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Chatting with The Burbs

With a sound that lands somewhere between grunge-soaked grit and melodic pop sensibility, The Burbs are carving their own lane in Australia's indie rock...

”Dig My Shoeshine, Mama”: Ed Roman’s ‘Pawnshop Ghettoblaster’ Is a Grotesque Groove Odyssey

If Tom Waits huffed helium in a pawn shop bathroom while channeling Frank Zappa's deranged ghost, and then danced a barefoot tango with George...

Album: Beautiful Lies by Eric Sleeper

Writing rock guitar riffs has become a more risky business as time went on. Overuse of pentatonic runs and excessive overdrive used to saturate...

THIS IS BRINGING PLAYFULNESS INTO ROMANCE!

Brisbane’s Wattmore return with Romantic Side, a genre-smashing single that reinjects cheeky energy and rebellious charm into the all-too-serious world of modern romance. Blending...

DO YOU FEEL IT? DO YOU FEEL IT TOO?

With Intertwined b/w Intertwined (acoustic), Delta of Venus explore the fragile edge between resonance and restraint. Blending elements of art rock, post-punk, shoegaze, and...

THIS IS SUCH AN AUDITORY PICNIC!

When you throw a garage jam, a stoner session, and a lo-fi surf rock trip into a blender and hit “record,” you get This...

CAUSE SOMETIMES CHAOS IS WHERE FREEDOM IS BORN!

At 43, most people are settling into life, not setting it on fire. But Morgenrøde, the one-man Danish powerhouse from Løkken, takes the spark...

DARKNESS IS PSYCHEDELIA, FELLAS!

There’s something beautifully out of time about Dark Energy, the sophomore album from COOLONAUT, a Scottish-born, rural-Australia-based artist and doctor who self-records on an...

WHO KNEW THAT CATCHING FIRE COULD BE SO PLAYFUL?

With her latest alt-rock single Burning, Oakland’s Naomi Neva delivers a fierce reckoning dressed in distortion and ashes, and somehow makes devastation sound almost...

PREPARE FOR AN EMOTIONAL BATTLEFIELD!

With their latest release “Ready For War,” Cleveland-based duo How We Feel launched themselves into the modern rock arena not with polish for the...