Roscoe Mitchell, Junius Paul and Vincent Davis brought a lofty aura of positive improvisation to the mega cool Cafe Coda

White Denim Releases New Album 13 Today via @bellaunion.bsky.social Listen to their New Single “Time Time”

FRIKO “Something Worth Waiting For” (@atorecords.bsky.social) www.whoisfriko.com Exhorting, cavorting, contorting and reporting, Friko’s toppling chamber-rock psy-ops build grand-slammed anthems rising from fiery horizons. Ledge-threatening reneging, “Worth,” purges cavernous despair with

METRIC “Romanticize the Dive” (Thirty Tigers) www.ilovemetric.com A glossy monster distilling digital willfulness, “Romanticize,” pulverizes studio-mutated monuments into solid-state earthquakes and polyphonic arena-rock. A poet’s whip-smart repartee yields dynamic dramas with

MISS GRIT “Under My Umbrella” (@muterecords.bsky.social) www.missgrit.com Washed in posh ominous taunts, the defiant Miss Grit tackles closed-circuit fury with sleek emotional control taming creative mayhem with combative talent.

New song from @lucydacus.bsky.social who plays Madison, WI’s @thesylvee.bsky.social July 12th!

The unstoppable Glen Donaldson aka The Reds, Pinks and Purples returns with another taut set of jangly, Bay Area-coded pop, this time imagining a parallel timeline where The Cure and The Go-Betweens found themselves languishing in an Oakland bedsit... boomkat.com/products/ack...

Sohn reflects: “I learned a lot about myself through making this album; it was an exercise in vulnerability. With 'Waste Me,' especially, I had never been so honest with my lyrics. . . to the extent that I almost wasn’t comfortable including it on the album.”from Miss Grit’s, Under My Umbrella.

Ghanaian-Australian auteur Genesis Owusu returns with “LIFE KEEPS GOING,” the latest single from his upcoming album REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, out May 15 via OURNESS. “LIFE KEEPS GOING” is a club cut propelled by a gritty DnB throughline, punctuating the track with force and movement.

IAN SWEET Announces New Album, Shiverstruck, Out July 24th via Polyvinyl, & North American Tour Thu. Oct. 22 - Milwaukee, WI @ Falcon Bowl Sat. Oct. 24 - Eau Claire, WI @ The Plus Listen to Lead Single, “Criminal Kissing”

In celebration of Earth Day, Ed O'Brien releases “Incantations,” the second single from Blue Morpho, his absorbing, second solo album and first under his own name, out May 22nd via Transgressive.

Boards of Canada are releasing their new album, Inferno, on May 29.

Friko release "Something Worth Waiting For,” the final single from their highly anticipated sophomore album, Something Worth Waiting For, out this Friday via @atorecords.bsky.social

Beth Orton announces her new album The Ground Above, out June 26th on @partisanrecords.bsky.social. She also shares new single “Waiting,” a slow building, life affirming track. Orton says the song “is a celebration of moving out of the holding pattern fear keeps us in.”

Ivy Ford brought some wonderfully funky Chicago blues to @highnoonmadison.bsky.social for a fun Sunday get-down!

Fun show from Water From Your Eyes headlining this year’s WUDStock.

Yasmin Williams’s phenomenal guitar playing lit up the Stoughton Opera House with sharp skills and smiling stories.

@ratboysband.bsky.social pulled out all the stops @ Madison’s Atwood Music Hall and delivered a stupendous show as hail, rain and twisters popped from the skies!

marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/album/the-an... Marisa Anderson shares, "Quodlibet": from her album The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music vol. 1 out May 22nd via @thrilljockey.bsky.social A portion of the album's proceeds will be donated to Tamizdat Marisa plays @artlitlab.bsky.social May 28th

Hear Oneohtrix Point Never's trancelike new track "Dim Stars"

Bedouine booked a fall tour in support of 'Neon Summer Skin,' a new album set for release in June. View the dates and stream the newly shared "Always On Time," the second single from the LP ...

Hear @nationoflanguage.bsky.social's great cover of @brucespringsteen.net's 'Tunnel Of Love' classic "Tougher Than The Rest"

matmos.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-... Berndt / Schmidt the duo of M.C. Schmidt (Matmos) and John Berndt announces debut duo album Cloud Machines Out on June 12th via Thrill Jockey. Listen to first single "Gecko Lazzaro" feat. Horse Lords' Owen Gardner and trombonist Patrick Crossland

BCMC "Kaleidosmoke" youtu.be/dm7_TZwdHlo?si… The first single from Stash, out June 26, via Drag City, is the absolutely energy-drenched second album from BillMacKay and Cooper Crain’s guitar n’ keys power duo for the ages, a borderless pursuit of cosmic music.

