The Melbourne quintet’s first new track in four years stretches past six minutes and features Stella Donnelly on backing vocals. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have broken a four-year recording silence with “Sunburned in London,” released today through I Oh You. It’s the Melbourne quintet’s first new music since their third album Endless Rooms arrived to widespread acclaim in 2022. The track stretches past six minutes, giving guitarists Fran Keaney, Tom Russo, and Joe White room to build the kind of interlocking textures […]

The John Congleton-produced follow-up to their acclaimed 2024 debut arrives April 24 via ATO Records Something Worth Waiting For by FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For by Friko Chicago’s Friko are following up one of 2024’s most acclaimed indie rock debuts with Something Worth Waiting For, their second album, due April 24 via ATO Records. The announcement arrives alongside lead single “Seven Degrees,” a propulsive anthem about connection born from frontman Niko Kapetan’s endearing misunderstanding of an idiom. “For a long time I […]

Metric have announced Romanticize the Dive, their tenth studio album, due April 24 via Thirty Tigers. Alongside the announcement, the band shared lead single “Victim of Luck” and its accompanying music video. Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars have also revealed the “All the Feelings” North American summer tour, which kicks off in Austin at Moody Amphitheater on June 8. “Victim of Luck” serves as a mission statement for the record. Emily Haines traces the band back to their earliest days, […]

Remember The Humans by Broken Social SceneRemember The Humans by Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene are back. The Toronto collective have announced Remember the Humans, their first studio album in nearly a decade, due May 8 via Arts & Crafts. Alongside the album news, the band shared lead single “Not Around Anymore” and revealed the “All the Feelings” North American summer tour with Metric and Stars — kicking off right here in Austin at Moody Amphitheater on June 8. The […]

Sleep Paralysis by Ken ParkSleep Paralysis by Ken Park Liam Creamer started these songs at 17 in San Diego, recording on an iPhone, and finished them after a cross country move to Brooklyn. You can feel that distance in the music. This isn’t someone experimenting. It sounds like someone who made a decision and followed through. What grabbed me wasn’t the story, though—it was how fast the EP locked in. “Maybe Delete” drops you straight into a wall of fuzz, […]

Metric have announced Romanticize the Dive, their tenth studio album, due April 24 via Thirty Tigers. Alongside the announcement, the band shared lead single “Victim of Luck” and its accompanying music video. Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars have also revealed the “All the Feelings” North American summer tour, which kicks off in Austin at Moody Amphitheater on June 8. “Victim of Luck” serves as a mission statement for the record. Emily Haines traces the band back to their earliest days, […]

Chicago indie rock heroes deliver their sixth and best album Chicago’s Ratboys have released their highly anticipated sixth album Singin’ to an Empty Chair today via New West Records. The album has already garnered critical acclaim, with Pitchfork calling it “their sixth and best album… These songs have the clarified rush of an emotional pressure change.” Produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie), the album showcases Ratboys at their most refined—tracking live with what Walla dubbed “photographic realism,” capturing the band in a room […]

The Austin indie-pop institution returns with Dreamers in Exile, their first new album since 2007, on February 27 via Cult Hero Records Dreamers in Exile by VoxtrotDreamers in Exile by Voxtrot Voxtrot are back, and it still feels surreal to type that sentence. The Austin indie-pop band that soundtracked a generation of MP3 blogs has shared the video for “My Peace,” the latest single from Dreamers in Exile—their first album in 18 years, due February 27 on the band’s own Cult Hero […]