With a pulsating beat & squelch of synth, Setting's latest creeps among dark entrails of sound, feeling like it might be just as comfortable combing through John Carpenter cutout footage. Bursts of noise batter into greased grooves, rattling around like a fever dream of funk & fusion bit.ly/4csUkKO

Laced with flutes & streaked with the Autumn glow of Cullum’s pedal steel, the song has the kind of cable knit comforts & indelible ennui of a classic Nick Drake tune. Smoke curled and bundled, the new song feels like just what’s needed to fend off the lingering damp of winter’s grasp bit.ly/3N3r6Yv

The new record is rife with hooks, but not averse to tension and torsion, scratching at the listener with a splintered soul before soothing them with just a taste of those power pop charms. The band remains criminally underrated. They’re pop purveyors outpacing many of their peers. bit.ly/4uglQBR

The new single from SUSS reverberates around the headspace, warm and woolen, but also soaked in a melancholy that tugs at the seams of the soul. The record is rooted in memory, time, and the erosion of what little we’re given. The first peek is dipped in the weight of this sentiment. bit.ly/4su9PXL

Upupayāma is back at Fuzz Club, turning the torrents into torn and frayed freakouts pummeled by rhythm and slashed by searing guitar. Alessio Ferarri has been flaying the mind since his days at Centripetal Force, and with each new record he only deepens the burn. bit.ly/4d0IO9J

Darkness threads through Suitor's new single, punctuated by quick slices of guitar that puncture the inky aura, searching for soft purchase. Picking up the reigns left by Siouxie, the band feels like they’d be easy company for newer releases from The New Eves, RVG, or Horsegirl. bit.ly/4uqCDlR

With her latest single, Haylie Davis announces a debut album for Fire Records. "Wandering Star" tiptoes in on piano and Davis’ resonant voice; echoes of Ronstadt and Carole King hung fragrant on the air. The song builds, a sweetly simple elegy, bruised, but buoyant. bit.ly/4b1lOoi

On the eve of her sixth album, a collection of songs streaked with vulnerability and personal growth, @charlottecornfield.bsky.social goes deep on a personal favorite from the past. Read as she explores Panoramic & True's overlooked debut album from 2010. @mergerecords.bsky.social bit.ly/4rLjrNA

Lupo Città crashes the gates with an acerbic growl. First single “Can’t See” churns uneasy waters, riding frothy riffs and an ironclad beat. The band whispers from the shadows, circling the listener in tightening paces until the song seethes towards its final moments. bit.ly/4rMCxTK

Mac Cornish recasts “Trucker’s Cafe” in a slightly more raucous light than the original version put out by Ian & Sylvia. With high sheen twang, you can practically hear this one on the jukebox as bottles clank, shouts ring, and smoke curls around the grease clouds from the kitchen. bit.ly/3OBvwqf

Featuring members of The Essex Green, with ties to fellow psych-pop outfits Guppyboy & The Ladybug Transistor, The Sixth Great Lake lightly loops the seams between folk, indie pop, & a grassy canyon country. Flutes flutter under easy strums, the band harmonizes in hammock-swung tempos bit.ly/4rMlEIQ

A b-side from Cochemea, recorded along with the Ancestros Futuros sessions, but left off the final version of the album. A rhythmic wonder, the cut is built on everything that makes Gastelum’s work vital, from the woven tapestry of percussion to Cochemea’s searing sax. bit.ly/4rKcdtj

RSTB faves Beefheart & McQuinn announce their much anticipated debut LP. First single “Do It Again” pairs a chugging blues to their breezy folk, feeling like Paul Simon ditched Art G for JJ Cale and set simmer against Spring breeze for an earworm that latches tight. bit.ly/3Nd3d0P

Following the jumped-up power pop of the first single, the band lays back a touch into the grove of grooves for this one. Letting Carson McHone take the reigns, “Cardinal Star” cools the band’s usual burn, trading some back and forth between her verses and Romano’s comedown choruses. bit.ly/4tYIdvj

Josephine’s long been the queen of NYC power pop and if you’ve got notions otherwise, any doubts ought to drip away with the release of “Hooked.” It’s a towering single that bites into the stagelight shimmer of the ’70s. This is as hi-fi and humming as the Network has sounded yet! bit.ly/4l093iA

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The Early envision improvisation as collaboration, a push & pull; leaderless but never rudderless. The pair play off each other with a 6th sense, a feeling that they’ve been through shadows of their works before, but are always ready to pull the shades & shine light on new direction bit.ly/471aLud

