The Adelaide, Australia indie rock band Swapmeet recently made a bunch of noise with their singles “I Know!,” “Sand,” and “2 C U,” and they’re one month away from the release of their full-length debut Mount Zero. Today, they announce a North American tour and share the skittering, whispery new single “Halfway.” It sounds like circa-now bedroom-pop, but with just …

For many years, singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe has been making dark, rapturous goth-folk. You can put on her music, and even if you aren’t actively listening, it can reshape the atmosphere of a room, the way that a burning incense stick might. Wolfe’s most recent album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She came out in 2024. These days, …

The Tubs, your jangly, folky British post-punk favorites, announced their signing to Merge Records this past spring by successfully translating Metallica’s classic heavy metal ballad “Fade To Black” into their own signature style. The news came barely a year after Cotton Crown, yet it portended a new album announcement sooner rather than later. Today it has come: Tubs LP3 Hard …

Since their great 2023 album Death Is Nothing To Us, Fiddlehead have been doing lots of festivals, guesting on friends’ records, and forming side projects. But the post-hardcore band is back today with the announcement of a new EP called Baby I’ll Change, out this week. The post Fiddlehead Announce New EP Out Friday: Hear Title Track “Baby I’ll Change” …

I spent most of May at a sprawling state park, striding down dirt paths beside billowing meadows, through insect-ridden trails in the woods, and along the entire shore of the beach two miles from the parking lot: a glittering reward for the long, sweltering walk. When I listen to the gentle, sunlit songs of Tasha’s new album You Are Spring!, …

Frankie Rose was a key participant in the Brooklyn indie rock universe many years ago, when she did stints in bands like Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, and Crystal Stilts. For way longer than that, though, Rose has been making rapturous, shimmery ’80s-style synthpop, and she’s very good at it. In recent years, Rose has been a go-to opener for …

Josaleigh Pollett hails from Salt Lake City, where they make tender indie singer-songwriter music with a mild electronic edge. They’ve been building toward the release of new album If I Let It Quiet, sharing a string of advance tracks that reveal a considerable talent. The post Josaleigh Pollett – “Like A River” appeared first on Stereogum.

Last month, Florist leader Emily A. Sprague released a single called “Double Moon.” For a while now, Sprague has been releasing ambient electronic music under her own name, and that stuff has stood in stark contrast to the stuff that she makes with Florist. But on “Double Moon,” Sprague sang softly over one of her solo soundscapes, unlocking an interesting …

Those hyperpopping sibs are at it again. The glitchy, glossy, maximalist NYC duo Frost Children return today with word of a new EP, Tweaker Poem, arriving in just a few weeks. It’s the follow-up to last year’s Sister, and it arrives on the heels of a very hectic and chaotic 2026 so far. It sounds like things have been even …

The guy from the Killers caught the country music bug. Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has released a couple of solo albums over the years, the most recent of which was 2015’s quietly excellent The Desired Effect. We last heard from the Killers when they released Pressure Machine in 2021. In 2023, Flowers said that he’d scrapped an entire halfway-done Killers …