The Lost Swedish Metal Band TRP Returns After 40 Years of Teenage Metal Mayhem
Long before Scandinavian metal became a global export, there were bands like TRP, a group of teenagers from the small southern Swedish village of Fjälkinge who played as...
Goran Glad: Crafting an ‘Extraordinary Life’ One Day at a Time in Zagreb
Goran Glad started in an attic on Cernička Street in Zagreb, working through songs the long way, recording, reworking, and keeping what held. The setting matters, though not...
BBCC Announce Conceptual New Album ‘King Michael II,’ Share 16mm Video for ‘Campfire’
French art-rockers BBCC are leaning all the way into high-concept fantasy. Today the band released 'Campfire,' the lead single from their next album, 'King Michael II and the...
Bhopal’s Flowers Unveils ‘Miroir Miroir’ from Upcoming Album ‘Poivre Rose’
Bhopal’s Flowers has always occupied a strange, beautiful middle ground between 60s pop and Indian classical tradition. Their new single, 'Miroir Miroir,' feels like the peak of that...
Mavis Guitar Unveils ‘With Your Boots On’ taken from ‘Pedal Steel Trio’
Kentucky pedal steel player Travis Talbert spends a massive chunk of his time touring and recording with roots stalwarts like Jeremy Pinnell and Arlo McKinley, or lending his...
Sir Richard Bishop on Sun City Girls, Improvisation and ‘Hillbilly Ragas’ Interview
Sir Richard Bishop has spent decades sounding like a man in dialogue with some older, stranger America, one that lives in backwoods folklore, half-forgotten traditions, battered open tunings...
Alex Radus — ‘Where Liberty Lives’
Alex Radus is a singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania. Hailed as a “Skilled Fretman” and “Versatile Crooner,” but self-described as a “Purveyor of genre whiplash,” Radus’s art is both musically...
Pastel Blank Personifies the Habit on ‘Sweet Nic’ from Debut LP ‘Unmade in Minutes’
Montreal’s Pastel Blank is carving out a niche where the jittery spirit of 70s art-rock meets a very modern, very caffeinated brand of DIY. After recently joining the...
The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Mark Crozer Announces New Album ‘Homecoming,’ Shares ‘You and Me on the Astral Plane’
Mark Crozer has spent nearly two decades as a cornerstone of The Jesus and Mary Chain, but his latest turn feels like a total reset. After nearly hanging...
Atsuko Chiba Shares ‘Torn’ from Their Upcoming Self-Titled Album
It is rare to see a band willingly strip away the very thing that made them famous. For Montreal’s Atsuko Chiba, that meant putting aside the aggressive, distorted...