Friko Deliver on the Exciting Promise of Their Debut
Buzzy Chicago band Friko go harder and prettier on their latest album, Something Worth Waiting For. It’s destined to be loved by their ever-expanding fanbase.
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Hurray For the Riff Raff Are at a Vibrant, Outspoken Peak
Live Forever captures one of the best sounding tours of 2025, revealing Hurray For the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra as one of the leading musical voices of the 2020s.
Frog Combine Exquisite Melodies and Oddball Arrangements
Frog play with convention, keeping their music genuinely weird, but with a generous helping of songwriting sophistication, and a lot of heart.
The Moss Choose Their Own Path on ‘Big Blue Moon’
The Moss have taken the expansive energy of the Utah peaks and the Hawaiian shores and concentrated it into something sharp, unyielding, and entirely their own.
Salim Nourallah Connects Manila to the Stars
“Making records isn’t for the faint of heart,” notes songwriter Salim Nourallah, who is in the middle of a year when five full-length albums are planned.
The Charlatans’ ‘Some Friendly’ Is Surprisingly Important
The Charlatans’ subsequent career has, in hindsight, rendered Some Friendly more valuable than most anyone expected. It’s one of their most important.
Keith Carne’s “Totally Liminal” Takes Us to the Beautiful In-Between
Keith Carne offers a laidback glide through smooth vocals and buoyant electronic horns with its protagonist recognising the strange beauty of his current stage.
A Place to Bury Strangers Discuss Their Resurrected Songs
A Place to Bury Strangers resurrect lost obscurities for a record that paints a map of their past and future simultaneously. Oliver Ackerman describes the process.
Penny Arcade’s ‘Double Exposure’ Ups the Mellowness
Life spent in retreat and remembrance, darkness invited and dwelled in, despair soothed by melody: that’s the Penny Arcade way.
Brown Horse Get Loud and Bleak As They Drive On
Brown Horse have released their loudest and bleakest LP, where muscular guitars, walloping drums, and thumping pedal steels converge and erupt like a volcano.
The Afghan Whigs’ ‘Black Love’ Is an Underappreciated Masterpiece
Thirty years ago, the Afghan Whigs doubled down on their obsessions with funk and soul to create a song cycle that’s closer to a concept album than it isn’t.
Tigers Jaw Deliver a hooky, emotionally-charged LP
In Lost on You, emo band Tigers Jaw are still interrogating life’s joys and challenges, as well as the shifting perspectives that come with time.