Encircled by the smoke of ‘60s folk, Magus dives deep into the dark undercurrents of prog & the edges of proto-metal. Taking inspirations from Sabbath, the band turns social turmoil into unsettling atmospheres & seething tension, a fitting turn for 2026, a year haunted by demons. bit.ly/4vx9d61

Cotton is a master of atmosphere and an architect of dark corners. For her latest she begins with an interpretation of John Clare’s poem ‘I Am!’, weaving the text into a cavernous drone-folk tapestry. bit.ly/3QeK8wv

Backed by Mowed Sound, the song digs its teeth into the cultural collapse that’s happening hour by hour around us. Rosali finds some catharsis in the crumble, a raised middle finger to the American demise, an anthem for our collective despair. If she pulls into your town, don’t miss! bit.ly/4th8Lag

Lee’s Dream conjures pipe smoking session vets slung over an upright. Cowl kneck country, equally at home on one side of a c-90 long haul mix or on the hi-fi in the den. Polished & patient, full of future jukebox gems that settle you back into the cracked plastic of the corner booth. bit.ly/4dSCr8X

Leah Senior preps a new album and sets it up with the wicker folk wonders of “Mothersong.” Dressed up in the baroque bounty of the UK’s ‘60s/’70s folk bloom, fiddles and flutes spar with her strums and soaring vocals, winding around Pentangle riffs and Fairport ruffles. bit.ly/4cLKd3s

Second single “Lies From The Other Side” slips back into the smokescreen of Primitive Ring's psych-soaked scorch. Still chasing Blue Cheer into the fire on this one, the cut pummels the listener, fuming out of the speakers like a cloud emerging from an airbrushed van. bit.ly/4dOxP3N

Orcutt Shelley Miller add one more legendary name to the fold, paring up with The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow for a cover of the Beefheart classic “Hot Head.” As broiled & barbed as one might expect, a fastball of hot wax and thumbtacks that comes at the listener from all directions. bit.ly/4sBthRQ

Fuses brings together Motorists’ Craig Fahner with Swedish drummer and bassist Moa-Linn Rösenlof (Orkan, Spela Död). Setting aside power pop, the new group is immersed in downy Canyon Country, layering soft vocal harmonies over wood-lacqured strums and the distant cry of pedal steel. bit.ly/4dPQPyJ

Golomb's debut was a year-ender here in 2025 & they let loose a tight treasure trove of new & altered gems in its wake this week. The new EP features remixes from Sonic Boom & Wishy, a drop-in from Laraaji, & alternate takes that give new depth to some of their best album tracks. bit.ly/4tfalK3

The Laughing Chimes cull together unreleased material; some of it scrubbed & soaring, some of it intimate 4-track demos, but all cured in their sweet sincerity & unblemished pop adoration. The title track feels like a callback to their first LP, wrapped in the winds of ‘90s indie pop. bit.ly/4syA92o

Tune in tonight from 8-10 pm on WGXC, for this month’s edition of Crawl Out From the Fallout, RSTBs monthly radio show. Super famed with new music tonight! wavefarm.org/wf/archive/d...

Aussie favorites The Gnomes waste no time getting back to work, thickening up their garage punk for a furious new single, “Magic Man.” With a battalion of guitar, a sweat-dipped beat, and shout-a-long chorus, the new single hurtles the band forward for 2026. bit.ly/3OpP5Sz

BCMC crawls into the crevices between folk and prog, sketching out mountain paths traversed by Witthüser & Westrupp, Popul Vuh, Floyd & Terry Riley. “Kaleidosmoke” winds smoke-saturated keys around MacKay’s fluid guitar lines, pulling the listener deep into their crystalline caverns. bit.ly/4t5wH0g

Guided by Game Theory, crushed on The dBs and Permanent Green Light, the new Mythical Motors record crimps together a mixtape of prime-era Left Dial delicacies that prove you should have been paying more attention to Chattanooga these past few years. bit.ly/4tKoi2j

In prep for the packed 2026 Providence Popfest, I've got a fun preview on the site today. The fest has also rounded up a huge comp from its roster of artists with all proceeds going to Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance. Peek in on new tracks from Good Flying Birds and Linda Smith! bit.ly/426tLVi

The Stones blister into a sneered and swaggered brand of glam-punk that leans into the bigger than life expectations draped on the name. The A-side ties some twang into knots, hip-checking power pop and setting the velvet stage for the vamping on the flip. bit.ly/41vHPaF

The site is back from break and there’s no better way to burst into a Monday than with a power pop rinse cycle from West Coast faves Autos. The band celebrates a second pressing of their eponymous debut EP with a new video for standout track “Stay Clean.” bit.ly/3Olw43t

