By - Kayleigh Drake Ladies and gentlefolks, say hello to your new spring soundtrack As a Media Profesh, I’ve accepted my fair share of writing assignments. However, I don’t think I’ve ever accepted one faster than I did this Jetstream Pony review. This is a band I was (somehow) unfamiliar with up until recently, when I was asked to review their upcoming album, “Bowerbirds and Blue Things.” The band was […]

By - Paul Cordes Wilm A Change Is Gonna Come In the most beautiful way, this album could serve as Lonnie Holley’s musical epitaph. In an epic sense, it is not only his most complete and whole sounding work in his canon, there is a slightly historic feel to Tonky not present in his previous works, both personal and worldly. And Lonnie Holley is by all means a historic figure […]

By - Paul Cordes Wilm The World Needs More Music Like This Right Now Welcome to the soundtrack of your future. It comes directly to you via Bogota, Colombia and it heals all wounds, makes everything better, more danceable and (the best part!) just a little bit more hilariously absurd. I’m talking about the immaculate sounds of Los Pirañas, a trio who have been making music on and off as […]

By - Paul Cordes Wilm There’s A Shadow Hanging Over Me As long as I’ve been listening to music and in turn, as long as I’ve been making music (since I was a small kid), I’ve always been aware of and truly appreciated just how powerful of a tool it can be, especially when it comes to emotional purging or catharsis. I recall being around 5 years old listening to […]

By - Jason Hamric Cloakroom’s latest album, *The Last Leg of the Human Table*, released on February 28, 2025, via Closed Casket Activities, continues their trajectory of crafting immersive, heavy-lidded rock that balances melody with crushing weight. The opening track, “The Pilot,” immediately establishes the record’s tone, its cavernous riffing and spacey atmosphere pulling the listener in like a slow-motion nosedive into the abyss. The drumming keeps everything from slipping […]

By - Jason Hamric Shoegaze has always been about feeling more than anything else. It’s music that drowns you, lifts you, makes you weightless one second and completely crushes you the next. quiet pleasures, the latest EP from Glixen, really gets that feeling in a way that sticks. It’s heavy without being suffocating, dreamy without drifting too far away, and honestly, it just different and familiar at the same time. […]

By - Jackie Lo RIYL: TAGABOW, The Radio Dept, Tanukichan, My Bloody Valentine The best relationships start with that feeling that you’ve known someone forever even if you've just met and this is exactly what’s happened with Brazilian/American indie artist Winter (Samira Winter) & Philly duo Hooky (Scott Turner & Sam Silbert). What resulted was their EP Water Season that was released today via Julia’s War Recording. It’s the perfect […]

By: Kayleigh Drake Recommended if you like - Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine’s entire post-Ecstasy catalog, and the scene at the end of “The Neverending Story” when Atreyu is riding Falkor through space. One thing about me: I go HARD for some shoegaze. Specifically, shoegaze from the late 80s and early 90s, i.e., when the term was first coined to (somewhat pejoratively) describe an influx of bands who simply […]

By - Jason Hamric I don’t think there’s an easy way to explain how The Bad Fire makes you feel. It’s not just music—it’s a mood, a place you go when you don’t know where else to be. There’s something about Mogwai’s sound that feels old and new at the same time, like it’s been here forever, waiting for you to find it. The album kicks off with “God Gets […]