Feb 22, 2026
Mirah • Dedication • 2026
It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Mirah in action. Seven years, a death, a birth, a pandemic, a near-silent stretch of motherhood—and on Dedication, the singer-songwriter doesn’t so much “return” as pick up the thread mid-sentence. Older and earthier and more weathered now, yes, but with that same razor-sharp focus and keening vulnerability. Paste
Feb 20, 2026
The Flip Phones • Spinning Adrift • 2025
"Floating Aimlessly" is about the search for purpose during a global pandemic and finding hope in the mundane and inspiration when you least expect it. “Tumbleweed” takes the EP to a darker place. Relating the story of Tumblegeddon, where a storm of giant 30-foot high tumbleweeds buried cars and trucks along a 20-mile stretch of highway for hours, the tumbleweed rolling with the wind symbolizes the futility of control.
Abronia • Shapes Unravel • 2026
Abronia’s addition of pedal steel to doomy psychedelic rock makes for a hallucinogenic racket leavened by folk’s tonal warmth and understated dynamics. Flanking the aforementioned instrument with organic percussion, thick, hazy electric guitars, and the odd melodica and tenor sax line, the Oregon sextet’s debut is fuzzy experimental guitar music with a stoned feel and a palpable wanderlust; desert psych adapted for a continental climate. BC
BEATRIX • Class Reunion • 2026
The official video for “Class Reunion” feels like Twin Peaks meets The Office, set in a sterile community center. With a firm grip around commonplace anxiety, it is mesmerizing how Beatrix stares straight into the camera and holds the viewer captive — Watch.
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Westside Cowboy • So Much Country 'Till We Get There • 2026
Riding a wave of industry excitement by a self-coined genre of 'Britainicana', Westside Cowboy's pairing of 90's alt-guitar and folkish lyricism has brought about one of the most thrilling bands in the UK who find themselves in every music conversation. WtHB
Feb 4, 2026
ifitbeyourwill S06E28 • link3
Quiet can hit harder than loud when the songs leave space to breathe. For link3—the duo of James and sunniva—that principle wasn't an aesthetic choice so much as a necessity. Their debut, On The Outline, emerged from bedroom studios, repurposed equipment, and a shared conviction that releasing imperfect work beats hoarding it indefinitely. The result is a slowcore record that trades polish for proximity, and listeners are responding in kind: instrumentals scored to wedding aisles, fan-made recreations, unsolicited messages about memory and tenderness.
James writes guitar-first, melodies arriving before lyrics, arrangements built on restraint rather than density. Sunniva's vocals—shaped by years of imitating favorite artists until her own tone surfaced—lock into his with an ease that belies the duo's origins as an online connection. They met through happenstance, bonded over a late-blooming obsession with albums as cohesive objects, and committed to a DIY ethos that prioritized momentum over perfectionism. The bathroom fan hum on early demos? Part of the texture now.
The pair attributes much of their sound to taste as a curatorial tool—knowing what to leave out, when to stop tweaking, how restraint can magnify emotion. Acoustic hush meets gently produced textures; male-female harmonies circle each other without crowding. It's the kind of record that rewards patient listening, and its intimacy has found an audience hungry for exactly that.
Now they're eyeing Montreal studios and string players, hoping to carry their quiet core into higher fidelity without sacrificing the living-room warmth that made On The Outline work. Violin lines floating over guitar, a producer who respects silence, slowcore sensibilities with broader reach. The blueprint is there. Whether they can scale up without smoothing over the rough edges that made them compelling in the first place—that's the open question. For now, the bedroom recordings are doing the work.
Feb 1, 2026
Ritt Momney • GUNNA (Live 2026)
To make BASE, Jack Rutter (who performs as Ritt Momney) had to let go of everything. He had to get to the point where he thought he might quit music, forever. Tear everything down and build it all up again. Rutter’s story is one of reinventing yourself. After viral success with the release of his debut, Her and All My Friends, Rutter put out a cover of Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Put Your Records On.” The song was an unexpected hit, taking off almost half a year after it was initially released, and landing in the Billboard Hot 100. In 2021, he released his second full-length record Sunny Boy, a record of warm to the touch bedroom pop. And then Rutter started to fall out of love with music.
