There’s a hollow space surrounding the guitar solo on “Shiver,” an absorbent deep cut on the second studio album from British indie-pop darling Rachel Chinouriri. The production is both distant and overwhelming as it mirror the 27-year-old’s inner turmoil. She’s feeling alone again, haunted by memories, and it’s like her words are vanishing into thin air before reaching anyone who will listen. Still, she sings, “Life goes on, and on, and on.” But what does she want that life to look like?
Chinouriri realizes she needs to make some changes on I Think I Spoke Too Soon. It’s reflected in the BPM spike across the record, a bold shift from her debut, 2024’s What a Devastating Turn of Events. She spends most of the album physically on the dance floor — sometimes…
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The extended edition adds 4 previously unreleased tracks to the original 11-song 2025 tracklist.
The well-decorated Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, with only three albums to his name, makes a bold move to control his artistic direction while providing a home for the next generation of artists on his Red Zero Records. The native son of Clarksdale, MS, still in his mid-twenties, is a global star who has quickly moved past ‘the next big thing” to become arguably the foremost blues artist today, blending tradition with contemporary. He is an ‘old soul” who knows where the music came from, with the ability to reshape it and attract a younger audience.
Hard Road, executively co-produced by Kingfish and Ric Whitney, has three producers in…
Illustrious Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava, a longtime force on the European jazz scene, returns with his Fearless Five ensemble, welcoming guest saxophonist Joe Lovano, a powerhouse improviser who had collaborated with the bandleader on the live recording Roma (2019). All members of the quintet contribute compositions, trusting the bandleader’s candidly investigative approach that opposes rigid perceptions.
Rava’s “Certi Angoli Segreti”, an exceptionally beautiful tune first recorded in 1998, gracefully materializes with beautiful color shades. Francesco Diodati’s guitar gives it a particular touch, later soloing with motivic ability and acerbic distortion; Francesco Ponticelli’s dynamic bass builds a solid foundation with drummer…
Flatlands is a new John Zorn project for rock power trio, in the tradition of Simulacrum, Naked City and Insurrection: twelve short pieces that turn on a dime, built on infectious riffs, atonal melodies, shifting rhythms and virtuoso solos, intense, quirky and ecstatic.
The trio is made of three of Zorn’s closest collaborators of recent years: Matt Hollenberg (Shardik, Secret Chiefs 3) on electric guitar, Simon Hanes (Gargantua, Tredici Bacci, Tsons of Tsunami) on electric bass and Ches Smith (Clone Row, We All Break, Laugh Ash) on drums.
Titles include ’69-68′, ‘Into the Dreamverse’, ‘Mabinogion’, ‘Priapus’, ‘Erotic Hyperbola’, ‘Almas Perdidas’, ‘The Blue Circle’, ‘Slipped Disk’ and ‘Greywacke’.
In 1988, The House of Love’s debut album arrived as a fully-formed piece of pop perfection, following two years of intensive writing, rehearsing and live performances. The Gift explores those two years, as the band leapt from the Camberwell squat scene into the centre of the UK’s indie world as it went overground.
Taken from the archive of bassist Chris Groothuizen and compiled by him with chief songwriter Guy Chadwick’s full approval, this 3CD set offers unprecedented insight into the development of one of the standout bands of the late ’80s British music scene. Featuring previously unheard rehearsal recordings and live shows captured in London and Paris, all of which has been carefully restored and remastered using…
…This release serves as a direct alternative to the controversial 2022 reissue, which was completely remixed by producer Chris Lord-Alge. According to the band, while the 2022 edition was a modern re-interpretation, it suffered from incorrect tape speeds. In contrast, the 2026 version is a true remaster sourced directly from the original studio tapes. It is designed to preserve the raw, urgent punk aesthetic and the “barely-contained chaos” of the original mix, while providing cleaner sound clarity across its 14 standard tracks.
A hyper-speed blast of ultra-polemical, left-wing hardcore punk, and bitingly funny sarcasm, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables stands as the Dead Kennedys’ signature statement. As one of the first hardcore albums, it was a galvanizing…
@ (pronounced “at”) is the art-folk project of Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist songwriters Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak. The band release their new album Autosmile, their second full-length record and first release with 4AD.
Across Autosmile’s 11 songs, @ reimagine the psychedelic folk tradition as an undeniably contemporary art form, carefully balancing beauty and pain and shifting between black hole heaviness and patient understanding.
Autosmile follows @’s 2021 debut album Mind Palace Music — displaying the duo’s penchant for confessional lyrics and affinity for blending digital and analog elements, the album was an organic success story via word…
What hits first about Manchester Orchestra’s debut, I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, is how fully formed it already sounds. Recorded independently and driven by instinct, it captures the push and pull between Southern gospel tones, fuzzed-out guitars and the emotional candour that would come to define the band. From the swell of Wolves at Night to the fragile calm of Sleeper 1972, the record moves between hush and full-volume release with real purpose. Andy Hull writes with striking honesty, taking on spirituality, romance, identity and mortality with the urgency of someone living every word. For its 20th anniversary, Manchester Orchestra revisit I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child in a deluxe reissue with all-new packaging, plus a full second disc of reimagined versions.
Doo Wop in the Dark brings together a unique mix of Lou Reed‘s own compositions, spanning his career from the Velvet Underground onwards, along with Chris’s own songs. Together it details the creative and often turbulent path of Reed’s life, from his teenage years through to his death in 2013.
The album echoes his critically acclaimed 2022 release honoring Nico, Eulogy To Christa. In fact, the idea for this album began then, with the track Union Square West.
