Daily Newsletter, October 26, 2023

Intimate relatable record from UK based outfit. It has been four years now since we had a chance to hear something from Matt Hegarty and his Matthew & The Atlas. Now, Hegarty and the band retur…

Review: Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Review: Never2Late’s single “Love Is Wise” – Release date October 25, 2023 There is quite some significance in the moniker Yorkshire UK songwriter and guitarist SteveB took – [...]

Our intrepid reporter, JR Moores, investigates the latest psych and noise-rock offerings, reviewing new releases from King Gizzard, Silver Apples and Makoto Kawabata, Carlton Melton and more

A discussion that needs to be had.

Years before I ever saw Olympia, Washington I had some idea of what the town was like. That idea mostly came from spending too much time with music magazines. I knew Olympia as the hometown of riot grrrl and Kill Rock Stars and K Records and the International Pop Underground, the place where Kathleen Hannah wrote “Kurt smells like teen spirit” on a wall somewhere. When I finally spent a week in Olympia, many years ago, I did get some of that imagined version of the town. There was a great thrift store, a strong community radio station, and a highway-exit sign for “Sleater-Kinney” that got me all fired up. But Olympia was not the beautiful little cool-kid enclave that existed in my head — or, in any case, Olympia wasn’t just that. It was something darker, too.

MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on the strange reasons we fall in love with artists, and how hard that is to measure…

Thirty-two years ago this week, one of the best albums of all time dropped. Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend has been called “fuzzy power pop perfection” by Paste Magazine, and I wholeheartedly…

The 1970s were the best decade for movies — especially sleazy movies.

Magical realism is a literary style in which an otherwise seemingly realistic narrative is infused with the fantastical, supernatural, and mythological. Here are 5 of its writers.

As the songwriter’s tour of her home country supporting her latest LP EMOTION SICKNESS winds down, she shares 12 songs by her local musical heroes.