Pip Blom Welcome Break Heavenly · November 12, 2021 Welcome Break is the sophomore album of the Dutch alt-rock quartet Pip Blom. The quartet is led by a vocalist and guitarist of the same name and her brother, Tender. The siblings grew up listening to their parents’ British rock records and these influences are the […]
Okay Kaya The Incompatible Okay Kaya Jagjaguwar · October 22, 2021 The Incompatible Okay Kaya is the fourth album Kaya Wilkins has released under her stage name, Okay Kaya. In her Spotify description, Wilkins describes herself as “Singer-crywanker, Maker of Smut pop, Kind of like seasoning, A little someone for anything, Meme approved, Bottom.” The […]
Esperanza Spalding SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB Concord · September 24, 2021 The SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB album is the culmination of three periods of reflection, collaboration, and contemplation led by Esperanza Spalding and her cohorts in a project of the same name. Esperanza Spalding (also known as Irma Nejando or i.e.) is a renowned vocalist, bass player, […]
Mild High Club Going Going Gone Stones Throw · September 17, 2021 Going Going Gone is the third album of Alex Brettin’s solo project, Mild High Club. It comes five years after his ambitious sophomore album, Skiptracing. Brettin’s musical style seamlessly fuses indie, pop, psychedelic, and jazz elements to create layered tracks that defy genre. […]
Bedroom Discotheque, a collaboration between WRBB and LMA, takes place on Wednesday, April 14, from 8-9 p.m. EDT! Take a minute to get familiar with Louis The Child, and we’ll see you at the show. North Shore Chicago-based duo Louis The Child – composed of Robby Hauldren and Freddy Kennett – began making music together […]
Writhing Squares Chart For The Solution Trouble In Mind · March 26, 2021 Philadelphia-based duo Kevin Nickles (sax, flute, synth) and Daniel Provenzano (bass, vocals) bring forth relentless musical chaos as Writhing Squares. Chart For The Solution is their third studio album, and contains two LPs. The double album is “chock full of…heady, progressive, psychedelic […]
Chad VanGaalen World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener Sub Pop · March 19, 2021 Chad VanGaalen likes to eat his vegetables like a deer grazing through the garden – “I get down on my knees…It’s nice to feel the vegetables in your face,” he says. His eighth studio album, World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener, is a […]
Fruit Bats The Pet Parade Merge · March 5, 2021 The Pet Parade is the eighth studio album from Eric D. Johnson’s indie folk-rock project, Fruit Bats. Johnson named the album and its titular track after the wonderfully bizarre pet parade outside of Chicago that he attended with his grandmother as a child. From this […]
Anna Burch If You’re Dreaming Polyvinyl Record Co. · April 3, 2020 Anna Burch’s sophomore album, If You’re Dreaming, invokes feelings of nostalgia and reflection. The album’s instrumentation is simple and sparse. Guitar chords and gentle drums provide the basis of the tracks. This foundation is occasionally ornamented by piano and wind instruments, which, when […]
