if it be your will
Feb 16, 2025
Arenas • All the Best Ones • 2025
Ben Kweller • Dollar Store (feat. Waxahatchee) • 2025
Califone • The Villager's Companion • 2025
Feb 14, 2025
Dutch Mustard • Thank You (Live for Propeller Sessions) • 2025
Animal Scream • Slow Down • 2025
Real Sickies • Tirage • 2025
Edmonton’s pop-punk powerhouse Real Sickies are set to release their fifth full-length album, Under a Plastic Bag, on March 14, 2025, via Stomp Records. The album’s first advance single, “Triage,” is out now, offering an electrifying glimpse into the band’s knack for blending raw punk energy with sharp, melodic hooks. Known for their relentless touring and infectious anthems, Real Sickies have cemented their status as a standout act in the global punk scene, with even Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day calling them his favorite Canadian punk band.
Feb 13, 2025
Tindersticks • Soft Tissue • 2025
“From ‘70s soul to glowing strings, the cult outfit continue to illuminate the fringes of pop music,
celebrating the beauty in small things” – The Guardian ★★★★ “Album Of The Week”
"Beautifully arranged and bursting with drama and emotion… They are a band with a catalog worth getting lost in and Soft Tissue stands as one of their finest moments." – AllMusic ★★★★
"One of their best… It works so well that it’s hard to believe it took Tindersticks 30 years to make a record like this."
– BrooklynVegan, Indie Basement #1 Album of the Week
“Tindersticks singer/songwriter Stuart A. Staples is the consummate baroque pop singer.”
– Vogue
Steel Wool • Fading • 2025
"Instead of burying anxieties behind the haze, Steel Wool sit theirs right over its surface." - rcmndedlisten
"...the Los Angeles-based outfit’s debut single sees them subtly pushing the boundaries of shoegaze…" - Joy of Violent Movement
"...reverberates with slow, plodding, buzzy stadium guitars and huge, brooding crooner vocals." - Merry-Go-Round Magazine
Ducks Ltd. • Full Performance (Live on KEXP) • 2024
Feb 6, 2025
Feb 5, 2025
New Order • Lonesome Tonight Live at The Hacienda • 1983
Feb 3, 2025
Avery Friedman • ‘New Thing’ • 2025
Friedman had always felt that songwriting was just something that other people did until she was pushed by a transcendent live music experience and a traumatic mugging to seek catharsis through music. Playing her first show in July 2024, she soon shared stages with h. pruz, Dead Gowns, and Sister., and she impressed the latter’s James Chrisman enough that he offered to record her debut album. The result was ‘New Thing,’ a sonically deep and layered debut that sees Friedman explore her trauma and queerness with a raw open-heartedness inspired by artists like Adrianne Lenker, Squirrel Flower, and Babehoven.
The lead single, “Flowers Fell,” is an ode to transitional stages that uses the changing seasons to demonstrate the growth Friedman has experienced by finally immersing herself in her art. The song’s tense guitar bursts offer an illustration of resistance before a starry-eyed chorus blooms, and Friedman sings, “The flowers fell off when I was asleep / But that’s okay, ‘cause now it’s all green,” as she finds acceptance and resilience in the face of change.
“The opening melody for “Flowers Fell” came to me on a headphone-less walk home one night down Greene Avenue in Brooklyn. I had noticed that the flowers that once lined the branches had been replaced by leaves -- seemingly in the blink of an eye. I was briefly disappointed until I considered that the petals had made way for something more sustainable – and equally full of life. The song became a meditation on the concept of place – how things of our surroundings like ‘sidewalks,’ and ‘balconies’ and ‘trees,’ can act as fixed backdrops upon which we measure our personal evolutions (and the evolutions of our relationships) across the span of many seasons.” – Avery Friedman
Magana • ‘Bad News’ • 2025
“The sound of late-night emotional fragility writ large…Recalling Torres and Sharon Van Etten at their most intimate moments…Magana’s parched vocal is a complete heartbreaker.” – THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“Magana wades through earth and space on Teeth.” – POST-TRASH
“Teeth is a testimony to one’s bravery in facing what they have always feared, and trying to find a way to escape from one’s own isolation.” – KRUI
frog • 1000 Variations on the Same Song • 2025
“If the rest of the album sounds like this single, then I’m in. “MIXTAPE LINER NOTES VAR. VII” is lo-fi greatness, the first verse name-dropping both My Chemical Romance and Big Star (taste). In the chorus, Daniel Bateman sings poignantly, “I can’t justify it, it isn’t rational/ I get high and cry it over broken Casios.” Amazing stuff!” – STEREOGUM
"Daniel’s humdrum American portraiture and embodiment of passionate persistence have defined Frog’s sound for nearly a decade, and on Grog, a brotherly bond encourages those songwriting traits to get louder, bolder, and weirder without sacrificing any of the heart." – PITCHFORK
"...a distinct, off-kilter personality that’s just slightly off in the best way possible. The end results are riveting—or should I say ribbeting?" – BANDCAMP DAILY
Jan 31, 2025
Rubblebucket • Anyone Else But You [Live @ SiriusXM] • 2025
Jan 26, 2025
The Golden Dregs • Godspeed • 2025
“We’ve been dying to meet you,” Ben Woods sings on “Linoleum”, the second single from Godspeed, album number four for The Golden Dregs. This rousing greeting doubles as a mission statement for the project. What began as a solo endeavour by the then Cornwall-based multi-instrumentalist and producer has grown into a six-member ensemble, each artist deeply rooted in London’s grassroots music scene. On Godspeed, for the first time, each band member contributes individually, but Woods’ songwriting and resonant baritone remain at the core — an anchor welcoming listeners into the fold.
Jan 25, 2025
Zoya Zafar • Tunnel Vision • 2025
Not the same as the album version! This is how I first wrote it and how I play it live. In October 2023, I was in NYC, and Gordon Raphael squeezed me into his schedule to record this at Mercy Sound Studios in East Village.