By: Josh Kitchen / April 23, 2026 Photo Credit: Charlie Weinmann On White Denim’s 13th studio album, simply titled 13, James Petralli is reflecting on this crazy thing called life. I’m talking to Petralli over Zoom, and while I’m cooped up in my apartment, he’s in a comfy lounge chair in his backyard, his pup Sergio by his side. It’s beautiful in LA—I can see it out my window—but Petralli is the luckier one of us right now. And if he looks lucky, you can rest assured there’s

By: Josh Kitchen / March 27, 2026 Photo Credit: Rosie Sco Sitting across from Felix Mackenzie-Barrow and Tiger Cohen-Towell of Nottingham band Divorce, you wouldn’t know they had just wrapped an interview with Sir Elton John, who told them their debut record, Drive to Goldenhammer , currently sits as Disc 1 in his five-disc CD player at home. The band is about to play the first Los Angeles show of their career, fresh off support dates with Sam Smith in San Francisco — a city

By: Josh Kitchen / March 20, 2026 Photo Credit : Studio Förgätmigej It’s rare that a debut record sounds like a band already a few albums in, but that’s what Girl Scout’s Brink feels like. Across the record, from the three-piece Swedish act—comprised of Emma Jansson (guitar, vocals), Per Lindberg (drums), and Kevin Hamring (guitar/bass)—there’s a real sense of confidence in how it’s contained, from the way it opens (literally with a track called “Intro”) to the way it closes.

By: Josh Kitchen / March 11, 2026 Photo Credit: Dean Chalkley “Trixies was our gold bar that we found in a rubbish tip,” Squeeze founding member Glenn Tilbrook told me, rediscovering his and fellow Squeeze founding member Chris Difford’s first songwriting venture together — the rock opera Trixies . In it, each song tells a different story set in a fictional, but not too distantly recognizable nightclub — one that could exist in any big city, with rainy puddles reflecting neon