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Knitting made quite the impression with Some Kind Of Heaven, a confident 2024 debut that reinforced the Montreal-based band’s hazy

Few songs have cast a longer shadow over the present-day emo scene than American Football’s downtrodden 1999 gem “Never Meant.”

Riley Downing has always been fixated on the sort of people who rarely find their way into songs. Which makes

“A Bullet Hole In My Ear” emerged from a fruitful conversation between Nanaco Sato and Jan Hoet, curator of 1992’s

Izzy Oram Brown approaches songwriting with intention, waiting until she’s ready to say something before setting aside everything else on

With surprisingly little fanfare over the past 15 years, Costa Rica’s Las Robertas have become one of world’s most affable

What began as a side project following a relocation to Asheville, N.C., has evolved into a compelling companion piece to

If you’re going to play space-oriented rock, Kohoutek might tell you, don’t mess around. The Philadelphia-based ensemble, whose membership orbits

Greazy Alice’s As Time Goes By (Loose) is an unassuming, under-the radar gem that recently fell into our lap through

Spoon and Ratboys at SummerStage, New York City, Photos by We Orshoski.

Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell at the Highmark Mann Center For The Performing Arts, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

Scott McCaughey at Chris & Deb’s House, Riverton, N.J. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Throughout his 20-year career, Robbie Furze has been most comfortable in a place where noise, melody and atmosphere intersect, from

Some albums take a while to sink in. (Growers.) Some never do. (Not sure what to call those.) Then there

Adam Rubenstein has spent the better part of four decades following his gut, from the melodic post-hardcore of Split Lip

For Maris Maeve O’Tierney, the music of Park Hills Circle convenes at the intersection of a vast and varied landscape.

Low Cut Connie has always equated a great rock show with humanity’s best face, blurring the line between music and

For Hamburg, Germany’s Ivy Flindt, Los Angeles proved to be both a destination and a state of mind. Produced by

There are plenty of songs about activism, but not as many capture the emotional resilience that inspires it. That’s pretty

“Friends In Dark Places” is the first Black Drumset track delivered entirely in the first person. That may not seem

Since launching Terror/Cactus in 2017, Martín Selasco has built an undulating body of work that treats Latin American musical traditions