Single: Nicole Saphos Band – Virtually For No One
The Nicole Saphos Band deftly adapts a number of compelling influences and styles for their
Month: April 2026
Single: The Chains – Be Careful What You Wish For
The Copenhagen ska band combines two-tone, ska, boss reggae, and rocksteady to put a new spin on their signature sound.
Single: Holy Schnikes! – Dear Mister President
Cali ska supports No Kings in launching pure punk aggression against Trump’s regime and their authoritarian agenda.
Single: Yasu Cub – en
Listen to the slowcore centerpiece of Yasu Cub’s recent sophomore album ‘my early years, your spiral arms’.
The Art of Positivity in Music
Every day, a great deal of good is done in music communities around the world. There is still a lot of fantastic music made that deserves our attention.
Single: Hubbell Benson – Born To Lose
The New Jersey brothers’ psych rock outfit’s new single is quirkily infectious in the best way.
Single: Frog Fortress – Hardcore Band
A snotty, snarky punky song with it’s tongue firmly in cheek, “Hardcore Band” is a high-octane brainstorm of a song built around juxtaposition and dreams.
Single: Oh Doom! – How To Destroy Anything
Back with another methodical post-rock behemoth that’s more mantra than mere song, Oh Doom! are a force to be reckoned with.
Single: Still Bones – Long Way
These Baltimore bones are anything but still; the skeletons at Druid Ridge Cemetery are dancing, ‘cuz this track rocks!
Single: Mono Mochi – Cats
Folky and foreboding, the new tune from this Swiss quintet is a change of pace. Quietly beautiful and subtly mesmeric, it’s an off-kilter treat.
Album: Air Mail – a.m. Continental
Air Mail’s new album is pleasant and enjoyable little jaunt through precious songs that capture the feeling of an impressionable journey.
Single: Chi & Me x Peli Gene – Before You Were
Jangly and propulsive, the debut single from Chi & Me is a bit of a journey, but one that’s well worth going on.
Album: Empired – Strikes Back
A couple years after their debut and with the world at least twenty times worse, Empired return with an album speaking more truth to power than ever before.
Single: Thomas Prothero – Quiet Life
A song of two halves comprised of analogue warmth, creamy guitars, pulsating synths and a surprise explosion, Prothero has outdone himself yet again.
Single: lazybed – acquaintance
Macau-based songwriter Richard Winstanley channels assorted rock greats on the debut single from his new DIY lo-fi project.
Single: Raine – Summer Rain
Raine’s always been good at capturing relationships, and her new single “Summer Rain” – sounding like a gentle breeze – isn’t any different.
Single: Birds? – Over It
Birds? is here to remind the world that Pennsylvania is, and shall remain, the beating heart of fourth wave emo.
Single: Colourwash – Frogman
“Frogman”, the debut single from Colourwash, has the speed of punk, the effects/production elements of alt-rock, and the soul of 1990s/2000s emo.
Single: Frog – Dark Out
At once longing and unapologetic, “Dark Out” is yet another enchanting portrait from Frog. Like the band itself, it contains multitudes.