Most of our stories about cult musicians who make an album or two and then seem to vanish are framed by grief, despair, and frayed ambition. Not so with Margo...
2020 release. After years spent looking out at landscapes and loved ones and an increasingly unstable world, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have turned their gaze inward, to their individual pasts...
The French Press levels up on everything that made Talk Tight such an immediate draw. Multi-tracked melodies which curl around one another, charging drums and addictive bass lines converge to...
Includes the album's single ""I'll Believe in Anything"" from the 2025 TV show Heated Rivalry, which introduced them to a vast new audience, making the song a bona fide viral...
Close It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known. It's like giving yourself a haircut or rearranging your room. You know your hair. You know your room. Here's the...
The nicest thing anyone has ever said to Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed, is that his band's debut album sounds like ""fucked-up Beatles."" Titled Their Prime, the LP does...
The music of Atlanta trio Omni has always swung fast and hit hard. And Souvenir, their fourth album and second for Sub Pop, packs their biggest punch yet. Following pandemic-induced...
The Milk Teeth EP compiles singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse's various non-album singles onto a physical release for the first time. It includes the song ""Good Looking,"" which, in mid-2022, exploded on...
Enter Networker, the new album by Omni and first with indie giant Sub Pop Records. Their sound is still defined by sparse drums, locked-in bass, blistering guitar, and nonchalant, yet...
2020 release. The Big Exercise, the second album by Dutch band The Homesick, and their first for Sub Pop, finds the group keenly second-guessing their core chemistry as a live...
There is this curious equilibrium to existence: In order to create balance, the universe must giveth, and the universe must taketh. Kyle Craft, with his now solidified backing band, dubbed...
Since breaking out in 2018, Chai have been associated with explosive joy. At their live shows, the Japanese four-piece of identical twins MANA (lead vocals and keys) and KANA (guitar),...
On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience...
Talk Tight is Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's first release, and it was originally released on CD in March of 2016 on Ivy League Records in the band's home country of...
Jesca Hoop wastes no time in making clear it's confidence, confrontation, and craftsmanship. The stark and reverberant title track opens the album with ""a fighting spirit,"" says Hoop, serving as...
It's tempting to think that you have all the answers, screaming your gospel every day with certainty and anger. Life isn't quite like that though, and the debut album from...
2020 release. Honus Honus (aka Ryan Kattner) has devoted his career to exploring the uncertainty between life's extremes, beauty, and ugliness, order and chaos. The songs on Dream Hunting in...
On December 26th, 2018, Emily Cross received an excited email from a friend: Brian Eno was talking about her band on BBC radio. ""At first I didn't think it was...
Nicholas Galanin is one of the most vital voices in contemporary art. Born in Sheet'ka (Sitka, Alaska), Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax^; he creates from his perspective as an Indigenous...
2020 release. Wolf Parade release Thin Mind, the group's fifth album for Sub Pop. The 10-track record was recorded by John Goodmanson at Risque Disque on Vancouver Island, BC, mixed...
2020 release. What happens when an abrasive rock trio trades guitars for synths, cranks up the beats and leans into the everyday anxieties of simply being a functioning human in...
Velocity Girl formed in 1989 or so at the University of Maryland outside Washington DC, and shortly thereafter settled on the lasting lineup of guitarist Archie Moore (Black Tambourine), guitarist...
Bria Salmena's debut solo album Big Dog chronicles a story of transformation-a deeply personal exploration of resilience and a declaration of artistic independence forged through collaboration. Long celebrated as the...
2016 release. Love Letter For Fire is a collaboration between Sam Beam (aka Iron and Wine) and singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop. The 13 track album features the singles ""Every Songbird Says""...
What Do We Do Now is the fifth solo studio LP recorded by J Mascis since 1996. Using his own Bisquiteen Studio in the waning days of the pandemic, J...
Lael Neale still has a flip phone and there were no screens involved in the creation of her new record Star Eaters Delight. The album is her second for Sub...
Lucky For You is Bully's most close-to-the-bone album yet. It's an album that's searing and unmistakably marked by it's creator's experiences, while still retaining the massive sound that Alicia Bognanno...
Dig deep enough inside yourself - start treating your body as your sanctuary rather than your enemy - and eventually you'll find yourself blooming right back out into the sun....
Technological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her...
You can't get Deeper if you're standing still. That's intentional, says the Chicago quartet's Nic Gohl. ""Does it feel good when you're listening to this song? Does your body want...
Without a brutal evaluation of their own becoming, TV Priest might have never made their second album. Heralded as the next big thing in post-punk, they were established as a...
The Japanese band Chai cast a spell on the world in 2017 with their debut album, PINK, a collection of songs that introduced their singular brand of playful pop. The...
Sub Pop is thrilled to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Providence, RI noise-rock legends Six Finger Satellite's debut album, The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird with a new, fully...
Buildings burning in every direction; macabre unknowns in your friendly neighbor's basement; undecided voters sharpening their pencils: under pressure we could call Kiwi Jr.'s Cooler Returns ""timely."" But what year...
