It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring @zayallcaps.bsky.social's modern madcap pop spectacle ART POP * POP ART and bloodsports' thrillingly aggressive ANYTHING CAN BE A HAMMER! Read about both and then check them out over on @bandcamp.com!

Lifeless in execution with a confounding script, Scott Cooper's vision of Bruce Springsteen is disheartening. SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE is one of the biggest whiffs for an artist biopic of this size and scale ever, and a disservice to the Boss.

Big thanks to CJ at Merry-Go-Round for this fantastic write up on the Sweet Nobody album. Click through for a premier of the whole thing!

Sweet Nobody's latest, DRIVING OFF TO NOWHERE, is their fullest sounding yet, a wonderful mix of summer bummer tunes that act as a meeting point between angsty '60s surf rock and cloudy 2010s internet indie pop. It's out tomorrow via @repeatingcloud.com but get an early listen below!

Our relationship with our own art, especially older works, is complicated. None know this better than Nussy Andrews. We chat with her about the complicated emotions that come with writing and recording music, the most recent album VENUS BABY, and more!

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week featuring the latest stadium sized self-titled album from Plight, out now via à La Carte Records, and Tuskers' cheeky country colored record START CALLING MORGUES, out now via Just For Now. Read about both and listen today over on @bandcamp.com!

Two weeks ago, my buddy Jon and I attend a 24-hour horror movie marathon at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social. I wrote about my love for horror movies, lifelong friendships, and the experience of watching films in a theatre full of like-minded folks for @mgrmagazine.bsky.social.

Repertory theaters across the country come alive during October with horror programming, the crown jewel being the all night marathon. But what is it like to survive one? @jackprobst.com walks us through 24 hours of scares attending @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social's 2025 Music Box of Horrors!

From the frontlines of AFI Fest 2025, writer Michael Fairbanks breaks down the cognitive dissonance required to tackle a modern film fest, where going from a doc like THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB to a drama like BAD APPLES forces you to do mental gymnastics.

Great. Phenomenal. Two words that fit feeo's debut record and her exploration of the enormous cityscape, and Jules Reidy's transformative new album, evoking their voice into otherwordly territory. Certainly AOTY contenders! My write-up on feeo and Jules Reidy's albums is up on MGR Mag!

"I remember there’s a scene in the film where Sosé says, like, 'We fought the world’s most modern weapons with this,' and she’s holding an AK-47 from the 1970s, and I think that kind of tells you everything there is to say about this conflict."

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the stirring electronic textures of feeo’s GOODNESS, out now via @ad93rec.bsky.social, and the left-field avant-pop compositions of Jules Reidy’s GHOST/SPIRIT, out now via @thrilljockey.bsky.social! Read about both and listen today!

Perry Eaton's spent the last 10 years writing dazzling rock hooks for his project Beeef. He's now back with Ivy Boy, an airy singer-songwriter project that's sonically somewhere between Bread and the Clean. His effervescent debut is out tomorrow, but you can give it an early listen now!

We're thrilled to have Jobber's Kate Meizner step back into the ring with Hard Time Blues to discuss the new album JOBBER TO THE STARS, out now via @eisrecords.bsky.social. We chat about noted wrestling fan Bob Mould, the state of the AEW and WWE's women's divisions, SOME KIND OF MONSTER, and more!

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the post-hype folksy wonder of Molly Tuttle's SO LONG LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, out now via @nonesuch.com, and the dazed country of The Pink Stones' THANK THE LORD… IT’S THE PINK STONES, out now via Normaltown!

Ending a podcast series is seemingly like ending a TV show in some ways. Some do it well, some don’t. Much like how he pioneered the medium, Maron is the first of his kind to end it like this. So how did the finale of WTF WITH MARC MARON go?

"Think about how much you learn from interviewing people, right? I get to do little interviews while I’m just trying to make them comfortable. Photography is when you’re building trust. It’s opening up to them, relating with them, making them feel comfortable."

"displays the wonder of different artistic disciplines markedly coalescing into an inspiring work" lovely write up Dom Lepore & @mgrmagazine.bsky.social ❤️

We had the honor to chat with director Emily Mkrtichian to discuss her new documentary THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT. She broke down the visceral immediacy of the conflicts facing production, the challenges and triumphs of connecting with and celebrating Armenian heritage, and more!

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the imaginative and inspired ambience of Kirin McElwain's YOUTH, out now via @akprecordings.bsky.social, and the crushingly soulful lo-fi folk of Emily Hines' THESE DAYS, out now via @keeledscales.bsky.social! Read about both albums today!

On THE COUNT, songs are shaped from fragmentary phrases, glued together by gasps of yearning and bravado. It and Frog's previous '25 release, 1000 VARIATIONS ON THE SAME SONG, establish them as one of the most freewheelin' acts making music today.

Baltimore’s Micah E. Wood is a true multidisciplinary artist—a photographer, musician, and fabric within the local community. We chatted with him about his new album YOU, ME, THE REIGN, where he deftly jumps between political unrest and a search for love.

Working on a variety of humorous levels, from laugh out loud funny to passively amusing to, even in a certain sense, genuinely practical, Fred Armisen's 100 SOUND EFFECTS interestingly captures his charm and personality.

Happy Bandcamp Friday! Check out our Picks of the Week, including the timeless technicolored ambiance of Kevin McCormick & David Horridge’s LIGHT PATTERNS and one of the best under the radar shoegaze records of 2025 in Chatham Rise’s TRILLIUM! Read about both and then grab 'em over on @bandcamp.com!