The site’s on a short vacation while my kids are ransacking the house during Spring Break, but you better believe this is on the speakers today! Should be on yours too. orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/hot-head

The debut from Shrunken Elvis proved a penchant for Kosmiche journeys, but Thompson's latest swerve finds him deep in the embrace of fusion, tackling the slickness of ECM-prime improv. Quicksilver guitar runs, funk fringes, & an explorer’s heart permeate the pores of Inner Principles bit.ly/4sdJMTY

On an overcast new album, Herb Lore picks up the yoke of psych-folk for a new generation. Underpinned by aqueous field recordings, the record is wrapped in the lore of the sage’s journey. Hopelessness hangs in overcast hues, but ultimately the journey through finds the clouds parting. bit.ly/47ICmkh

A new mix flips through inspirations that brought RSTB into existence. This is a companion piece to one of the first Raven mixtapes. That one covered a lot of bases, but it mostly kept things cornered in quietude. Here the noise slips in and beauty and dissonance sit side by side. bit.ly/4m4p4o5

Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov come together into a surreal dream of an album, and the psych-funk fantasies are just the beginning of the journey. The pair plunges through gauzy atmospheres, lush arrangements, NEU burble, and psych scorch. bit.ly/41J5YKU

Braiding the frayed ends of Kelley Stoltz and Nikki Sudden, the new single from Taste's Oli Lipton (Now, Cindy) stomps the pedals and tosses garage riffs into the New Wave oven, tumbling out a toasted bit of hip-slung havoc. bit.ly/47zk451

MOO is a return to roots, a power pop gem with a shaggy heart. The record hits like the year’s first rays of East Coast sun, shaking off the plastic facade of L.A. to land among the post-hippie punks pulling Sun Medallions out of flea market stalls. Good to have Tuff back in the ‘boro bit.ly/4bMSh3G

Lorena Quintanilla returns to her solo guise at Rocket with a scathing new single. A colonialist incitement, “Silvia” rings prescient. Paired with a punishing backdrop of industrial rhythms & charred guitars, the new single backs her northern neighbors into their own corroded corner. bit.ly/4s0XJEJ

BASIC's hypnotic heat gets a new dimension today, lighting “Index of Memories” up with less motorik motion and more emphasis on braided stringwork and Avery’s sampled textures. Thrumming like an engine of inertia, a looser and more exploratory vision lands this June from the band. bit.ly/4te16Jn

New Heavy Lidders! The band’s latest wafts in on an afternoon haze of heat stroke and singe, a languid and limber vision of psychedelic sway. Alexander floats above the fray as the band gnarls riffs into driftwood shapes, baked clean by the band’s indomitable heat. bit.ly/4sH5m4d

Like peers who mine the era, Green Seagull embraces a baroque-banded melancholy that wraps organ swells, rose-tinted harmonies, & catchy strums with a bittersweet heart. Their blue atmospheres squeeze a touch of sadness through prismed patterns & paisley pining. bit.ly/48iT1eq

Uni Boys aim for the plush end of the power pop spectrum. This time they lean heavily into the hands of artists who pine without panting; a straightforward dip into the legacy of Brian Wilson as it trickled down through The Raspberries, Chris Bell, and Todd Rundgren. bit.ly/47qqyTG

Beefheart & McQuinn find common ground in the raglan comforts of the ‘70s, paring close harmonies and soft strums with an AOR sensibility that dips back towards Harrison’s solo years. There’s comfort baked into “Yesterdays & Younger Days," a lilting lament to the passage of time. bit.ly/4uUrxFR

With a Western shiver and gauzy textures, Gun Outfit blends Americana & Shoegaze into a heat-glazed swelter on “So Easy To Love.” The guitars wind around the listener in tightening coils, but the danger goes unnoticed as vaporous vocals keep us entranced through the last moments bit.ly/4m2WmUH

On his third in a trio of works Spencer Cullum turns private press aesthetics into warm & woolen arrangements, an intimate collection full of Nashville friends. The record is a reckoning for nature, a personal plea that toes the line between white label wonder & Wicker Man narratives. bit.ly/4dbYsPI

“Where The Place Becomes Forgetting” finds the band at their most pastoral, pushed gently by the pluck of strings, perfumed by the curl & curdle of Courtney Werner’s fiddle. Soaked in strange earth & peat moss, the song's natural charms remain at odds with something below the surface bit.ly/4c5MpT2

