Alash conjured spirit animals and musical magic at The Bur Oak in a truly amazing concert.

@darwilliams.bsky.social put on a Wonderful show at Madison’s Atwood Music Hall celebrating her Hummingbird Highway album with a great band and basking in the warmth and community of her loving fans.

GUM's Blue GUM Way is here! Check out the latest single from it - In Life!

BORY “Never Turns to Night” (Bleak Enterprises) www.bory.bandcamp.com Catch-a-wave jangle coerced into baroque psychedelia, “Never,” builds charming harmonics with fuzz-box muscle, phased mayhem and cosmic comic-book hooks. Euphoric joyride choruses skyrocket from poignant to coy

SCOUT GILLETT “Tough Touch” (Slouch Records) www.scoutgillettmusic.bandcamp.com Balancing ballads with rockers, Gillett’s eclectic indie-country heart sooths and woos in hope and woe then sears and rears with rage and tears. Winding around barroom banter dancing to boppy waltzes as easily as

THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES RELEASE NEW SINGLE, “WORTHY OF LOVE” ACKNOWLEDGE KINDNESS ARRIVES VIA FIRE RECORDS ON FRIDAY, APRIL 24th

Happy Place – original music by Goran Ivanovic. This piece is part of the upcoming album Far Away Feeling, a collection of cinematic and intimate guitar music inspired by memory, travel, and quiet moments.

Acclaimed Olympia, WA country/punk maximalists Pigeon Pit announce U.S. tour dates in support of their new album Leash Aggression out now on Ernest Jenning Record Co. The May U.S. run includes a stop in Milwaukee May 4th Anodyne Coffee with support from Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra.

Formerly Fresh by El Ten Eleven From "Nowhere Faster" out 4/10/2026 via @joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social

TINARIWEN SHARE NEW SINGLE “AMIDINIM EHAF SOLAN” From HOGGAR OUT MARCH 13 VIA WEDGE

JESCA HOOP SHARES "CARAVAN" from LONG WAVE HOME OUT MAY 1ST

Friko Release New Single/Video “Choo Choo” New Album, Something Worth Waiting For, Out April 24th via @atorecords.bsky.social

Portland band foamboy releases a new stand-alone single, "Self Improvement," an infectiously catchy bop about becoming the best version of yourself.

Ahead of this Friday’s release of her defining sophomore album Tough Touch (Slouch Records), Scout Gillett has previewed its swaying, twangy final single “Gonna Change”

Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas wowed the crowd at Madison’s The Bur Oak with stories, songs and an invitation to come together and make some noise!

Sebastian Langdell on Bill Callahan's latest album, exploring fatherhood, time, and forgiveness: "He gets to the heart of a certain kind of gratitude that can befall a man on an ordinary day in middle life." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bill-callahan-my-days-58-album-review-songwriter/

Congratulations to Heavenly on their new album Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax), out today! heavenly.bandcamp.com/album/highwa...

MITSKI “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me” (Dead Ocean) www.mitski.com Jaunty theatrics disguise first-person curiosity inside musical group therapy as Mitski.pitches beautiful arrangements and live ensembles with cerebral glee and bouncy lounge teases.

The “If I Leave” video is at once stunning, unsettling, and darkly funny. Set in a house breathing with menace and history, each room carries its own traces of the lives and eerie moments it once contained. Mitski and members of her band perform within these spooky spaces with calm indifference...

LALA LALA “Heaven 2” (@subpop.bsky.social) www.lalabandlala.bandcamp.com Alien planets landscaped in final chapters and turned pages, singer-songwriter, synthesist Lala Lala’s sequenced ecosystems color thoughts and shift feelings chattering in spectacularly elastic pageantry with

deathcrash “Somersaults” (untitled (recs)) www.deathcrash.bandcamp.com Vulnerable tumblers, deathcrash funnels deliberate minimalism into slow-roasted commotion. Bleeding hearts from tired survivors washed in pensive second winds, the provocative, “Somersaults,”

Modern Woman —the London art-rock band fronted by primary songwriter Sophie Harris—release “Neptune Girl,” the second single/video from their debut album, Johnny’s Dreamworld, out May 1st via @olirecords.bsky.social

Colleen, aka multi-instrumentalist Cécile Schott, has shared the new single "Mis armas se habían caído al suelo," the opening piece from her upcoming album Libres antes del final, out March 20th via @thrilljockey.bsky.social

Mitski performs "I'll Change For You" from her eighth studio album, 'Nothing's About to Happen to Me,' available everywhere this Friday via @deadoceans.bsky.social

Joan as Policewoman - embarking on a 20th Anniversary tour celebrating Real Life - wish they played more than two Stateside shows… on my bucket list for years.

