By: Josh Kitchen / June 12, 2026 Photo Credit: Lucy Black “When we sort of unlocked that we could do it better together, and liked doing it together, that felt like discovering treasure for the first time,” Maia Ciambriello tells me of her and Sasha Goldberg's songwriting partnership. Ciambriello and Goldberg have known each other since childhood, but they've been writing music together since college under the name The Army, The Navy. Like members of a tactical unit, they've

By: Josh Kitchen / June 10, 2026 Photo Credit: Sandra Ebert On the title track of their debut album, Johnny's Dreamworld, Sophie Harris—lead singer and songwriter of London four-piece Modern Woman—draws listeners into a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Slippery, tense, and propelled by a hypnotic groove, the song unfolds with a slow-motion swagger that's mysterious as it is unsettling. Across the album's nine tracks and 33-minute runtime, frenetic guitar solos abo

By : Josh Kitchen / June 5, 2026 Photo Credit : Bảo Ngô I often liken artists with long careers and dozens of albums to the life of a tree—you get to watch them grow and change. Sometimes they lose a branch here and there, but the ones that stand the longest often bear the sweetest fruit. Today, of Montreal release their 20th album, Aethermead, and witnessing Kevin Barnes guide the band through enough transformations to fill several careers—while constantly reinventing both

By: Josh Kitchen / May 28, 2026 Photo Credit: Rachel Briggs “Simpleton is about attempting optimism in a world that feels increasingly hard to be optimistic about,” says Ryan Kaiser of Yot Club. But, he goes on to say, “No matter how soulless and bleak the modern world can feel, people still manage to carve out meaningful lives and create beautiful things.” That idea — a hopeful refusal to simply accept the world for what it is — sits at the core of Yot Club’s third, and fine