New Music Friday: Fog Pop, Gloomy Post-Punk, Sexy Fingerstyle
July 31 releases include Ed Askew, sachi's mirror, Dawuna, Amanar De Kidal, Wayne Everett, Dry Wedding, Tokoro Wohnen, Mopar Stars, Sir Richard Bishop
New Music Friday: Mind-Bending Metal, Philly Psych-Folk
July 24 releases include Josaleigh Pollett, Sallow Moth, Little Gold, Woodwose, Nu Jazz, Ripper, ZAVAR
New Music Friday: Celestial Travelogue, Crystalline Grunge
July 17 releases include Helado Tropical, Quicksand, Kate Carr, Beastlor, Cinder Well, Tiger Bear Wolf, Left to Die
New Music Friday: Waffle House Rock, Frog Slam
July 10 releases include Ultra Lights, Hew, Baby Rose, Sad13, Snag, Frog Mallet.
New Music Friday: Rust Belt Metal, Euphoric Minimalism
June 26 releases include Zao, Downtown Boys, Steve Gunn, Dylan Mattingly.
New Music Friday: Queered Hymns, Heavy Metal Lifers
June 19 releases include Wild Up, Destructor, Birthday in Texas, Styrofoam Winos.
New Music Friday: True Microtonal Math-Rock, Brass Ambient
June 12 releases include Horse Lords, Kalia Vandever, Goetia and Diles Que No Me Maten.
New Music Friday: Symphonic Synth-Funk, Lysergic Dream-Pop
June 5 releases include Suzanne Ciani, Tara Clerkin Trio, Lifted and Blood Incantation.
A Home for Everyone: 20 Years in D.C.
Two decades of my favorite D.C. punk, hardcore, experimental and electronic music.
New Music Friday: Scraggly Lullabies, Wooly Drone
May 22 releases include Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti, Marisa Anderson, Birth (Defects), One Leg One Eye.
New Music Friday: Gossamer Grooves, Blown-Out Bliss
The Viking's Choice Guide to May 15 releases includes the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Touch Girl Apple Blossom and Khun Narin.
New Music Friday: Norwegian Primitive Metal, Cybernetic Salad
It's the Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, featuring Darkthrone, Unwed Sailor, Amy Grant and Fire-Toolz.
New Music Friday: Ancient Zither Jazz, Soft-Rock Minimalism
DoYoen Kim, American Football, Six Organs of Admittance. It's the Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, May 1!
What's Your Spring Soundtrack?
Moonshine, music and the mountains.
What Does Catharsis Mean in Music?
Two new albums explore catharsis in similar, yet different ways: 'Slowly Melting' by Janel Leppin and 'An Undying Love for a Burning World' by Neurosis.
I Never Thought I'd Hear Steve Albini's Fugazi Album
Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, are now available officially for the first time. Had to take a...
Hayley Williams Keeps Showing Up in My Dreams
Hayley Williams, forever a fortifying presence online, IRL and in my dreams. Plus, a new mixtape.
Noise-Rock Crash Course
Noise rock can ruin your life; this list will absolutely destroy it.
I Finally Found My Song to Start the Year
Music has a way of finding you when you need it. My song to start 2026, plus a new mixtape.
Do You Remember What the Music Meant?
For the past two decades, Pretty Make Girls Make Graves' "Speakers Push the Air" has been my song. A song about the power of music, written from the...