NC's Object Hours, a new trio feat members of Solar Halos, Work Clothes, & Les Savy Fav, announce their debut. The band pairs pulsing drums with a double guitar vortex. “Yellow House” locks into the band’s heady hypnotism, a cocoon of rhythm and reverberation that’s hard to shake. bit.ly/4tW3hme

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Dog Chocolate come roaring back with a new album of crushed glass riffs & post-punk pop rocks that hit the listener like tin on fillings. “Fun Is Always Brilliant” is a rumpled, rankled smack in the windpipe paired with a video that rifles through the thrift store shelf of the mind. bit.ly/4beo5wT

Another smooth as silk single from Chet Sounds swings into ‘70s AOR territory, finding common ground with Winter McQuinn & Hot Apple Band. Though, Chet might be the one to slide furthest into AM radio territory, taking an admitted love of James Taylor & Carole King to its logical ends bit.ly/3ZSBYvp

“Tribute To The Angels” twists Appalachian Folk into barbed knots of fiddle & guitar. The band’s new album explores the displacement of communities along the Savannah River Site near their South Carolina home. The elegies here dig back up what would rather stay buried along the banks bit.ly/4s8OGCc

Magus plumbs the well of medieval folk & prog for an LP that’s drenched in gothic drama. “Exodus,” gallops out the gate, an ornate tapestry streaked in soot, blood, & bile. Keys curdle the air, guitars smoke in acrid plumes, as Greg & Jessica unravel tales like bards wounded in battle bit.ly/477OSJE

Davis' new single feat Tim Heidecker & Madison Cunningham, helping turn Davis’ bittersweet country charmer into one of the best songs of the year. Saturated steel & her ethereal harp ensconce the three-part harmonies, soaring through the speakers like the first breath of Spring. bit.ly/4kTGxyX

Abronia pushes to new heights, winding through furrowed wastelands, divining water in wooded groves, flying on flutes, sax, steel, & the constant dogging of drums. They follow in the forms of Heron Oblivion, Espers, & Fairport before them, finding the fusion fields between folk & rock bit.ly/4qXX6Lv

“Magouilleux” has a bit more prog in its bones than Population II's had in the past, though they’ve always hinted at it. The track pulses into view on synths and strums, permeated with fragrant atmospheres. As the cut cures, it grows darker, scratched by serrated talons of guitar. bit.ly/3MWjmaR

Just what a Monday called for, another little look into the new King Tuff! “Invisible Ink” brings the pop crunch to the forefront, squinting through the sequins and dipping the track in a topcoat of glam. bit.ly/4b64bVJ

Triptides cooled their ‘60s swirl for the lacquered leather of the ‘70s, & they continue to carve into the post-paisley years on "Another Age." With an Apple Records stateliness, the cut comes in crisp, feeling un-fussed on a bed of piano & just a quick dose of quiver in the chorus bit.ly/40pAlW1

With Jon ‘Catfish’ Delorme on pedal steel, “Roadside Traveler Blues” brings the road to life, a white line blur of country-curdled blues that dips over the horizon with the kind of ease that only Frank can rustle up. bit.ly/4avPYRP

The Kitchenettes fashion their debut 7" with a simple pop sensibility reminiscent of Marine Girls, Cat's Miaow, & Tiger Trap. "Sunday Best" wraps around the listener like a hand-knitted scarf; offering cozy comforts that stay with you long after the last strains dissipate from the air bit.ly/46QIBSB

Mod Lang skips the ’90s revival line and heads straight back to the source for a pitch perfect record of power pop. This one slides on the shelf nicely next to newcomers like Uni Boys & The Lemon Twigs, but bury it deep in the bin and it’ll definitely fool a few crate diggers as well bit.ly/4rpuewP

Visible Cloaks return for their third album, a haunting hall of mirrors that shuttles the listener into gently layered terrariums of sound. Each song, an environment, a world within their work that tugs between the cellular and the cosmic. First single, “Disque” feat Motion Graphics bit.ly/3ZLKw75

Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer connect for an album, forged as a series of requiems for the children of Gaza. Inspired by the collaboration of John Cale and Terry Riley, “Urn Burial” rises from the ash, a charred, sinewy instrumental that’s layered in the anger of injustice. bit.ly/4rYjCVy

A new video from West Coast multi-instrumentalist Aaron Shaw arrives today. “Heart Of A Phoenix” embraces the core of the album, a return from the weight of his condition, a soaring soul-jazz odyssey that pushes slowly from its early simmer to the sear of its second half. bit.ly/4tLemX7

