On “The Clearing,” the latest single from Emily Yacina, she taps into a special type of intimacy that makes the fragile veil of vulnerability slip away. “With your arms around me I forgot we were naked/ All sick and exposed to the elements,” Yacina sings. A lover’s limbs acts as a protective shield that transforms her world into something new …

On “The Clearing,” the latest single from Emily Yacina, she taps into a special type of intimacy that makes the fragile veil of vulnerability slip away. “With your arms around me I forgot we were naked/ All sick and exposed to the elements,” Yacina sings. A lover’s limbs acts as a protective shield that transforms her world into something new …

In a couple weeks, Leeds’ Eades are releasing their sophomore album Final Sirens Call. We’ve already gotten a preview of the forthcoming project with the singles “Did You Read The News” and “Backwards.” They have one more song to offer us, titled “Outside Nothing,” before we get to here the album in full.

hemlocke springs is one of the new pop stars you should be keeping an ear out for. She released her gloriously whimsical debut EP going…going…GONE! in 2023 and has covered some other alt-pop trailblazers like Doja Cat and Grimes. Today, she’s back with another new song called “the beginning of the end.”

We’ve only moved ahead one season since University released their debut album McCartney, It’ll Be OK — the one that starts with a song called “Massive Twenty One Pilots Tattoo” — yet the raw, mathy UK indie/punk band is already unleashing more songs on us. A three-track EP called YES is dropping later this month, preceded today by the song …

Robert Pollard, endlessly prolific frontman for the great indie rock institution Guided By Voices, does not seem like a particularly spooky individual, but he was a Halloween baby. (Maybe the voices guiding him are ghosts!) Pollard was born on Halloween 1957. This year, on the day that Pollard turns 68, Guided By Voices will release the somewhat pornographically titled Thick, …

Peter Silberman brought his elegant and ornate Brooklyn indie band the Antlers back from a seven-year break for 2021’s Green To Gold and its companion EP Losing Light. He’s continued to trickle out new music intermittently since then, and in July we got word that another new Antlers LP called Blight is coming in October, right in the thick of …

There are so many Willie Nelson albums, and yet nobody in their right mind would argue that there are too many Willie Nelson albums. Earlier this year, the 92-year-old country legend released his 154th studio LP Oh What A Beautiful World. This fall, Nelson will follow that album with a new tribute LP called Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle.

David Combs from the dearly departed DC indie-pop band Bad Moves has this cool side project Dim Wizard in which he welcomes in a rotating cast of underground stars, one song at a time. That process has led to fun collabs with artist combinations like Ratboys and Mike Krol and Jeff Rosenstock x Illuminati Hotties x Steve Ciolek.

A lot of interesting-looking movies are coming out in the next few months, and one of them is Him, the new supernatural horror thriller from writer-director Justin Tipping. I keep seeing Him previews when I’m at the movies, and it looks both trippy and scary. Tyriq Withers stars as a young football prospect who gets invited to an exclusive training …