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Nixon Boyd – “How I Know I’m Home”

Since 2007, Nixon Boyd has been playing guitar in the Canadian indie rock band Hollerado. Last month, he announced his debut solo album Every Time We Turn A Corner and shared “Trouble Of Your Own.” Now, he’s back with “How I Know I’m Home.” “How I Know I’m Home” is melancholy,

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Oakwood – “Fields Behind The House”

In 2015, Oakwood shared their debut EP Summer, which contained three tracks of vehement Midwest emo. The Texas-based band then fell into obscurity and the music was taken off streaming platforms. A few years ago, the group reunited and reuploaded the songs, which gained

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Hammok – “Tap Water”

Norwegian noise rockers Hammok recently announced their new album When Does This Place Become Our Scene, due out this June. Its lead single “The Scene” is a promising one, as is today’s follow-up “Tap Water,” a song vocalist/guitarist Tobias Osland explains is about “self

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Elder – “Capture/Release”

I’ve been listening the the Berlin-via-Massachusetts crew Elder for a long time, and I still mostly think of them as a doom metal band. But when you hear the opening of Elder’s new track “Capture/Release,” it’s clear that that’s not the case anymore. Elder have been moving in

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Hyd – “Freak”

“I’m like, ‘This girl is a freak’/ Yeah, she’s just like me.” That’s a great pop lyric! Hayden Dunham, known professionally as Hyd, is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, and their latest solo exhibit, an installation called Never Is Over, opens tomorrow at New York’s

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Opus Kink – “The Head Tree” (Feat. The New Eves)

Opus Kink are a Brighton band who have been making a lot of press noise, and they’ll release their debut album The Sweet Goodbye this summer. Their sound is hard to describe. It’s a churning and vaguely countrified take on post-punk, with deep and sonorous baritone vocals and

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Ibibio Sound Machine – “Return To Sender”

It’s been a couple of years since Ibibio Sound Machine, the London dance-funk band led by the Nigerian-British singer Eno Williams, released their most recent album Pull The Rope. Today, the group returns with a hard-hitting, exuberant new single called “Return To Sender.” It’s

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Lots Of Hands – “Grapevine”

Billy Woodhouse and Elliot Dryden, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne duo known as Lots Of Hands, released their Fire Talk debut into a pretty room early last year. They’ve since seen their 2020 album mistake go TikTok-viral, leading to a streaming surge and a deluxe reissue. Now they’re

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Shinichi Atobe Was Keeping Quiet Long Before Silent Way

For decades, Shinichi Atobe was considered shadowy. Until last May, the 50-something Japanese artist had not been interviewed. He seldom performs, save for the occasional appearance at a space near his apartment in Saitama — such as WWW in Tokyo or the FFKT festival. “When I

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