Albums Of The Week: Beach Rats | Rat Beat

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Asbury Park is the reason. The languid beach community in New Jersey has long been a port-of-call for many a disaffected musician — from Bruce...

Albums Of The Week: A Giant Dog | Fight + Bone Reissues

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Just in time for the beloved Austin band’s summer tour dates, Merge Records has reissued A Giant Dog’s first two full-lengths — 2012’s Fight and...

Albums Of The Week: Pretty Lightning | Dust Moves

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Dust Moves is the new album from Saarbrücken, Germany duo Pretty Lightning. Since forming over a decade ago, the band are now on their fifth...

Albums Of The Week: Sons Of Adam | Saturday’s Sons: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Saturday’s Sons: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 is the first-ever comprehensive anthology of legendary 1960s L.A. band Sons Of Adam. Led by visionary guitarist Randy Holden (Blue Cheer,...

Albums Of The Week: Dune Rats | Real Rare Whale

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Real Rare Whale is Dune Rats’ fourth long player and was recorded with acclaimed producer Scott Horscroft. The Australian band relocated to Eden on the south...

Albums Of The Week: Throwaway | Hand That Takes

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Behold, a woman with a paper bag on her head. From the paper bag comes shrieking and yelling, things like "HEY! Motherfucker wouldn't ya know...

Albums Of The Week: Whiskey Myers | Tornillo

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For genre-bending band Whiskey Myers, 2019's self-titled and self-produced album offered a watershed moment. The album sold 41,000 copies in its first week, debuted atop both...

Albums Of The Week: Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts | Mission

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “After the release of the debut Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts album in 2019, it was clear that a sophomore album would at some point...

Albums Of The Week: Wombo | Fairy Rust

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Fairy Rust, the new album from Wombo — Sydney Chadwick, Cameron Lowe and Joel Taylor —  contemplates the spaces in-between, a meeting of the physicality...

Albums Of The Week: Murder By Death | Spell/Bound

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Some bands build catalogs over the years. Murder By Death have built a universe. Over more than two decades together, the Louisville band have released...

Albums Of The Week: of Montreal | Freewave Lucifer fck

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “When creators f<ck with how we experience time and space, great fictions emerge: Clive Barker’s Imajica, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi classic Solaris, and Godard’s Alphaville. But...

Albums Of The Week: Unwritten Law | The Hum

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “SoCal punk pillars Unwritten Law return with a vengeance on this their first studio album of original material in over 10 years! Still led by founding...

Albums Of The Week: Little Feat | Waiting For Columbus Super Deluxe Edition

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It’s fitting that Little Feat is on the road this summer as the group celebrates the upcoming 45th anniversary deluxe edition of Waiting For Columbus,...

Albums Of The Week: The Sparklers | Miss Philadelphia

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Formed at the turn of the century in the taverns and dive bars of their beloved city, The Sparklers are a loud, melodic trio from...

Albums Of The Week: Amanda Shires | Take It Like A Man

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Grammy and Americana-award-winning singer-songwriter and virtuoso violinist Amanda Shires has pushed the reset button, releasing an album that is so unlike anything she has ever...

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