artists $1.71 billion using Bandcamp, and yesterday alone bought 82,311 records. On select Fridays throughout the year, Bandcamp waives its share of sales for 24 hours, giving fans a…

Ecca Vandal’s Looking for People to Unfollow, which drops May 22, 2026 via Loma Vista Recordings, is a raw, unapologetic 17-track statement that captures the Sri Lankan Tamil–Australian artist at h…

They Might Be Giants return with Eyeball, a brisk four-track EP released in January 2026 that serves as a delightful “warm-up round” for their upcoming full-length. Clocking in at under ten minutes…

Chicago’s relentless altrock-industrial collective The Joy Thieves have returned to fire a warning shot with their blistering new single, “The Wrong End of Your Rifle.” With a visceral …

Durham, North Carolina-based MAKE returns with their first album in a decade, announcing their fourth LP, Exegesis At The End Of Time, for release on June 12th on Accident Prone Records, and unveil…

Angine de Poitrine performing live at ESMA in Rennes, France, during Trans Musicales 2025. Recorded December 04, 2025. Songs: Sarniezz 00:32 Mata Zyklek 06:10 Fabienk 13:09 Sherpa 20:33 Khn de Poit…

Windowpane’s 2016 self-titled album is the kind of straightforward, blue-collar hard rock record that feels both nostalgic and refreshingly unpretentious. Clocking in at fourteen tracks and just ov…

Angine de Poitrine’s Vol. 1 is a delirious, 33-minute debut that feels less like a rock album and more like a malfunctioning carnival ride through a parallel dimension. Released in June 2024 by the…

In the electrifying world of music, few words pack the same visceral punch as “fire.” It conjures everything from smoldering desire and raging rebellion to the pure adrenaline of a stage on the ver…

The Cars’ self-titled 1978 debut is one of those rare records that sounds both utterly of its moment and permanently modern. Arriving at the exact crossroads where late-’70s rock was shedding its b…

Ecca Vandal’s self-titled debut album, released in October 2017 on Dew Process/Island Records, is a raucous, shape-shifting firecracker from the Melbourne-based South African-Sri Lankan artist. Clo…

Fanny Hill, the 1972 third studio album by the pioneering all-female rock quartet Fanny, captures the band at its creative peak. Recorded over two weeks at London’s Apple Studios with producer Rich…

In Absentia (2002) stands as Porcupine Tree’s definitive pivot from cult psychedelic prog into the mainstream of heavy, cinematic rock. Steven Wilson’s songwriting had already sharpened on the prec…

Leveler, the 2025 EP from Wisconsin-based heavy rock band Vaureen, feels like the sonic aftershock of a long-delayed reckoning. Released August 22 via Rising Pulse Records, the six-track collection…

The Hurting, Tears for Fears’ 1983 debut, remains one of the most fully realized opening statements in new-wave history. Recorded when Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith were barely out of their teens, …

The Queen Is Dead, released in June 1986, is The Smiths at their absolute peak. It is the album where Morrissey’s lacerating wit and Johnny Marr’s incandescent guitar playing finally fused into som…

Jane’s Addiction’s debut studio album arrived like a Molotov cocktail tossed into the hair-metal wasteland of late-’80s Los Angeles. Nothing’s Shocking didn’t just reject the glossy excess of the S…

Check out the official music video for the new ‪song “Asleep on the Killing Floor,” taken from Corrosion of Conformity’s new album Good God / Baad Man out now. Produced by Grammy …

In the eighteen years since 4:13 Dream, The Cure have grown older, quieter, and, on Songs of a Lost World, wiser. Released in November 2024, the band’s fourteenth studio album is a deliberate, eigh…

Nervosa’s Slave Machine (Napalm Records, April 3, 2026) is the Brazilian thrash quartet’s sixth full-length and their sharpest, most ferocious record to date. Clocking in at a lean 43 minutes acros…

The Warning’s Keep Me Fed (Lava/Republic, June 2024) is the Mexican trio’s most confident and radio-ready statement yet. Following the raw intensity of 2022’s Error, the Villarreal sisters—Daniela …

Lose Your Illusions by Uncle Hauk is a raw, restless triumph that arrives like a storm you’ve been secretly waiting for. Hauk Heimdallsman’s latest album (available on Bandcamp on May 1 followed by…