Jan 31, 2026
Lande Hekt • Lucky Now • 2026
Hekt’s musical touchstones — The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements — remain the same, but at the same time she’s delved deeper into other influences. Lucky Now is indebted to 1980s twee-pop and jangle-pop like The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh and The Bats, plus more modern iterations of the sound such as Autocamper and Jeanines, in its ecstatic, soaring melodies and gorgeous, tactile guitars. The sound is fitting for Hekt’s new lyrical outlook, where, though despair and anxiety rear their heads, she digs deep to find the gratitude. “I wanted to try and push for something slightly more positive, which I’m trying to do more of generally — just to not fall apart,” Hekt says.
Prism Shores • Softest Attack • 2026
Prism Shores are Montreal janglers who cherry-pick the record crate for influence, recalling the best shambling C86, fuzzed-out power pop, and glistening shoegaze while leaving an idiosyncratic stamp. Softest Attack, their new album, arrives April 10, 2026, on Meritorio and Having Fun (Canada). Recorded hot on the heels of 2025’s breakthrough effort Out From Underneath, it finds the band catapulting into a more immediate, hook-laden direction, relying less on nocturnal atmospherics and leaning into the pure, undiluted strength of their melancholic songwriting.
Jan 29, 2026
ifitbeyourwill S06E27 • Hand Gestures
A packed car pointed west, and a travel-size instrument wedged between sleeping bags—this is how records get made when life is crowded and the need to create won’t wait. We sit down with Brian Russ of Hand Gestures to trace the long arc behind a self-titled album that sounds lived-in, melodic, and unforced.
Russ maps a route from college shows in Philadelphia to AmeriCorps on Pine Ridge, then into Brooklyn’s warehouse-show ecosystem, where CMJ weekends blurred into community and bands kept each other afloat. Along the way, he built Campers Rule Records—a micro-label with pragmatic ideals: small cassette runs, break-even math, and hands-on help that gets music over the line.
The mechanics matter. Voice memos from a cross-country drive became song kernels; late nights with an interface turned sketches into arrangements; a remote drummer locked in the pulse. Brian tracked guitars, bass, keys, and vocals himself, then sequenced the record for an arc that rewards close listening.
There’s life in the margins, too—two teachers, two kids, and a creative practice built one quiet hour at a time. We talk rebuilding a live band post-COVID, why the album title became the band’s name, and how to stay sane about press and reach. For anyone invested in DIY recording, Brooklyn indie circuits, sustainable labels, or the alchemy of turning notes into songs, this conversation offers a clear, hopeful blueprint.
Jan 27, 2026
Dutch Interior • Ground Scores • 2026
“The music of [Dutch Interior] feels loose on purpose, and it’s held together by something intuitive, a shared language that doesn’t need translating.”
— Rolling Stone, “Artist You Need to Know”
“There’s something about [Dutch Interior’s] music that can’t be copied – a sense of character, an evocative-ness of atmosphere.” — Clash
“It’s easy to get caught up in the fun [Dutch Interior] whips up.” — Pitchfork
“Rustic music that is romantic but not sickly, earnest without becoming cringe, and completely free of ego.” — The FADER
— Rolling Stone, “Artist You Need to Know”
“There’s something about [Dutch Interior’s] music that can’t be copied – a sense of character, an evocative-ness of atmosphere.” — Clash
“It’s easy to get caught up in the fun [Dutch Interior] whips up.” — Pitchfork
“Rustic music that is romantic but not sickly, earnest without becoming cringe, and completely free of ego.” — The FADER
Susan O'Neill & Valerie June • 'For What It's Worth’ • 2026
Stephen Stills wrote this classic 1967 Buffalo Springfield protest song in response to the 1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots. The timeless lyrics conveyed the generation gap and the efforts to oppress those who do not conform to societal norms. The tune became a universal anthem of human rights that expanded beyond eras, demographics, and specific movements. The tune’s continued relevance is highlighted by this recent reworking by Susan O’ Neill & Valerie June. The video also includes clips of protest movements over the years. All proceeds of the song go to Amnesty International. protest music
Jan 26, 2026
Marta Del Grandi • Alpha Centauri feat. Guinevere & Gaia Morelli • 2026
Italian singer-songwriter Marta Del Grandi returns with Dream Life, an album that bustles in a field of dreams, a multi-dimensional panoramic snapshot punctuated with serene disillusionment, that transcends musical boundaries as personal hopes and aspirations are cast against the vastness of the stars and beyond.
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