Daily Newsletter, June 16, 2025

Summer officially arrives on Friday night, mere hours after most of these albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues, cassettes and steaming releases. So I guess technically these are the final 430-plus releases of Spring. Make what you will of that. Or don’t; it doesn’t really matter to me. Anyway, here’s […]

Chorley's British Birds return with album number 2 - a wonderful collection of garage-pop tinged with northern psych.

As someone who’s written books about both the history of heavy music and the creative genius behind ‘We All Stand Together’, I was more than hoppy to discover the ideal Venn-diagram band for me: FROGLORD. They’re an amphibian-based conceptual project who perhaps ought to play hip hop but actually specialise in sludgy stoner doom. Realising […]

It's easy for someone to have enough of their bandmates after a while, but sometimes animosity is so strong it causes artists to walk out on the whole industry.

After The Beatles broke up in 1970, they hardly played together again. Except when Paul McCartney and John Lennon made a bootleg album.

Wouldn't it be nice if Brian Wilson was still with us?

Have you started putting together your summer reading list yet? You’d better get on it; if this bumper crop of releases is a sign of things to come, it’s going to be a busy season. Read all about ’em:   Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, & The Women Who Built Pop’s Shiniest Decade By Nora […]

The Eternaut is based on a popular comic strip series and shot in Buenos Aires itself, but how much do fans love it?

A new Monday Morning Brew playlist ft. The Barr Brothers, Clifton Chenier, Eve Adams, Iona Zajac, KASAI, Pegg & Van Dyke Parks, Ben LaMar Gay, David Byrne & more.

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