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

By: Josh Kitchen / May 15, 2026 “Guitar pick in my pocket at the marketing all-hands,” Nymphlord sings on “Garden,” the opening track on her debut album Shedding Velvet, out today on Lauren Records. Anyone who’s ever sat through one of those corporate “all-hands” meetings — the office colloquialism for a company-wide staff meeting — knows that if you’re in one too long, there comes a point where it can feel like your soul is slowly being vacuumed out of your body. It’s a line

By: Josh Kitchen / May 7, 2026 Photo Credit: Connie Swift “That became my mantra,” girli’s Milly Toomey told me earlier this spring ahead of the release of her new album It’s Just My Opinion, out tomorrow. girli has quietly become one of the most exciting alt-pop voices to emerge from the North London scene in years, crafting self-aware, genre-defying, in-your-face anthems packed with massive hooks, while never shying away from messages of advocacy, acceptance, and the transf