This is Chris, on why he wanted to make this album: For me, and many others, Lou Reed is one of the holy trinity of Bowie, Iggy, Reed. Mythologised by us, in our minds, each of these tempestuous spirits brought…
It’s hard to believe that, at this late stage, with dozens of Jimi Hendrix live discs available, there is anything decent left to discover. But Magic Boy-The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Berkeley (Experience Hendrix label) proves that’s not the case.
It’s odd that this “first set” appears now, especially since the second of two shows recorded at California’s Berkeley Community Center was released in 2003. There is no explanation of the two decade gap, but it’s clear that has nothing to do with the audio or performance quality.
These gigs, from Memorial Day 1970 (just three months before his passing in September) at the relatively intimate venue (only 3300 seats), were unusual because Hendrix generally played far larger stages. Riots broke out before…
Dave Alvin, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, author, has touched so many forms of American music that it can be daunting to peg one’s favorite part of his career. Even today, with his psychedelic jam band The Third Mind, he is exploring jazz and early ’60s folk music. Yet the pure Americana audience likely gravitates to his mid-’90s period, when he released two straightforward acoustic folk albums and a third that was close to the same. The first, King of California (1994), a mix of covers and originals, shocked many who had long since labeled Alvin a ferocious rocker.
Four years later came Blackjack David, arguably when Alvin really found his vocal and songwriting chops. In 2000, he won a Grammy for traditional folk songs, Public Domain…
With a gap of 16 years between their first two records, it seems like The Avalanches have almost become prolific these days. Now expanded to a trio (new member Andy Szekeres joined Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi earlier this year), the group’s fourth album, No Bad Memories, follows a mere six years after We Will Always Love You was released at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
At first glance, it seems like No Bad Memories could be quite an intimidating prospect. There are no fewer than 31 tracks on the record, framed around a loose concept exploring nostalgia, childhood imagery, and the hypnotic power of modern advertising. However, ultimately it’s what you’d expect from an Avalanches record – meticulously crafted production, full of samples…
It’s hard to believe that Minneapolis-based blues-roots artist Charlie Parr has now released 20 albums. Parr has risen from a regional treasure influenced by Minneapolis blues greats Dave Ray, “Spider” John Koerner, and Willie Murphy to national and international status, buoyed by his signing to Smithsonian Folkways, one of the most selective imprints, six years ago.
First hailed for his blues-roots fingerpicking guitar, Parr has long since become a fully fledged troubadour with a world-weary voice, a champion of the downtrodden, perhaps best realized on this new folk opera, Rooming House. Parr plays his custom nine-string resonator guitar alongside drummer Dave King (from the recently disbanded The Bad Plus).
It doesn’t seem two years since the last Richard Thompson album – but the man who flew furthest from Fairport Convention while Sandy Denny sadly fell to earth, still turns out quality fare. And this is his best for some while.
He’s still working his way through a Covid backlog of songs and, having then invested in a home studio, now supplies detailed demos to his band, the core of which remains bassist Taras Prodaniuk and drummer Michael Jerome. Engineer James Frazee, who’s worked with Thompson’s son Teddy, earns a co-production credit, though whether this heralds a lengthy Mitchell Froom-like partnership remains to be seen.
A brass section is employed at intervals, evoking memories of I Want to See the Bright…
The sound of a band expanding their universe – growing bigger and bolder with each record – never loses its thrill. Upon their arrival in 2017, in an era when guitar music was regularly declared to be in terminal decline, Fontaines D.C. powered on through, painting in primary colours and frontman Grian Chatten’s vivid poetry. If their first three albums, culminating in 2022’s Skínty Fía, seemed intent on rebooting indie rock, it made 2024’s Romance and their abrupt pivot into electronics all the more surprising – not least because the band also underwent a sudden 1990s visual makeover of floppy hairdos and rave colours.
It’s worth remembering that, for the members of Fontaines D.C., that decade is as distant as the 1960s were to Oasis and Blur. And so, in…
Matador Records continue its reissue series documenting key catalog titles by the iconic Texas band, The Butthole Surfers. This latest tranche brings remastered audio for piouhgd and Humpty Dumpty LSD to streaming services with vinyl to follow December 11.
piouhgd (say it “P.O.’ed.”) is the Surfers’ fifth album and was originally released in 1991. It catches the band in a moment of transition – moving from underground freakshow to unlikely “120 Minutes” mainstays. Face-melting guitars abound, as do references to comedian Gary Shandling. A cover of Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” is demented but tuneful.
Originally released in 2002, Humpty Dumpty LSD compiles odds and ends from…
The second chapter in Gong’s legendary Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, Angel’s Egg takes the story deeper into the surreal, otherworldly universe first introduced on Flying Teapot. Originally released in 1973, the album follows the continuing adventures of Zero the Hero and the Pot Head Pixies, expanding Daevid Allen’s visionary mythology into an even more ambitious world of flying teapots, cosmic transmissions, spiritual awakening, and playful rebellion.
Musically, Angel’s Egg pushes Gong’s unique fusion of psychedelic rock, progressive experimentation, jazz improvisation, and anarchic humour into new territory. With its hypnotic grooves, swirling synthesizers, gliding guitars, saxophone excursions, and eccentric vocal…
Remastered from the original BYG Records tapes and cut for the first time ever at half-speed at the UK’s world-famous Stardelta Studios by Grammy Award–winning mastering engineer Lewis Hopkin, this exclusive RSD 2026 edition features a deluxe gatefold sleeve, archival artwork, and a 16-page booklet exploring the storytelling and mythology of the beloved Radio Gnome Invisible saga. Released under BYG Records – the original label that recorded the album before licensing it to Virgin – this definitive deluxe reissue delivers the best sound quality Flying Teapot has ever had: a true cosmic upgrade for Gong’s mind-bending masterpiece.
Originally unleashed in 1973, Flying Teapot kicked off the eccentric Radio Gnome…