In Through the Out Door (1979) is Led Zeppelin’s most divisive and, in hindsight, most human album. Released just months before John Bonham’s death would end the band, it feels less like a victory …

TV Girl’s Who Really Cares (2016) is a ten-track slab of bedroom-pop malaise that feels like the soundtrack to every messy situationship you’ve ever had. Released as the San Diego duo’s sophomore e…

Ten years after Fires Within Fires, Neurosis have returned not with nostalgia but with a clenched-fist rebirth. Surprise-dropped on the 2026 Spring Equinox, An Undying Love for a Burning World is t…

Avalon Emerson & the Charm’s Written into Changes (Dead Oceans, March 20, 2026) is the rare sophomore album that feels like a full exhale after a long, restless inhale. Following the hazy, bed…

Achtung Baby (1991) is the album on which U2 stopped being the earnest, flag-waving champions of the 1980s and became something far more interesting: a flawed, horny, paranoid band that sounded lik…

Diva Bleach’s debut album Can You Keep a Secret? (InVogue Records, January 2025) is a sparkling 27-minute sugar rush of pop-punk that feels like it was bottled in 2004 and aged in glitter gel pens.…

Soundgarden’s Superunknown, released March 8, 1994, on A&M Records, remains the definitive grunge masterpiece. After years of underground heaviness on Badmotorfinger, Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil…

Heart’s 1976 debut Dreamboat Annie arrived like a thunderclap in an era when women were still expected to play folk or pop, not crank out Zeppelin-grade hard rock. The Wilson sisters—Ann’s volcanic…

HAARPER’s Evol, released October 30, 2019, is a brisk 22-minute underground trap ride that feels like a late-night smoke session turned into music. The 12-track project (yes, 12 if you count the ti…

Kim Gordon has never sounded more pissed off—or more alive. At 73, the Sonic Youth icon drops her third solo album, PLAY ME, out today, 3/13, via Matador Records, exactly two years after the raw tr…

There’s no rest for the wicked…and there’s no peace in the void. After a long journey across the oceanic expanses with Echoes from the Deep, Creatures, and Depth, the time has com…

BIG|BRAVE have officially announced their tenth full-length album, in grief or in hope, out June 12th, 2026 through Thrill Jockey. in grief or in hope is an innovative vision of electro-acoustic, e…

Connecticut’s noise rock outfit Intercourse unleashes their most visceral offering yet with How I Fell in Love with the Void, a 2025 release on Brutal Panda Records that dives headfirst into …

Ruin Everything, which drops on June 5 via Chimp Limbs, is the fifth studio album from Stockholm psychedelic-rock pioneers Les Big Byrd. Since forming in 2011, the four piece have perfected their b…

In an era when tenderness feels like rebellion, Ora Cogan’s Hard Hearted Woman arrives like a spell whispered over seawater and smoke. Her Sacred Bones debut (following the shape-shifting Formless …

After years of restless migration—from Chicago’s gritty indie scene to off-grid Taos winters, sunless Icelandic residencies, and finally the surprising calm of Los Angeles—Lillie West has landed so…

Norwegian-Ecuadorian progressive metal project JAIME burst onto the scene with Above and Beyond, a stunning 60-minute debut that feels less like a first album and more like a fully realized cinemat…

Stockholm’s hard-rock trio Supralunar have finally delivered their third full-length, and it was worth the wait. Dead Come to Dance landed on February 6, 2026, after a protracted “Chinese Democracy…

In a year already buzzing with fresh rock energy, Die Spitz stand out as the band you must watch in 2026. This all-female Austin four-piece—barely into their mid-twenties—delivers chaotic, catharti…

Dead Register has announced a deluxe remastered 10th anniversary edition of their landmark debut Fiber, due May 22, 2026, remastered once again by Dan Dixon and featuring the unreleased live bonus …

Fifty years after dropping their first UK punk single, The Damned still refuse to play by anyone’s rules. Not Like Everybody Else, their 13th studio album and first all-covers set, lands like a rau…

U2’s surprise six-track EP Days of Ash, dropped without warning yesterday on Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026, is the most urgent music the band has released in decades. Their first collection of o…