“Music” Archives

The Cleveland band returns after a six-year-long absence.

The Sufjan Stevens-produced album offers some welcome solace for these chaotic and troubling times.

The post-punk quintet’s excellent debut album was released last September.

Critics and pundits weigh in on the celebrated rapper’s themes, metaphors, and song selections.

The Polish band’s first single in over three years is another slice of dreamy alternative rock filled with loss and longing.

Proof the German producer has the art of ambient dub techno down to a science.

An expansive and unpredictable post-rock album that renews my faith in the genre.

The Arizona-based indie poppers return with a classic-sounding single from their upcoming album.

The synth-punk classic turned 25 last year.

The For Against frontman, who is currently in hospice for stage 4 cancer, is releasing a new solo album later this year.

The Philadelphia outfit pummels your eardrums in the finest classic shoegaze fashion.

Soulwhirlingsomewhere’s Michael Plaster returns with a new album filled with lush, evocative ambience and atmospherics.

The Kansas City post-punk band release a long-lost EP from 2002.

The alternative rock group was fronted by the late Michael Knott in the mid-to-late ’90s.

One of the band’s most lush and cinematic songs gets the lullaby treatment.

This unlikely compilation reveals some cavernous new depths to The Cure’s already massive influence.

The Modesto-based shoegaze band’s latest album was self-released on Christmas Day 2024.

Released at the end of 2024, Sault’s most recent album is a cornucopia of classic soul, jazz, and R&B sounds.

The “soul-shoegaze-alternative rock” band delivers a blistering performance for KEXP.

The year brought us ambient classics, otherworldly jams, the return of goth and synth-pop icons, thoughtful post-punk, existential shoegaze, and more.