Earlier this week, Vancouver-based Indie darlings Peach Pit dropped their new track "Magpie" in advance of its eagerly anticipated, similarly titled parent album. Magpie's October 25th release will be the band's most recent since 2022's From 2 to 3, with this titular single being their first musical offering since that album's "Vicky." "Magpie" sees Peach Pit - who have previously characterized their music as "chewed bubblegum pop" - coloring their trademark aesthetics with layers of rich harmonic fuzz. No pun intended.
Up-and-coming indie quartet Nicotine Dolls take their name from an epithet the band's members coined to describe a particular breed of anti-social partygoer who would rather retreat to outdoor solitude for a quick drag than endure a crowd, so it's a bit ironic that the band is perhaps best known in the public eye for similarly shunning the limelight.
From "Yellow" to "Viva La Vida" through to more recent chart toppers like "My Universe," Coldplay singles have been a near constant presence in the records of popular music. It's difficult, then, to imagine that chain finally breaking - and deliberately, at that. Nevertheless, lead singer Chris Martin alleges that the band's latest release, "ALL MY LOVE," is not only to be the final single to accompany their recent Moon Music LP, but also the last proper single of Coldplay's career.
"Hymn to Virgil" mines elements from almost as many musical idioms as its source material did characters from classical myth. It evokes a cavernous yet dense atmosphere thick as an arboreal mist and heavy as six feet of soil, and from that fertile sonic ground springs something that sounds like indie folk gone dark pop gone movie score.
“Little Belle” from the Gene Dante Album “DL/UX” is an elegant masterpiece wrapped up in three minutes and thirty two...
"Roygbiv," from the landmark album "Music Has a Right to Children," is a wistful, evocative dive into ambient EDM refined via charming pop sensibilities.
SSLy Scout's new single "babylon dayz," releases on October 27th with a full vocal on one side and an instrumental dub version on the flip. The song is a nod to both tradition and innovation, and showcases SSLy's (pronounced "sly) commitment to the roots of dub music while pushing the boundaries of the genre in a new and exciting direction.
Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" has topped the charts for the first time, de-throning Yuletide-queen Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from its yearly spot atop Billboard's Hot 100.
Los Angeles based band The Marias bring you a beautiful lofi-chill track “Calling You Back” that’s just dripping with elements...
A gift to Beatles fans music lovers of all stripes, "Now and Then" is a fitting final offering from one of the most seminal bands of all time.
The Video by David Bowie for the song The Next Day has stirred up a bit of controversy making David...
With an elegant combination of pop melodies and sludgy rock textures, "Saturday Morning" evokes the best of shoegaze bands like My Bloody Valentine while remaining distinctly contemporary and unique, announcing the arrival of an artist to watch with eyes peeled.