Faster and Louder

The best thing about the underground music scene right now is that there's so much great music out there. That can also be one of the gr...

What a glorious thing it is to have another surprise holiday single from The Kung Fu Monkeys magically appear just when the world needed it ...

Andresa Nugraha, the artist behind the one-man garage punk phenomenon The Battlebeats, has released something very different under his own n...

One of the real bright spots in the dumpster fire of a year that was 2020 was the wonderful debut album  from teenage singer Juniper. In col...

When a band contacts you promising "a bop that'll knock John Waters' moustache clean off" and "a beat that compels yo...

While we eagerly await a new Extra Arms album (which is coming this summer!), Ryan Allen has continued to treat fans to some truly excellent...

It's almost guaranteed to be a good sign when an email from a musician begins with "I know I'm a complete nutcase and can't...

What a wonderful surprise that a new track from The Feels has popped up out of nowhere! The Feels is the (mostly) solo project from Christia...

  What a year it has been for Simone Berk! Already she has co-written and sung lead on WhistleStop Rock's single "Queen of the Driv...

Out today from Boston foursome Field Day, "Everything, Everyone"/"The Next Day" is essentially a pair of singles release...

Brick Nova, a foursome from the Philadelphia area, has just released its third album. This self-titled long player is a fine example of musi...

In the midst of all the bleakness of 2020, the debut album from Juniper brings the world some much-needed sunshine. Juniper is the 15-year...

Secret Mission Records has been bringing music from some of the best bands in Japan to American shores for a number of years now. That ver...

What was I just saying about Moncton? There's got to be something in the air or the water or the Timbits that is producing so much ama...

It has been a year and a half since Ryan Allen released Heart String Soul - which has quickly become one of my two or three favorite albu...

If my posts are infrequent over the next week or so, you can blame Ryan Allen for that. I love his new album so much that I can't br...

So a decade ago, The Unlovables released Crush Boyfriend Heartbreak - a pop-punk classic and one of my 25 favorite albums ever . The equa...

The Kung Fu Monkeys are without question one of my favorite bands of all-time. Their music is aural happiness of such potency that it ough...