Gangloff & Sheppard are no strangers to slipping through the ley lines of Academic Appalachia, and here, they toe the lines between pastoral, classical, folk, and drone. A record that subverts traditions and roots for truths beneath the overgrowth of Americana. bit.ly/4arsfSQ

With knods to the Kleenex/Lilliput axis, Raincoats & Swell Maps tossed in for good measure, Magasin's debut doesn’t tread lightly. Blustering into view on a tangle of barbed guitars, “Malentendido” chafes atop wobbled bass until Cantoni’s vocals come to soothe & scold in equal doses. bit.ly/4rZEprX

Conrad constructs a labyrinth of laments, leading the listener through on winds of psychedelic strum. Lyke Rayne seems to suffer no desire for daylight, wandering in its woe, savoring its own sadness. The album sits on the chest, breathing slow, velvet sighs along with the listener. bit.ly/4tySRsq

Sloome waste no time hurtling out of the gate with a fizzing new single. The band, with members of Paper Space & Welcome Strawberry, smears propulsive indie with a good dose of purple shadows from the shoegaze bin. bit.ly/4kFYwsP

The latest single finds Dehan with a tender tone, turning down the twang for something heartfelt and humble. First single, “By Sunday” is a pensive rumination on relationships; a rumpled, bittersweet mediation on the small moments and little things that are worth holding onto. bit.ly/4kIjuau

Pairing patient, methodical strums with Donnelly’s crystalline voice, the first single from Tanya Donnelly and Chris Brokaw's upcoming EP re-imagines the renaissance refracted through Galaxie 500’s hush, a meditative pairing that brings the spiritual to slowcore. bit.ly/4aUaRpP

Wrapped in the woodsy folk of Fairport, Trees, & Pentangle, “Of The Birds” adorns itself with the trappings of classic psych-folk and Anglican rock. The song swirls in tide pools of soft anguish before lighting a fire in the amps, rolling the cut in the grist of Crazy Horse hues. bit.ly/4bTNZYB

A convergence of Dutch underground players brings together members of Fleur, MOOON, Frankie’s Strange Machine, and The Hook for an earnest take on '70s power pop. Their debut single tips from Milk n' Cookies to The Twinkeyz, hung on strums, synth, and hummable hooks. bit.ly/4aO98lQ

In conjunction with their new album, out today on @daptonerecords.bsky.social, The Olympians' Toby Pazner dives deep into an often overlooked piece of the Sly Stone catalog for the Hidden Gems series. bit.ly/4kG7N4a

The February edition of Crawl Out From The Fallout includes new singles from GUV, Natural Magic, Wet Tuna, King Tuff, Uni Boys, Haylie Davis, Spencer Cullum, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Hannah Lew, and more! If you missed the show, check out the archive over at WGXC. bit.ly/3MxNBoa

Gun Outfit decamped to an 80-acre ranch in Pine Flat, CA, absorbing Wildfire Smoke to record an album as sprawling as the surroundings. The ghosts of Americana still haunt “Unfelt Loss," but there’s a lightness to the track; a lilt that lifts the strums and softly cooed vocals. bit.ly/4tDF5oE

Chet Sounds returns with a new album for Third Eye Stimuli. The scuffed solo moniker finds Tucker suturing bedroom beats to quicksilver '70s soul, but this time the blanket of fog pulls back just a touch.The lush arrangements are built bigger than his bedroom walls might let on. bit.ly/4rKKqbEChet

Hooked in & humming, Wet Tuna escorts the listener through six levels of the Astral Plane, barrel rolling through rubberized R&B, marinated psychedelics, & dub plate delicacies from the Cosmic American buffet. The band serves up future sounds from the fragrant wasteland. bit.ly/4cj87DC

Another excellently cloistered single from Spencer Cullum wraps around the listener like a warm blanket. The new single features fellow Nashville alum Erin Rae on vocals, sparring softly spun phrases over the course of the song’s cottony comforts. bit.ly/3Zvzym8

The Springtime Reminds Me Of…” rambles into view on a wave of strums and the easy air of Olivia Garner’s vocals. The band splits the seams between K classics like Heavenly and aughts Aussie new wavers that brought the genre roaring back. bit.ly/3OkCI9P

Tune in tonight 8-10pm for the Feb edition of Crawl Out From the Fallout, RSTB’s monthly radio show on WGXC. It’s a packed show sure to shoo away the cold! wavefarm.org/wf/archive/m...