"Left side to the right side, front side to the back. We’re all in the shit together, my loves. Docile and languid for what? Shake the fucking ground. Be heeded and not herded. Scream to make the world a better place." - Genesis Owusu

The Leaf Library join @fikarecordings.com and announce their new album “After The Rain, Strange Seeds” out March 20th and share the new single “Catch Up, Isobel”

Marisa Anderson announces new album The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol. 1, the first part in a planned trilogy, is out May 22nd A portion of the album's proceeds will go to Tamizdat Listen to first single "Taqsim for Guitar"

Flat Five on Valentine’s Day @ Stoughton Opera. Golden throated harmonies and a deep love for heartfelt songs made for a great evening.

Bad Bad Hats were in very fine form celebrating the tenth anniversary of their debut album Psychic Reader @highnoonmadison.bsky.social

Free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements announces their return with their fifth studio album, Future Present Past, out March 27th via Impulse!. The announcement comes alongside the release of, “Don’t Lose Your Head”

ÁSGEIR “Julia” (One Little Independent Records) www.asgeirmusic.com Delicate eloquence sheltering reflective setbacks, “Julia,” unspools high hopes cast upon shimmering rivers delivering safe havens in harmonious flow. Ásgeir’s first-time self-penned lyrics float over flickering bliss

UK band Heavenly shares a new single & video, "Scene Stealing.” The track arrives ahead of the band's first new album in 30 years, Highway To Heavenly, out on Skep Wax worldwide on Feb. 27.

BASIC - Chris Forysth, Mikel Patrick Avery and Douglas McCombs @ The Bur Oak Madison WI - absolutely mesmerizing…

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS have released one of their earliest recordings, revealing the dreamy space-rock of Pocket Sam to fans with acclaimed-actor and original singer, Rhys Ifans on vocals. The track is from the bonus disc of the band’s upcoming Precreation Percolation compilation, out May 1st 2026.

Molto Ohm shares "Nezovyl," pairing woozy synths and textural electronic details with saccharine duet vocals from Aditya Chatterjee & Tanners , the 2nd preview from his upcoming full-length album Reality Pills, arrives Feb 27th via Soap Library.. MO plays MKE’s Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts 3/31.

Hear @paranoiacs.bsky.social's cover of Lucinda Williams' "Passionate Kisses" (and a bunch of other tracks from their new album out this week)

Hear Tinariwen join forces with José González on their heartbroken new migrant-blues song "Imidiwan Takyadam"

Melodi Ghazal’s full-length debut, Idol Melodies, out March 6, 2026 via Anyines, blends’80s pop and Iranian folk traditions. Ghazal shares the second single, "Higher."

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, "The Former Site Of," on March 27 via Merge (@mergerecords.bsky.social). Now they have shared its third single, “Pure Sticker Shock.” www.undertheradarmag.com/news/the_new...

The final single from "sentence structure in the country" is out today! this song is called "healing attempt" and features Wendy Eisenberg on backing vocals. probably the most prog more eaze song.

GUM - Celluloid (Official Video) youtu.be/V-MhzRLE41s?... GUM (aka Jay Watson of Pond & Tame Impala) has announced his 7th album, the self-produced, Blue Gum Way, out Friday, March 6th and shares the first taste Celluloid.

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history. His son Kweku Taylor: “The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

Mirah - "The Ballad of the Bride of Frankenstein" from the album "Dedication" out February 20th, 2026 via Double Double Whammy

Scout Gillett shares, “Coney Island,” the latest off her forthcoming new album Tough Touch, due out March 6th, 2026, via Slouch Records. “I wrote this during a prolonged, really difficult breakup. We went to Coney Island even though we both knew we couldn’t be together anymore…”

Guitarist, filmmaker, graphic artist, and creative force behind The Boo Radleys and bravecaptain – has shared his new single, “Connie Converse Is Playing At My House,” available today exclusively via the artist’s Sonny Boy Records.

Folktales & Legends, Sarah Brailey, Julia Rottmayer, and Deirdre Brenner @ Hamel Music Center Madison WI

Sudan Archives was a phenomenal ball of kinetic energy performing before an absolutely lit crowd @majesticmadison.bsky.social

Bill Frisell Releases New Single “Isfahan” Acclaimed Guitarist’s New Album In My Dreams out February 27 via @bluenoterecords.bsky.social

@ratboysband.bsky.social “Singin’ to an Empty Chair” (NewWest) www.ratboysband.com Pithy epiphanies written with church-mouse sympathy revved in clever guitar hysterics, Chicago’s Ratboys pour the foursome’s collective joy into therapeutic tunes hitched to rambunctious analysis.