Daily Newsletter, July 8, 2024

Hey Ringo Starr: They say it’s your birthday! Well, it’s not my birthday too. But I’m glad it’s your birthday. Happy birthday to you — one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighty-four! Yowza! That’s a lot of birthdays. Better sit down and take your time perusing this list of the 370-plus albums, EPs, singles, […]

From HNNY to Kokoko, we look at the best new indie albums released this week as the advent of a Labour government perhaps beckons a different musical future.

From Neon Indian to Eurythmics to Soft Cell to Erasure to Depeche Mode, here are our picks for the 50 greatest synth-pop albums of all time.

Original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett died on July 7, 2006. This is the story of the rise and decline of a psychedelic icon

These four psychedelic rock bands only released one album, and they've since become cult icons in the psych-rock world.

Exploring ten albums that feature no bad songs, including works by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Serge Gainsbourg, PJ Harvey, The Stooges and Jeff Buckley.

Scottish legend Edwyn Collins has had a long, successful career, but has only bothered the worldwide charts once. "A Girl Like You" can take many forms.

SAULT are back and more mysterious than ever. The UK collective performed their first-ever show in December last year, and today they surprise-dropped their eleventh studio album, which was previewed at that concert.

There are only a handful of new titles hitting the shelves next week. But as they say, anything more than a handful is a waste. And according to the 19980s silver screen classic Weird Science, anything more than a handful and you’re risking a sprained tongue. But that barely even makes sense. Anyway, here’s the […]

'Marry Me, Archie' by Alvvays is the perfect indie song, in perfectly keeping with the genre's overall emphasis on authenticity and self-reflection.