Rockin’ a sold out Monday show @highnoonmadison.bsky.social Brigitte Calls Me Baby pulled out all the stops and delivered a wonderfully sizzling set!

SKORTS tore up the stage @highnoonmadison.bsky.social in a sold out show with Brigitte Calls Me Baby.

Intense afternoon spent with @throwingmuses.bsky.social @shankhall.com - the vibes were alive setting demons on fire before a cheering crowd!

JOE JACKSON “Hope and Fury” (Ear Music) www.joejackson.com Sharkskin snark hosting infectious musical fusions, “Hope,” stokes Jackson’s testy quests for common sense and clarity. A cunning curmudgeon wrestling existential questions against pretentious conventions,

David Byrne and company put on a phenomenal show @ Portland’s Keller Auditorium

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Kashi Bashi celebrated the ten year anniversary of Sonderlust with a sold out show @majesticmadison.bsky.social and a Saturday party with Mr Steak and Honeybody!

WENDY EISENBERG “Wendy Eisenberg” (@joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social) www.wendyeisenberg.com Slipping quotable quips around acoustic guitars woven in cozy innovations, Eisenberg’s gate-keeper leaps twist whimsical literacy into gossamer jazz-folk mysteries, ethereal six-string epiphanies roped into

ELIZABETH AND THE CATAPULT “Responsible Friend” (Compass Records) www.elizabethandthecatapult.com Frothy chamber-pop laying bare human nature in tunes summoned from motherly comfort, mischievous wit and fearless experience, “Responsible,” teeters between impish wisdom and adult supposition.

JESCA HOOP shares "BIG STORM" From LONG WAVE HOME Out MAY 1ST Plays Milwaukee’s Shank Hall June 22nd

Metric shares their latest single, “Crush Forever.” The new track from their upcoming album, Romanticize The Dive – arriving April 24 on Thirty Tigers – is what frontwoman Emily Haines calls “my love letter to strong girls in this world.”

Stimulating scenarios bombarded the senses when Milwaukee’s The Jazz Gallery hosted the overloaded fever dream of electronic pioneer Molto Ohm.

Friko Release New Single “Still Around” & Announce Fall North American Headline Tour New Album, Something Worth Waiting For, Out April 24 via ATO Records

BETH ORTON “THE GROUND ABOVE” HER FIRST NEW MUSIC SINCE WEATHER ALIVE OUT NOW VIA @partisanrecords.bsky.social

Big Harp - Runs to Blue (Saddle Creek) #Music #MusicSky #MusicReviews #IndieMusic

“This is an enjoyable and at points captivating album, but sometimes it sounds like a band beaten down by the world.” The Former Site of The New Pornographers | READ OUR REVIEW: www.stateofsoundmagazine.com/the-new-porn... #thenewpornographers

Charlotte Cornfield Grows Through Changes on 'Hurts Like Hell'

From the new album, "The Confuser" out July 24, 2026 on Tiny Ghost Records

VARIOUS ARTISTS “When There Is No Sun” (Omni Sound) www.omnisoundlabel.bandcamp.com Esoteric connectors, music’s global all-star producers turn Afrofuturist Sun Ra’s avant-garde words and music into clubhouse enlightenment where looping grooves melt abstract thoughts into involuntary responses.

Twen pulled out all stops and gave a stupendous performance @highnoonmadison.bsky.social

Fantastic mixture of sweetness and melancholy from the new Paul McCartney single "The days we left behind" youtu.be/2n1IhyF6R0U?... I like the subtle video too - the whole thing has a lovely tone to it, makes me feel positive for the new album #TheBoysOfDungeonLane

MB3 - Island of One

Bach Artillerie, Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and Curt Sydnor, share new single & video “Canon à la seconde des Variations Goldberg;” Self-titled album out April 24 on Ernest Jenning Record Co.

Cate is great.

INARA GEORGE “Songs by Douglass and Littell” (Release Me Records) www.inarageorge.com A whiff of sophisticated wit mixed with lush cocktail jazz, “Songs,” conjures sultry rebuttals, classy dalliances and chance encounters. Swooping moods groomed in sumptuous ballgown glamour,

more eaze “sentence structure in the country” (@thrilljockey.bsky.social) www.moreeaze.bandcamp.com A solo album shaped by savvy collaborators, “sentence,” ferments years-old ideas into ultra-modern art-pop whose future music visions ring with delicate elevations and eclectic experiments.