DEAD OCEANS

Dub Thompson's first collection of songs slyly unties the shoes of genre and convention, shapeshifts mischievously, and tramples on the promises delivered on the name itself; there are only 8 songs.

Khruangbin's fourth studio album, A La Sala ("To the Room" in Spanish), is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and doing so on your own terms. It continues the mystery and sanctity that...

Akron/Family spent the end of 2009 and half of 2010 exploring the future of sound. Upon miraculous resuscitation of the original AKAK hard drive, their new album, S/T II: THE COSMIC BIRTH AND JOURNEY...

Superstar Will Smith gives the performance of his career as boxing legend Muhammad Ali in a visually amazing epic drama from Academy Award(r) nominated director Michael Mann. Muhammad Ali thrilled...

Califone is at the peak of it's powers on All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, it's sixth song based album. The long-awaited follow-up to 2006's acclaimed Roots and Crowns, the album is the strongest...

Durand Jones & the Indications aren't looking backwards. Helmed?by foil vocalists in Durand Jones and drummer Aaron Frazer, the?Indications conjure the dynamism of Jackie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield,?AND...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., Chastity Belt's Annie Truscott descended into a state of mourning. Her plan had been to join her partner, Jay Som's Melina Duterte, as violinist on tour, a...

If indie rock has become, for the most part, an endlessly rotating set of established signifiers in 2009, then Nurses' second album, Apple's Acre, is perfectly at home in it all, skipping amid...

Scowl is a band that sounds exactly like their name implies. Venomous, fierce, antagonistic. A sneer not to be crossed. Over the last five years, the Santa Cruz, California, band has firmly planted...

Scowl is a band that sounds exactly like their name implies. Venomous, fierce, antagonistic. A sneer not to be crossed. Over the last five years, the Santa Cruz, California, band has firmly planted...