Out now wherever you find podcasts, we’re joined by @mgrmagazine.bsky.social’s @cjsimonson.bsky.social on this season premiere of our new series, The 1950’s Number Ones. Find your platform of choice here: linktr.ee/indieheadspodcast

Listen to Editor-in-Chief @cjsimonson.bsky.social gab about the music of the early '50s over on the @indieheadspod.bsky.social!

Julian Glander’s BOYS GO TO JUPITER is 2025's best coming-of-age film, a thoughtful and beautifully animated exploration of tech, capitalism, and hustle culture that is as anxious as it is calming. We chatted with him about the cast, honing in the script, the movie's remarkable music, and much more!

On the premiere episode of the 1950's Number Ones, we're joined by @mgrmagazine.bsky.social’s @cjsimonson.bsky.social as we relay every #1 hit from Truman’s State of the Union to the End of the Battle of the Ch’ongch’on River. Support us now on Patreon to hear the full episode over 48 hours early!

It's our Bandcamp Pick of the Week, featuring @luxterminus.bsky.social’s vintage prog metal exploration CINDER, out now via MetalMedia Group! Read about it and then give it a listen over on @bandcamp.com!

The latest single from Ruby Sparks' debut album IRIS comes in the form of a darting garage rock tune with smoothed out edges and vintage psych pop wonder. Listen to our premiere of "Love's All We Have" today!

On this week's Bandcamp Picks of the Week segment, I go for two delightful finds. One blends death metal with chilling post-punk snarl, the other is a reflective plugg folktronica. Both are great and worth listening to. My write-ups of FLOATING and Zyber's albums are up on MGR Mag!

THE LONG WALK arrives at a moment where the 18-24 male demo is at a scary crossroads, one playing out in the news daily. It's a bleaker, more realistic take on the YA apocalyptic adaptations from a decade ago, asking in a whisper "Which Way, Western Man?"

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring FLOATING’s post-punk infused metal exploration HESITATING LIGHTS, out now via @transcendingobs.bsky.social, and Zyber's experimental hip hop journey SMILE! YOU’RE ON CAMERA, out now via Killstreak Certified! Read about both today!

You think I just go on and on and on about comics? No, dude, my blow-hard-ed-ness also applies to music, like that of the awesome BRNDA. My latest for @mgrmagazine.bsky.social:

BRNDA has spoken! Wisdom on display! Such a great piece here. Thx for chatting with BRNDA, Chris! ❤️

BRNDA explore human suffering on TOTAL PAIN the same way they always have, offering brilliantly dry art-rock that eschews boundaries and boxes. We profiled the band, and discussed the truths and perspectives that come from struggle. Check out the new album, out now via @craftedsounds.bsky.social!

The last two gasps for summer box office relevance came and went, with THE ROSES and CAUGHT STEALING falling flat as fine films ideal for cable commercial interruption. TNT? USA? TBS? This kind of amicable, average, agreeable filmmaking is for you!

In the recent Bandcamp Picks of the Week, I speak about @celestaphone.com & Dealers of God's brand of psychedelic, heady hip-hop that goes on layers of zany bars that strangles conspiracy theory bullshit at bay. You wouldn't hear anything like this one this year, check it out!

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the conspiratorial psychy hip hop of @celestaphone.com & Dealers of God's CULT SUBTERRANEA, out now via Dismiss Yourself, and an explosive hardcore split from Statement of Pride, Destiny, and Envision, IT COMES FROM WITHIN...! Check out both today!

Tomorrow, saturdays at your place will release THESE THINGS HAPPEN. At war with time, distance, and adulthood, we hear them falling in love, recovering from broken hearts, and trying to grow. They come out the other side with one of the years most exciting emo albums.

Happy Bandcamp Friday! Here are our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, including the thorny emo pop of The April Situation's self-titled EP and the blitzing hardcore of Scarab's BURN AFTER LISTENING! Read about both and then grab yourself a copy of both over on @bandcamp.com!

Natasha Newling, who makes music under the name RAYHAB, walks us through her new EP RESIDUE, how she took to separating production from songwriting, reconciling with the past, and more! Give the record a listen today!

"I was there when AHA SHAKE HEARTBREAK automatically downloaded spyware when you ripped it to iTunes. I was there in 2014, handing in my resignation at the record store to take a job that would have me sitting in a cubicle paying me enough to survive. That’s when I started losing my edge."

So-bad-it's-good film lovers have long since turned over every rock in movie history, but if we turn to the present what has 2025 offered into the canon, and what does it say about our current moment? An exploration of THE TOXIC AVENGER, M3GAN 2.0, and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.

Art rock project Flooding recently released OBJECT 1, their latest EP that continues to traverse the fruitful slowcore scene developing in Kansas City. We chatted with Rose Brown about the EP, the ways our environment affects our art, and more!

PRIVATE MUSIC is a cacophony of exciting sounds and ideas, showcasing why Deftones have continually been reassessed as one of the best hard rock bands of all time. It’s confident and beautiful in ways that OHMS or GORE simply weren’t, and lives up to their now legacy status.

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring two records pulling from late ’90s and 2000s aesthetics, including uponbrokenapologies’s metalcore EP SILENCE AND SORROW, out now via The Coming Strife, and Nihilistic Easyrider’s post-grunge alt rock album DELUXE EDITION, out now via Run For Cover!

Good morning! I wrote an essay about @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fantastic new book, loving indie rock from behind the counter at a record store, and when I lost my edge for @mgrmagazine.bsky.social!

@chrisdeville.bsky.social's new book, SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, is a thorough and often necessary feeling exploration of blog era indie rock writ large, from Pavement to Mitski to Sufjan and beyond. For those of us who lived it, it's a refreshing read but a devastating reminder of the passage of time.