The busy indie auteur Jay Som is producing new records from people like Whitmer Thomas and her old touring band Fime. She’s also getting ready to release her own new album Belong, which has guest appearances from people like Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins. Adkins shows up on lead single “Float,” an absolute banger. Today, Jay …

Silvana Estrada will hit the road in the U.S. this winter. This morning (Aug. 12), the Mexican singer-songwriter announced the dates for her 2025 Vendrán Suaves Lluvias Tour. Following the release of her 2022 album Marchita, Silvana Estrada has become one of Mexico’s most promising and profound folk artists. Later that year, she won Best The post Silvana Estrada Announces …

Earlier this year, the great producer Madlib was among the many musicians who lost everything in the LA wildfires. Madlib had a library of thousands upon thousands of records in his home, and they all burned, along with his recording equipment and his home itself. That’s a huge loss, for Madlib and for the rest of the world. But Madlib …

A couple of months ago Just Mustard shared “Pollyanna,” a piece of nice, fuzzed-out indie pop. Now we know that song will serve as the opening track to the Irish band’s forthcoming album We Were Just Here, which they’re announcing today while sharing the title track.

Since October of last year, Sorry have released a captivating string of songs: “Waxwing,” “Jetplane,” and “Jive.” It turns out those are taken from their just-announced album COSPLAY, which arrives this fall. Now the British indie band is unveiling an entrancing new preview called “Echoes.”

Avalon Emerson, a onetime Stereogum Artist To Watch, straddles a strange line between dance music and indie-pop, but she’s leaning toward the former on her ongoing project Perpetual Emotion Machine, a series of tracks that she created for her DJ sets. Emerson has been cranking out Perpetual Emotion Machine singles all year. Last month, she released two new tracks, “Sort …

Twen, the alt-rock duo of Jane Fitzsimmons and Ian Jones, put out new music pretty often; last year we got singles like “Stunts” and “Lucky Onze” which appeared on the band’s EP Infinite Sky. Today Twen return with “Godlike,” which also serves as the lead single to their November-bound new album Fate Euphoric.

Last month, Hannah Frances returned with “Falling From And Further,” her first new material since last year’s Keeper Of The Shepherd. It turns out that song is taken from her just-announced third album Nested In Tangles, which arrives this fall. The singer-songwriter is sharing the transcendent second single “Surviving You” today.

In the spring of 2024, Cindy Lee became a sensation. Patrick Flegel, formerly of the indie band Women, had been recording and performing as the drag persona Cindy Lee for years, attracting a fervent cult following in the process. But Diamond Jubilee — a sprawling double-disc project that felt like a secret radio broadcast from an alternate past, streamable only …

Over the last few years, there’s been a boom of interest in corridos tumbados, the genre that fuses regional Mexican music with American trap. That combination has led artists like Peso Pluma and Fuerza Regida to stardom, and it essentially started with Natanael Cano, a prolific 24-year-old artist from Sonora, Mexico. On Sunday, Cano had a very bad night.