The Hanging Stars announce a new album today, produced by Teenage Fanclub’s Gerard Love. Their country roots still spar nicely with their penchant for ‘90s jangled hooks, turning "The Glasshouse" into a pop-glossed strummer that spends quite a bit of time rattling around the brain bit.ly/41s1tnS

Yea-Ming and the Rumours continue to deepen their pop roots on “Paper Doll,” working through resentment & reflection with one foot in pop and another in country. Low slung & simmering, the song slips towards shades of VU with Nico at the wheel, hung heavy with Yea-Ming’s sonorous sigh bit.ly/4bPuLSk

Imbued with his rambler’s wit and country ease, the new record is a travelogue of camping runs and corner characters, a sanguine sanctuary stocked with a case of St. Ides. Davidsohn and Delorme help hem it all in, turning his honeyed hymns into sing-a-longs at the theme park pulpit. bit.ly/4bFG2Ex

Styrofoam Winos blend folk, country, & pop into a potent potion. Their ability to make mood ring shifts through genre is a delight, turning dollar bin desires into eclectic classics. With a hint of twang & a radiator hum of New Wave, “Pearls” enters a new treasure into their trove bit.ly/4btmiVY

With a gothic air, and a penchant for the doom-laden corners of folk, Magus injects a dread befitting out current times into the equation on “Through Darkened Glass.” The song rumbles in on notes of thunder, twining knotted guitar lines around the blackened growl. bit.ly/3PsCHkT

A look back at one of the best treasures from the 00's psych-folk bloom. Vermont's Feathers burned bright, but dissipated quickly into the ether. They leave behind a candlelit curio that's only sweetened with age. 20 years on, it's still one of my favorites. bit.ly/3Pjz2G3

Primitive Ring brings a tectonic thunder to the table that’s coated in creosote and picking up the power trio yoke left slack from the ‘70s. “Heads Will Roll” rips into the listener with the fuzz-tumbled bluster of Blue Cheer, Toad, or Leaf Hound. bit.ly/4doIim8

ÖLÜM bring the Turkish heat on a new single today, a chugging, riff-flayed ripper. The song sinks it’s teeth into the heart of ‘70s smoker staples, feeling like it should be splashed across the side of a custom van. The band gives the cut an excellent Spaghetti Western video to match. bit.ly/4sgksgR

Rocketship found its footing somewhere between the jangled & jeweled gardens of twee pop & the headier burbling of Radiophonic plug jockeys like Stereolab, Broadcast, & Unrest. The LP is often at its best while letting its pop impulses become washed away by its more experimental ones. bit.ly/4sTP8Vj

The first peek into the new album from perennial favorites Horse Lords pairs a re-imagining of sacred harp music with their turbulent textures. Syncopated and snarled, the songs ricochet the listener around their crystalline creation. bit.ly/472AKl7

Dehan’s always had a way with an unhurried ease, but “Bad Luck” feels even more faded and folded than usual. The song wafts onto the speakers on a breeze of piano and soft strums, a call back to his early bedroom days scrubbed up with a studio sheen. bit.ly/40wMMzD

Locked into the smooth, single malt side of the ’70s like Drugdealer or Wyes Blood. Chet Sounds' earlier works blended a bedroom scruffiness with aims at AM glory, but on his latest album the sound hits crisp and clear, tumbling out of the speakers in Quadrophonic crispness. bit.ly/4sffoJS

The Outfit reimagines rock as a tent revival for the restless, a church of dashed dreams and determined resolve. The choruses soar like choirs, the drums pound and pulse. Guitars favor the guilty, but we’re washed clean and cured, lifted up and set free. bit.ly/4bp9rTi

Tacoma Park, the North Carolina duo of Ben Felton and John Harrison, return to @centripetalforce.bsky.social for a new album. First single “Untied” slips through the undulating ether to bring waves of synth and steel, culminating in a swell that fills the mind. bit.ly/4bl3oPx

Mystery Groop brings together members of Groop & Mystery Egg, the latter better known as Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band. A one-off show in 2023 was lucky enough to get cut to tape, a deep grooved set that’s boiled in psych & prog, pulsing through visions of Can & Gong. bit.ly/4b6pOFB

From its first moments the record rolls through the bedrock of glam-scented power pop, capturing the coy elasticity of Sweet, the rock candy whimsy of Milk n’Cookies, & boundless energy of Colors. Hooked is a quicksilver slice of pop heaven that only digs its barbs deeper on each spin bit.ly/4lpjkVR

Built on percolating percussion and oscillating Rhodes, The MerKaBa Brotherhood weave textured visions that lay over the listener like a sound bath. The kaleidoscopic “Galgalim” spins its shapes over the mind in glycerine-coated colors. bit.ly/410Dg7W