By: Josh Kitchen / March 5, 2026 Photo Credit: Raz Azraai // @dancefloormurder On their new album, Reality Star — their best one yet — Surfbort want you to have a good time. They also want you to throw fists and middle fingers up to the government. They want you to eat a hot dog. They want you to dance, make out with someone, touch some grass, or even bake a pie. What all these things have in common is the revolutionary ideas behind them. In our current barrage of fascist Tru

By: Josh Kitchen / February 26, 2026 Photo Credit: Sam Angeletti Jack Rutter, aka Ritt Momney, hasn’t released new music since 2021’s excellent Sunny Boy  — that is, until he surprise-dropped the chill and vibey, “GUNNA” at the end of January this year. The five-year gap isn’t due to not wanting to create, however. Disillusioned by the capitalistic and oppressive demands of the modern record industry, Momney fell out of love with making music. It started to feel more like a j

By: Josh Kitchen / February 24, 2026 Photo Credit: Logan White “ I’m drastic / I’m magic / You know this / You see it / I move you ,” Bella Litsa sings on “My Blue Eyes,” a centerpiece off her aptly titled debut album Drasticism . The track builds slowly, Litsa pondering the mysteries of love, her voice rich and cloaked in a masterful Auto-Tune glow reminiscent of Caroline Polachek. At the midpoint, the song transforms into something else entirely, abruptly erupting into a f

By: Josh Kitchen / February 19, 2026 Photo Credit: El Hardwick “I love you, I love you, I’ve known you forever / Your fire was and always will be / I learned your name but missed its meaning / When I didn’t know how to feel / Can’t wait to meet you for the first time again,” Rhode Island–born singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame croons on the title track that opens his debut album of the same name, For the First Time, Again. It’s a tender ballad that gives the listener the first

By: Josh Kitchen with camera assistance from: Giselle Libby / February 10, 2025 I’m sitting across from absurdist singer-songwriter Dev Lemons in one of the newest smash burger restaurants in Los Angeles — the futuristic, alien UFO–styled Burger 3000. Lemons is wearing a meat suit and meat beret — literally a full-body costume resembling a human muscular system, her eyes and mouth only visible through cut holes in the face. Sitting next to her is Abby Kenna, a fellow singer-

By: Josh Kitchen / December 22, 2025 Photo Credit: Bob Sweeney SNACKTIME are a pride of Philadelphia.  Formed in 2020, the funk and soul collective began playing free outdoor shows during COVID, coming together to fuse eclectic musical tastes, vibrant personalities, and Philly’s spirit of brotherly love — showing up for their community when people needed connection most. That ethos defines SNACKTIME : a band that truly has something for everybody, without sacrificing serious

By: Josh Kitchen / December 18, 2025 Hannah Cohen is sitting in her Catskills mountain cabin, furnished with rustic stonework and warm wood ceilings. She’s in a cozy knit sweater, her pup Jan—short for Janis Joplin—snoozing just off to her left. Outside, the property is covered in a blanket of snow, pine and hemlock poking through a wintry dreamscape. The air is crisp and pure. This is the world where Cohen wrote and recorded her first album in over five years, Earthstar Moun

By: Josh Kitchen / December 16, 2025 Photo Credit: Kali Spitzer Listening to Ken Pomeroy talk about her own work, you’re struck by her humility. She’s 23, but her music has already appeared on two major television shows — including one she also acts in alongside Ethan Hawke — she’s performed with legends like Wanda Jackson, John Craigie, and Iron & Wine, and she even sang and appeared in one of the biggest films of 2024, Twisters . Her sophomore album, Cruel Joke , released i

By: Josh Kitchen / November 20, 2025 Photo Credit: David O'Donohue You've probably seen Diana Silvers' face. From the cool and mysterious Hope in Olivia Wilde’s coming-of-age hit Booksmart , to Maggie in the horror-thriller Ma —co-starring Octavia Spencer in the titular role about a group of teenagers who befriend a lonely older woman only for things to spiral into something much darker—Silvers has already made a name for herself in film, TV, and modeling. Diana Silvers - Fro

Photo Credit: Apela Bell By: Josh Kitchen / November 4, 2025 “Everything had been flipped upside down, my heart ripped out of my chest, and I didn’t know how I could keep living.” New Zealand singer-songwriter Janine has long made a name for herself through honest, reflective pop music—spanning introspective ballads to dance-driven anthems her fans can’t get enough of. But a year ago, she faced a devastating loss when her father suddenly passed away. In this new normal, she r

Colin Blunstone On Sixty Years Of The Zombies By: Josh Kitchen / October 28, 2025 Photo Credit: Andrew Eccles It’s the time of the season / When love runs high / What’s your name, who’s your daddy? Is he rich like me? Those lyrics from "Time Of The Season," By The Zombies tickle my brain in a way that so many other songs I love just don’t . You can hear the sultry drums and smooth “aahh’s” sung by lead singer Colin Blunstone, accompanied by Rod Argent’s neon-tinged kaleidosco

By: Josh Kitchen / October 24, 2025 “When I give someone my time, that means everything.” On her new album Describe, Hannah Jadagu opens up about love, growth, and realizing her time is the most precious thing she can give. Photo Credit: Sam Wilbert “I love being around the people I care about, and when I give someone my time, that means everything. My friends know I’m an introvert, so when I say, ‘I hope you get all my time,’  I mean it.” This declaration from Hannah Jadagu 

By: Josh Kitchen / October 16, 2025 Photo credit: Charlie Hyman "These songs represent a period I was growing out of; I could feel myself changing, and I needed to release them before moving on," the emerging Brooklyn-based alt-indie singer/songwriter JULESY told me about her debut LP, Flip The Bed. At just eight tracks and under half an hour, Flip The Bed offers a glimpse into an artist in metamorphosis. Her first EP, The Current Self, was aptly named—recorded as JULESY was

By: Josh Kitchen / October 10, 2025 Photo Credit: Lara Callahan “Everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here...

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By: Josh Kitchen / August 18, 2025 Photo by: Natalie Piserchio In 2023, Stereogum released their 40 Best New Bands of 2023 list. Looking...