Adult Mom were quiet for a few years there. Stevie Knipe’s DIY indie-pop group released a one-off single and a Taylor Swift cover in 2022, and there was nothing for a few more years. There’s a good reason for that hiatus: Knipe was going through intensive cancer treatment. Next month, Adult Mom will return with the new album Natural Causes; …

aya came up adjacent to the deconstructed club boom of the early 2020s. Her murky, feverish breakout tracks, for labels including Wisdom Teeth and Tri Angle, traded hands like poorly kept secrets. Yet her music has always felt more like a tool for dissociation than a gesture to motion. Sure, many of the releases on YCO — the label she …

Last month, Billy Nomates announced her new album Metalhorse and shared the lead single “The Test.” Today, the project of Bristol’s Tor Maries is back with the exuberant “Plans.”

Over the past few months, Yoshika Colwell released the sprawling songs “Last Night” and “Fighting On The Wing.” It turns out those are taken from her debut album On The Wing, which the English singer-songwriter is announcing today.

“Kratom Headache Girls Night.” Now that’s a song title. And luckily for us, the song is as beautifully weird as its title. It’s by Asher White, the idiosyncratic New York-based musician who released her 15th album, Home Constellation Study, last year. Along with the release of “Kratom Headache Girls Night,” she’s also announcing her signing to Joyful Noise today.

It hasn’t even been three months since the Minneapolis singer, rapper, and producer ZORA released her last album. In January, ZORA dropped her LP BELLAdonna. Today, without any advance notice, she’s followed it up with a new full-length called Z D A Y. As you might imagine, the title was inspired by Beyoncé’s B’Day. On the new record, ZORA splatters …

Brooklyn indie rockers Stay Inside are back today with the new single “Monsieur Hawkweed,” their first new music since their February 2024 LP Ferried Away and their first release since signing to their new label home Tiny Engines. The song builds on the band’s usual mix of grungy emo with a bit of a folksy twang, resulting in what I …

Last year, Balance And Composure released with you in spirit, their first album since 2016’s Light We Made. The emo heroes are getting ready to open for Turnover on the Peripheral Vision anniversary tour, and now they’re back with the resentful anthem “Alive & Well.”

Every year, the Maryland indie-and-pop festival All Things Go gets a little bit bigger. Last year, for instance, All Thing Go expanded to NYC, with both festivals happening on the same weekend. This year, All Things Go adds another day; it’s now a three-day festival in both New York and Maryland. The organizers haven’t unveiled the lineup for the New …

Indie-poppers Artificial Go come from Cincinnati, but they sound like British people trying to sound like they’re German, or maybe like Swedes trying to sound like they’re Scottish. Their sound flashes back to a specific ’80s era of DIY music — the time when twee was just starting to emerge from post-punk. Bandleader Angie Willcutt sings in a declamatory chirp …