Josh Kitchen

By: Josh Kitchen / February 3, 2026 Photo courtesy of Shintaro Sakamoto Anyone who has followed Shintaro Sakamoto’s career over the years knows that when he releases new music, they’re in for a truly inventive and exploratory sonic listening experience. From his early days in the highly influential psych-rock band Yura Yura Teikoku, to his solo work, which began in 2011, Sakamoto’s whimsical style and philosophical curiosities make his music all the more rich and infectious. And while he...

By: Josh Kitchen / February 2, 2026 Photo Credit: Marlowe Ostara On Death in the Business of Whaling , the sophomore album from Searows ’ Alec Duckart, the insular, muted bedroom-pop intimacy that defined his excellent debut Guard Dog  is cast far deeper—dragged into the darkest depths of the sea and sealed away in Davy Jones’ locker. In those reaches, Duckart has created a record that feels simultaneously grand and intimate, epic and poetic, drenched in gothic nautical imagery. Across nine...

By: Josh Kitchen / January 29, 2025 “Songs don’t come that often,” Bruce Springsteen said in 2024, talking about the last time he’d written new material. “I’ve gone two years without writing anything.” This was during promo for his latest documentary, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band , a film about the band’s first outing together in seven years—their longest break since Springsteen disbanded them in 1988. Springsteen’s last album with the E Street Band, 2020’s Letter to You...