“And your destination lies / in the stories that don’t resolve / for endless sunrise,” Scottish band, Idlewild, sing to end their self-titled album which came out last year. It is a contemplative a…

I’ve been meaning to get out to a Seven Teller show. They’re a Baltimore band who’ve been building momentum for the last three years or more, finding air time on the radio and touring the country, …

Central, PA’s folk alternative rocker, Matt Tarka, has been pushing his own boundaries creatively, recently. Working with Alexandria, VA producer Jarrett Nicolay at his Mixtape Studios, he’s done a…

“Neighborhood libraries”: it’s almost a redundant phrase. To have books and printers and events available to a local community is what libraries are all about. Ideally, the two words are almost syn…

“Take your time with my heart / it’s been rattled by thunder,” Brandon Flowers of the Killers sings on his solo record, Thrasher, which just came out. His songs with the Killers are pop alternative…

The sound of a baby, laughing and splashing in the bathtub. That captures the heart of Stevie Wonder’s much-celebrated Songs In The Key Of Life, which turns 50 years old today. Stevie Wonder, who c…

“Don’t remember, don’t remember you / All that surrounds me appears as if new,” Australia’s Julia Jacklin sings on her latest album of indie crooner songs, called The Gem. She talked on World Cafe …

“All these waves of hysteria / washing over pains of America / each one breaks you down… / instant validation.” It’s a lyric that sounds like it was written by Sufjan Stevens, and really it’s…

“I’ve got a secret and if I keep it / I just might burst out in flames / I hope you see what’s changed in me / and not notice what’s still the same,” Central Pennsylvania’s Rutherford Hill sings on…

A little bit of drum machine flavored Postal Service, a little bit of pop-era Coldplay, a little bit of Bon Iver croon, the latest EP from Neil Durrant’s Never Enough In Love, is a mixed bag for me…

“When you speak it’s like my favorite song / you can play it for me all day long / I love that melody.” Son Lux has been making their futuristic soul music for over a decade now and it’s just…

“Pay no mind to the words of others, they’re like rain falling in the gutter / In the end what they say don’t matter, ‘cause you’re only fighting shadows.” Those are words to live by, from West Che…

“August storms making steam in the gutter / oh my love, oh my love,” Felix Walworth of Brooklyn, NY’s indie famed band Told Slant starts on their first album in six years, What’s Up. Steam out of t…

If Beck’s former album was the “Morning Phase,” his latest album Ride Lonesome is certainly his night album. It starts out with the title cut, the loneliest of songs, which recalls the production a…

“Watch yr back boys / she’ll try and roll ya / entertainment and coca-cola, yes.” Sylvan Esso just came out with their first album in four years, Ow Infinity, and it’s a pop album that’s as s…

“I have seen the old gods go / and I have seen the new gods come,” St. Louis’s Low Cloud sing knowingly to open their first EP, Ferris Wheel, released in April of last year. Lead singer and rhythm …

Sometimes all you need is a certain special voice, to enrapture you and get the point across. Kate Stephenson, who I found on IG (she told a coffee shop worker who asked if she was an “influencer” …

Wailing saxophones, shredding guitars, noodling bass. Fake Radio are a new “genreless” band from DC with three vocalists and propensity for introspection. “We are the thoughts you’ve put off thinki…

With the recent passing of David Fair, half of the original line up of outsider indie rockers, Half Japanese, who started in Uniontown, MD, I finally dove into one of their latest records, after th…

“Old reverberations, the earth shaking / demolition music playing / on and on and on and on and on.” Hudson Valley, NY’s “drone folk” duo, Cut Chord, create music that is heavy on the poetry and th…

“Oh you’re a bright star shining / In the sky of fear / Oh you’re a red light burning / In the stratosphere / Da da da da da dum,” mainstay Baltimore “piano man,” Tim Kaye, sang on his 2005 release…

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Purple mountains, stadium lights, the fingertips on someone’s back and feeling the weight of the world. Virginia’s Dogwood Tales has come out with their second LP of 2026, called Every Star In Rock…

Sam Sodomsky of NY, NY’s Bird Calls has figured out what indie Americana has always needed: a gong to end a song. Jokes aside, I think Sam has figured out what indie Americana needs, and does it we…

For a band like Fond, from Alexandria, Virginia, who is obviously influenced by emo bands like Jimmy Eat World, it makes sense to start their latest record with a track called, “Loserville.” Their …

