When we last caught up with Maraudeur, they'd just dropped  Puissance 4 , a jagged, kitchen-sink post-punk record that proved the Swiss-French group had no interest in playing it straight. Three years later, they're back with its follow-up Flaschenträger  (Feel It Records), a live-wired batch of tunes tracked in a Geneva basement and played with the precision that still goes against the current. What started as a solo 4-track experiment has morphed into a six-piece collective

Direct from Portland, Cruise Control have been making waves this year with both a new record on the Curation camp (Uni Boys, Beachwood Sparks) and recent tour stops alongside Mod Lang and Thee Sharp Pins. On their latest LP  Time Is An Angel , the quartet of Izzy Dupuis (guitar, vox), Lee Butterfield (guitar, vox), Tim Kam (bass, vox), and Penny Olives (drums) channel golden-hour country jangle that's equal parts charm, hard-driving energy, and melodic pop rock 'n' roll intui

Tokyo punk veteran Fink has always held fast to the raw, blown-out blitz that made his earlier groups (Teengenerate, Firestarter,...

Josephine Network has carved out her own wild corner of New York rock 'n' roll, a space where hook-filled glam drama, fuzz-drenched...

So you've heard the news that it's a mod mod world, but have you heard it's also the year of Sharp Pins? The latest pop sensations direct...

On her third album  Arrow of Love , Hectorine's Sarah Gagnon re-emerges with what feels like a triumphant return while pushing pop...

From the candlelit shadows of their 2019 demo cassette to the haunted pop reveries of 2022's debut LP Ghost Stories , New York City's...

Peter Cimbalo may be best known right now as the pounding heartbeat behind Thee Sharp Pins live trio, one of America's latest pop rock...

Baltimore's own outliers Linda Smith and The Smashing Times crash together on a brand-new split 7" from London's Upset The Rhythm. Two...

After cooking up Flour —his long-awaited second LP that slow-baked over several years in makeshift Brooklyn practice spaces—Nat Brower is...

Across their debut album  Last Laugh   (DIG! Records), Melbourne's Loose Lips waste no time delivering ten tracks of late-night,...

Spanning a few years, a few labels, and the humble confines of shared apartments and a cracked iPhone, Dummy's early EPs captured the...