New Album From Melvins and Napalm Death
The new album from Melvins and Napalm Death shares its name with the bands’ Savage Imperial Death March tours from 2016 and 2025, but marks their first full-length studio collaboration under the moniker. The album was recorded at the Melvins’ Los Angeles studio, with Buzz Osborne (vocals/guitar) and Dale Crover (drums) joined by Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway (vocals), Shane Embury (bass), and John Cooke (guitar). “I […]
Black Nile Is Slow-Burning Greatness, Writes Under The Radar
Under The Radar has Black Nile‘s video for “Danielle,” which is one of the standout tracks on their new album Indigo Garden. The site writes, “‘Danielle’ is a sprawling, slow-burning number, shaded by a recurring sax line. The first leg leans into a smoky lounge noir feel, but the track transitions between moods effortlessly, guided by nimble drumming, […]
KCSU Hypes Charm School
On their new EP Schadenfreude Ploy, writes KCSU, Charm School presents a “gritty, bold take on the no-wave genre. In their newest album, named after the concept of finding joy in another’s misfortune, Charm School combines discordant saxophones, rolling drums, and steady expressive guitars… chaotic in the best way, with expressive vocals punctuated by sharp saxophone phrases.” The Fort Collins-based […]
New Album From Black Nile
For Black Nile, jazz isn’t a musical genre as much as it is a language. A Black American form of communication that bridges music, visual art, and performance. An improvisational mindset that fits into nearly any genre derived from the Black experience. Brothers Aaron and Lawrence Shaw see a very different Los Angeles. Hollywood has stolen the beautiful […]
Mxdwn Shares The Details Of Inara George’s New LP
Mxdwn has some words from Inara George about her new LP, Songs of Douglass & Littell, which is at radio now from Release Me Records. “I think the idea of making this album sprung from me just wanting to create something soothing. Lately, that is the kind of music I want to listen to,” she says. “The world seems so […]
Americana UK Shares Fruit Bats’ Video For “The Landfill”
Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson recently explained the video for “The Landfill,” the lead single from his upcoming album of the same name, to Americana UK. “This is my sixth video with the great Adam Willis, AKA Brother Willis. Another in our long line of collabs, which are often funny with cold opens and strange characters plumbing the […]
New Noise Announces New Issue With Melvins and Napalm Death Flexi
“I’ve never done something quite like this—it’s new,” Buzz Osborne recently told New Noise Magazine, which is featuring the new collaboration between Osborne’s Melvins and Napalm Death. The next issue of the magazine will not only feature Savage Imperial Death March on the cover, it will also come with an exclusive flexi-disc with a remix of the album track “Some Other Kind […]
Heavenly Is On Brooklyn Vegan’s Best Of List For 2026’s First Quarter
The classic indie pop band Heavenly is back with their first album in 30 years, and Brooklyn Vegan’s Indie Basement says it’s one of the best records of the year so far. “Highway to Heavenly is as lively and pointed as their ’90s material, standing confidently beside their previous albums while feeling neither like a manufactured antique nor a “hello, fellow […]
Inara George Goes On Stereo Embers
“It’s hard to think of a more beautiful voice than that of Inara George,” writes Alex Green of the Stereo Embers Podcast. “Filled with elegance and finesse…, she’s got this subtle power that glides through each composition with subtlety, nuance and harmonic sophistication and grace. George’s body of work, from her time in the Bird and the Bee, the Living Sisters, and Merrick to […]
KLOF Previews Fruit Bats’ Upcoming LP
KLOF Magazine is previewing Fruit Bats’ upcoming album The Landfill, sharing the titular advance single and giving the story behind the record. The site explains, “The experience of making [the 2025 LP] Baby Man — with its stream-of-consciousness writing and near-immediate captures — unlocked something in Eric D. Johnson’s process. Within weeks of completing that solo album, he took the band […]
WNRN Hosts Rose’s Pawn Shop
Rose’s Pawn Shop stopped by Charlottesville’s WNRN for a live set and interview with the station’s Bob Mosolgo. They sounded great as they tore through “Darken My Door” and “American Seams,” from their new album American Seams, and did a throwback to “The Arsonist,” a song from their first LP. Check that session out here. American Seams is on the NACC Folk chart! […]
Glide Enjoys The “Mesmerizing” New Inara George LP
Glide Mag says,”On her fifth studio LP, Inara George flips through the thirty-year-old songbook of her close friends Eliot Douglass and Philip Littell to put together a minimalistic, jazzy vocal outing. Songs of Douglass & Littell is a mesmerizing nine-song outing from a seasoned musician, connecting with music from years ago and bringing it into the present via lavender-tinted, soft pianos. ‘Undreamy Dreams’ closes […]
When You Motor Away Celebrates Heavenly’s Return
“There is much that is amazing, even magical in the album,” When You Motor Away writes about Heavenly‘s new LP. “Instead of a nostalgia trip or a tentative venture to shake of the rust, Highway to Heavenly is manifestly of a band hitting full stride as if several album into a career on a sharp ascent. The performances are energetic […]
Americana UK Hails The Hooks and Tight Sounds Of Rose’s Pawn Shop
Americana UK has a review of Rose’s Pawn Shop‘s American Seams, their fifth studio album. “American Seams,” they write, “is their Californian quilt of sound, a ten-track patchwork of country, rock, folk, and bluegrass, with a golden ratio of banjo and fiddle… a sound high on hooks and as tight as the seams of your favourite jeans.” Read the […]
NPR Highlights Souled American’s “Freeing Wheels”
NPR Music’s All Songs Considered included Souled American‘s “Freeing Wheels” on its set of the week’s best songs last week, including it on a set with tracks by Bon Iver, Tori Amos, and others. Check that out here. The song is an advance single from Sanctions, due April 17, which is the first album from the seminal alt-country pioneers since […]
Crate Digs The Weird Chemistry of Louder Than You Think
The soundtrack to Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary Young and Pavement Crate Records‘ Pick of the Week on February 9. “More than a side note to the story of Pavement,” the site writes, “this compilation captures the strange, raw orbit around Gary Young — basement recordings, tape-soaked experiments, and the beautifully unstable energy that helped define […]
New Music From Fruit Bats
The midwest, particularly the part of the midwest from which Eric D. Johnson hails, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape, hill after hill, built from the […]
LA Times Features Inara George, Who’ll Take The Songs of Douglass And Littell On Tour Soon
Inara George, writes the Los Angeles Times, has “an exquisite new album, Songs of Douglass & Littell, on which she sets aside her own songwriting to interpret nine tunes by [two] under-the-radar veterans of West Coast musical theater: searching, funny, vividly emotional songs… Think of the record as George’s take on one of Ella Fitzgerald’s classic Song Book LPs from […]
Rose’s Pawn Shop Starts Tour
Rose’s Pawn Shop is at radio now with American Seams, their fifth studio album. Country Music News International says the band is “a definitive voice in American roots music.” Americana Highways says their “music explores endurance, reinvention, & determination to chase dreams & reach higher. Their songs are open-road odes to escape, possibilities, & breaking free.” Twangville says the album is […]
Louder Than War Celebrates Heavenly’s Originality And Depth
According to Louder Than War, “It could be said that bands like The Cardigans and Belle and Sebastian took elements of and inspiration from Heavenly and their ilk and made it a commercial success – but, decent as they are, they never matched them in terms of originality, depth, zeal and idealism.” Now Heavenly is back with new album Highway To Heavenly, which […]
