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John Carpenter has spent half a century defining the texture of cinematic dread, yet Cathedral feels like a distinct, high-voltage mutation of his sonic DNA. Serving as the direct companion soundtrack to his Storm King Comics graphic novel coauthored with Sandy King and Sean Sobczak this release translates a dream Carpenter had in 2024 into a grueling, LA-gothic nightmare. Where his Lost Themes series offered scores for unmade "movies of […]

If you’ve been following Bishop Briggs since her massive breakout hit "River," you know she’s never been an artist to hide behind vague metaphors. Her music hits hard, loud, and straight to the chest. But on her third studio album, Tell My Therapist I’m Fine, the alternative powerhouse delivers her most personal and loudest project yet. Released five years after her 2019 sophomore album CHAMPION, Briggs returns from a quiet […]

Reinventing standard rock tropes in Costa Rica, New York’s indie royalty return with an adventurous, occasionally weird, and deeply rewarding seventh chapter. Six years after taking home a Grammy for The New Abnormal, The Strokes return with Reality Awaits, their seventh studio album and perhaps their most intrigue-filled project to date. Arriving via Cult Records/RCA, the record reunites the classic New York quintet (Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., […]

Cheekface – Podium In an era dominated by noise and collective angst, Los Angeles indie-rock trio Cheekface continues to solidify their reign as master archivists of modern existential absurdity. On their latest effort, Podium, the band doubles down on what they do best: pairing deadpan, razor-sharp observations of 21st-century life with irrepressibly catchy art-punk rhythms. From the opening track, Podium delivers a masterclass in tension and relief. Vocalist Greg Katz’s […]

Deadlight Dance Returns with 'Vox Populi': A Masterclass in Modern Darkwave and Post-Punk As post-punk, darkwave, and modern goth continue their formidable resurgence, Deadlight Dance finds itself perfectly positioned to navigate the dark prevailing zeitgeist. Yet to accuse this duo of jumping on a fashionable bandwagon would be to miss the point entirely. Crafting music steeped in shadows represents both the foundation and the outer edge of their creative history. […]

Rolling Stones - The Foreign Tongues The release of Foreign Tongues proves that the creative surge fueling 2023’s Hackney Diamonds was no fluke. Rather than resting on the multi-platinum laurels of their Grammy-winning comeback, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood retreated to West London's Metropolis Studios with producer Andrew Watt to deliver a 14-track follow-up that sounds remarkably urgent. Clocking in at just over 62 minutes, Foreign Tongues avoids […]

Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy (Roswell/RCA Records) That return to a more visceral, instinctive drive is felt the second the needle drops. Forget the polished, multi-layered perfection of the band's recent eras; Your Favorite Toy is an urgent, raw, and beautifully imperfect record. Co-produced by the band alongside engineer Oliver Roman, the album sounds as if they stripped away the studio gloss to reveal the rough-hewn wood underneath. The […]

Release Date: June, 29 -  2026 Label: Dead Broke Records There’s a specific kind of magic in a great "basement pop" record. It doesn't need slick, high-gloss production to work; it just needs a ton of heart, massive hooks, and the kind of warmth that makes you feel like you’re crammed into a house show with fifty of your closest friends. That’s exactly what Philadelphia’s Big Nothing delivers on their […]

Release Date: June 26, 2026 Label: Self-Released Devil’s Bowl is the second studio album by Unlettered, the experimental post-punk project spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mike Knowlton (Gapeseed, Poem Rocket). Moving away from the deeply personal themes of grief that defined their 2024 debut Five Mile Point, this record delivers a gritty, calculated look at modern civic paranoia and digital exhaustion. Recorded at Knowlton’s studio, The Swamp, in Florida, the […]