Album: Silver Heir – Hindenburg Variations 
Album: The Del-Viles – It’s Just A Kiss-Off 
Single: Creepy Crawly – Buttercup 
Album: Mega Infinity – Harmonic Convergence
As the album closes and I play it over and over, I realize you’re not supposed to listen to it. Not with your ears. This album is an odyssey that you are supposed to feel.
Single: Wandour – Seaside Moments
It’s a heady, hypnotic kaleidoscope of electronica that, when it finally fades, leaves a nostalgic tear in your eye.
Album: Various Artists – Minute Tango
A unique album made up of songs all around a minute in length, fitting on a 7″ single.
Album: Daily Worker – Prefab Maverick
With more hooks than a fisherman’s tackle box, Prefab Maverick is an earworm factory.
EP: Midnight Granger – Maybe, Perhaps
Proof that some of the most compelling music still comes from one person, alone, figuring things out in the dark.
The Analog Trend and Music: a new frontier for cassette tapes
…in real life, creating an analog bag offers a valid alternative to digital problem behaviors. It may even be the first sign of a budding resistance against a modern-day technocracy.
Single: Hockitay – over/over
In the wake of their 2025 EP, slo mach, Hockitay reveals a more introspective style that reflects incisively on the toxic social media climate of our contemporary moment.
Single: All You Can Hate – Take Me To The Moon
Italian four-piece All You Can Hate doubles down on their raw-yet-refined vision
EP: Seal Club – Hollow
The new EP from Seal Club is a perfectly realised blend of assorted rock styles and just might be the first absolutely essential EP of the year.
Single: Cape Crush – Calm & Delivered
Ahead of their debut album, New England indie punk lets loose about the trials of keeping it together in the world
Album: Bobby Edge – Dirt Handsome vol. 1
In the 2023rd year of our lord, born of New York (possibly, or maybe he
Single: The Mad Mile – The Plates, The Candles, The Wine
The Mad Mile showcase that the best is still yet to come with their newest single ‘The Plates, The Candles, The Wine’.
Single: Leafboy – kit kat clock
Leafboy’s newest single once again showcases his mastery of vulnerability in both lyrics and music.
Single: Bliss Abyss – Red Disgusting
Bay Area dream punk blends heartbreak and desire into a new track both nostalgic and futuristic
Single: Michael Cormier-O’Leary – Del
These tender lyrics over a sparkling acoustic arrangement squeeze at the heartstrings.
Album: Sorry Sweetheart – Warm Room, Good Friends
It’s already been a great start to the year for ska-core, and Sorry Sweetheart, from Denver, Colorado (where the water boils faster) has launched that start into the stratosphere.
Single: No Floor – Helm
On the new single, Seattle’s No Floor doesn’t just try to make something heavy, but something felt.
Album: ka lok – Opium Boy
A triumphant debut which delivers an epic, cinematic sci-fi odyssey full of heart and soul.
Single: Sug Daniels – Black and Gifted (ambient version)
Through this lens, every detail feels poignant and deliberate.
Single: James Wyatt Crosby – And The Sky
And the Sky might be my favorite song of 2026 so far.
