Formed early in the pandemic when they found themselves with unexpected free time and a desire to make music together, English alt rock outfit The Smile features Radiohead’s two most visible members- frontman Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood- along with famed English jazz drummer Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet). The band made their…
Made up of cousins Ruby da Cherry and $crim, New Orleans hip hop duo $uicideboy$ have been one of the biggest underground success stories of the last few years, rising from the online buzz of self-produced, independently released and incredibly subversive mixtapes to selling out shows nationwide, collaborating with stars like Travis Barker, and becoming one of…

The long-awaited return of Bonnaroo is nearly upon us, with the first fest since 2019 set to take place next weekend, June 16-19, after a would be late 2021 installment was unfortunately rained out (and, of course, 2020 was postponed due to Covid). We’ve been hard at work helping you prepare with a series…
Anti-folk/indie pop singer-songwriter Regina Spektor is gearing up to release her eighth album and first in six years, Home, before and after, later this month, June 24, and has recently been sharing some new tunes in anticipation, beginning with “Becoming All Alone” and “Up the Mountain,” and, most recently, “Loveology,” a fan-favorite song she’s…
Formed in the late 90s in Versailles, France, and a moderate indie underground success throughout the ’00s, it was 2009’s fourth album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix that made indie pop outfit Phoenix into massive international stars, propelled by hits like “Lisztomania” and “1901.” Though the group have only released two LPs since, 2013’s Bankrupt! and…
Though they first came to prominence as a teen actor on Disney Channel, singer Demi Lovato has, perhaps above all else, most flourished as a musician, swiftly becoming a radio fixture in the pop rock (and pop punk adjacent) scene of the late ’00s with debut album Don’t Forget in 2008. Over the years,…
Since forming in 2008, Torrance, California’s Joyce Manor have, like many of their peers in the contemporary punk scene, managed to achieve both organic, indie punk authenticity and broader critical recognition from outlets once too “cool” to cover anything that might be labeled pop punk or emo a decade ago (that “emo revival” is really just…

Though, early on, she found attention online as a vlogger and media personality under the moniker Meekakitty, for the past decade or so, indie pop singer Tessa Violet has been mostly focused on making music under her own name, met with early buzz for her self-released 2014 debut Maybe Trapped Mostly Troubled. With 2019’s…

Famed pop rock outfit Panic! at the Disco, one of the most enduring and popular acts to spring out of the ’00s emo and pop punk scene, and now ostensibly a solo vehicle for multi-talented artist Brendon Urie, have announced their return with a forthcoming seventh album, Viva Las Vengeance, due out Aug. 19.…
Briefly a Nashville resident while attending (and subsequently dropping out of) Belmont, 24 year old Atlanta singer-songwriter Faye Webster is an exciting and buzzworthy indie/folk breakout, and an artist hard to pin to any single genre convention. Raised on country and western, Webster’s first album, released in her teens, is more informed by her Americana upbringing,…