DC’s Flowerbomb has been on tour recently, hitting such places as Charlottesville, VA, Chapel Hill, NC, and Philadelphia, PA. Last night they had a full house at their homecoming show at Union Stag…

“Say yes! / I’m down if you’re down / Say yes! / Like Yoko and John.” Weezer just dropped their Gold Album and it really is gold. I’m not sure that without MTV behind them, they’ll get a gold recor…

“Fire, all around / Fire, in my heart and in the ground,” Glasgow’s Goliath, which is the brain child of Jack Fagan, sings on their debut album, Everyday Hymns. Jack and crew certainly have a fire …

“Lost boys, find me,” Phoebe Bridgers sings on her much anticipated album, Lost Weekend. Although I think that that might be one of the best songs of the year, I was a bit underwhelmed by the…

“I painted the frame of my mirror 59 colors / cuz I thought that would be a good way to spend a day,” surreal pop artist Morgan Weidinger sings on her latest album, Live To Tell No Tale. That kind …

Blaring horns! Lush strings! Songs about the annoying neighborhood chihuahuah caught up in a pit bull’s jaws! Simon P Moore’s latest album, Simon P Moore Has Done and Gone Done the Gonest Thing, ha…

“I am not me, just a meat suit with preference for reality frequency,” Kate Davis sings on her latest offering, a three song EP called Then We Could Be Together As A Family. It recalls the moving s…

“And in this hollow I know we could be given a try / but it’s the same old joke and the same old script I write,” Seattle’s Erick Newbill who is known for his work with Subways on the Sun sings on …

“Just a hundred words that I have for you / the same hundred words that I want from you,” Marketa Irglova sings to end the recent reunion release of Swell Season with old partner, Glen Hansard in 2…

“Some days I might not feel like living / But something in us never dies.” With influences from Oasis to LCD Sound System to, dare I say, Youth Lagoon, Michigander’s Jason Singer manages to carve o…

“The pleasure and agony’s all mine,” Hayley Williams sings on her new hit solo album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party. There’s hints of her band Paramore, and many of the songs, if they lose their…

“If your plans fall through, as they sometimes do, I think you oughta come see me.” Baltimore’s Bill Homans sings songs about the tenderness and tenuousness of love, with his band The Righteous Ram…

“Self awareness turns me on / accountability is sexy,” Baltimore’s Drew Danburry of the proto-pop indie band Icarus Phoenix sings of his latest EP, Gallop. It has in its DNA bands like Moldy …

“The spirit hovered over the waters.” That is a scripture that came to mind as I was listening to the recorded wind in the song “Tilting” off of Michael Cloud Duguay’s latest album, Kingdom C…

“Oh what am I to think what the writing of a thousand lifetimes could not explain, if all the forest trees were pens and all the oceans—ink?” mewithoutYou’s Aaron Weiss sings on their 2006 album, B…

Vancouver artist Jordan Klassen has teamed up with pianist Alstad to form the group, Hegira, a magnification of each artist’s beautiful moodiness in an EP called Crossing A River. “Cause I won’t de…

Country and country-adjacent music, like Erin Lunsford’s, an award-winning artist out of Virginia—when it’s done well—seems to be just an extension of the land, an overflow of meaningful relationsh…

As a direct response to AI companies trying to profit off of musicians’ creations in something of a violation of creators and the creative process and even the natural world, Joyful Noise has decid…

You’ve heard the phrase, “Touch grass,” before. It’s an admonition to get off your computer, unplug, and experience a bit of the outside world. Well David Nicholas of the band, Sansyou, has offered…

“We’re not a cult / So please calm down / We’re only here / To rock your town.” In the spirit of Elephant Six community rock (with trumpets and gang vocals and freak folk guitars galore), Pennsylva…

When an artist in a band does solo stuff, it tends to be a bit of a departure, oftentimes a downgrade, from the regular band stuff. Maybe songs that didn’t make the cutting room floor for the band’…

“You fell asleep in your easy chair,” Brandon Buckner of indie apartment rock outfit, Vest With Hood, sings on the song “Recumbent” to open his seven track album, Collected EP, which came out this …

“The weight is replaced with lightest embrace, the tightrope artist coming face-to-face / with how truly paper-thin the wire is.” Dusty Housecat, otherwise known as Jason Reed, tackles grief …