Winston Hytwr collects 12 songs from obscure Columbus, Ohio lo-fi tune machine Winston Hightower. It makes all kinds of sense that Olympia's K Records would champion this hard-working bedroom ...

The Mothers of Lovers - An exciting young Indie Rock band formed in Manhattan in 2022. Led by co-founders Neil Tucci and Alex ...

Back in 2021, the cult-beloved Connecticut indie band Ovlov released Buds, a great album that occasioned a Stereogum interview. Today, the band has released frontman Steve Hartlett’s demos for that ...

Bring Me The Horizon have just announced a massive 23-song album, Lo-files. The record – which is due out this Friday, July 11 – will consist of “23 lo-fi reworkings of our biggest tunes” (and let’s ...

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Making the perfect work/study/chill playlist is the finest of arts, which is why, TBH, I've largely stopped trying. Don't get me wrong — I still have a "what I'm listening to now" playlist, a generic ...

The “Juna” singer hit viral status in 2017 with her song “Pretty Girl” and was recently nominated for her first Grammy for ...

Dion Lewis was trying to make the best out of a difficult situation. Last August, when a storm left his Chicago neighborhood without electricity for a week, he improvised. Lewis had recently created a ...

A display of ego from Wolfhard, though, is scarcely egotistical at all. He’s much too nice to be a narcissist. Happy Birthday humbly ambles along, telling stories rooted to his personal neuroses at ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. I love the music scene so much, I wrote a novel about it. This summer, free and pop-up shows brought me back to my roots Liz Riggs is the ...