CD edition. Nowadays, voice memos, videos, and pictures chronicle our lives in real-time. We trace where we've been and reveal where we're going. However, Suki Waterhouse catalogs the most intimate,...
Moaning is a band defined by it's duality. The abrasive post-punk trio comprised of LA DIY veterans, Sean Solomon, Pascal Stevenson, and Andrew MacKelvie, began nearly a decade after the...
While it was impossible to anticipate how massive GIVE UP would become, it was obvious in 2003 that these guys had made something special. Ten years on it's amazing to...
SUGAREGG roars from the speakers and jumpstarts both heart and mind. Like My Bloody Valentine after three double espressos, opener ""Add It On"" zooms heavenward within seconds, epitomizing band leader...
2018 release from singer/songwriter Greta Kline (AKA Frankie Cosmos). Greta is joined on the 18-track new album by David Maine, Lauren Martin, and Luke Pyenson. The album was recorded with...
Daniel Boeckner understands the grit and gravel that accumulates in the heart and that it takes an unwavering courage to crack through that clutter and burrow to the other side....
2021 release. Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to...
ONE BEAT is the sixth studio album from Sleater-Kinney, originally released on August 20, 2002 by Kill Rock Stars. It was produced by John Goodman son and recorded between March...
American Standard begins with a shock. Vocalist Michael Berdan stands alone,screaming, ""A part of me, but it can't be me. Oh God, it can't."" It all starts with anadmission. Beneath...
On the heels of 2012's critically acclaimed debut LP Under the Pale Moon, and Earth Has Doors EP comes the sophomore full length from Wymond Miles, guitarist of San Francisco...
Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent...
The Path of the Clouds, Marissa Nadler's ninth solo album, is the most stylistically adventurous, lyrically transfixing, and melodically sophisticated collection of songs in her already rich discography. Gripped by...
Nika Roza Danilova has been recording music as Zola Jesus for more than a decade. For the majority of that time, she's been on Sacred Bones Records, and Okovi marks...
When S Krysh Nashikh Domov, the debut album by Molchat Doma, was released in 2017, it announced a bold new voice in underground music. The album found a passionate audience...
Readjusting the Locks is the first Institute album written across the country, with half the band relocating from Texas to NYC. The band has seamlessly incorporated more '77 rock n'...
On Chrystia Cabral's fourth album as SPELLLING, the Bay Area artist transformsher acclaimed avant-pop project into a mirror. Cabral's lyrics for Portrait of MyHeart tackle love, intimacy, anxiety, and alienation,...
Belarusian post-punk / synth pop group Molchat Doma have always exuded the kind ofbrutalist aesthetic of the architecture that adorns their album art. It's cold, gray, imposing,industrial-and yet there are...
In the last decade, Daniel Davies has become a lauded composer of atmospheric,synth-heavy instrumental music-for film and TV scores, alongside JohnCarpenter on the director's Lost Themes albums, and on solo...
Wymond's previous EP, Earth Has Doors was about intangible and esoteric concepts; the music drifted beautifully in somewhat of an oceanic, boundless state. For the LP, it was very important...
Caleb Landry Jones is a continual creator. The Texan born star found fame as an actor - you'll recognise him from key roles in X-Men: First Class, Three Billboards Outside...
When asked to describe the circumstances that influenced her beautifully fraught new work, Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson - better known simply as Anika - quickly articulates a set of feelings...
The origin of Chrystabell and David Lynch's album Cellophane Memories comes from a vision that David experienced during a nighttime walk through a forest of tall trees, over the tops...
Squrl - Ep #260 (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sacred Bones. A rock release from 2017.Tracklist: 5 tracks Solstice The Dark Rift Equinox Gates of Ishtar (Equinox Remix By...
Caleb Landry Jones, the enigmatic and multi-talented artist, is set to release his highly anticipated fourth album, Hey Gary, Hey Dawn, on the esteemed Sacred Bones label.Renowned as a multi-instrumentalist...
The long-awaited fourth full-length by Föllakzoid isn't merely a recalibration for the band. It is a multidimensional reconsideration of what the process of songwriting, performance, and creating a work of...
Experimental lute player Jozef Van Wissem and acclaimed film director and musician Jim Jarmusch have a working relationship that dates back to 2006, when they ran into each other on the street in New...
The earth rotates, seasons change... there is but one long day... Time is a beguiling, indistinct entity... sometimes standing still, sometimes bendingback upon itself with premonitions or memories of the...
Don't let the prestigious acting career fool you, Caleb Landry Jones is a bonafide musical maverick. And on his forthcoming release Gadzooks Vol. 2 he places himself in a lineage...
Alan Vega's name is synonymous with unfettered, tireless creativity. Beginning in the late 1950s, when he was a fine art student at Brooklyn College, through his years playing in Suicide,...
Pop 1280 - Paradise (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sacred Bones. A rock release from 2016.Tracklist: 9 tracks Pyramids on Mars Phantom Freighter In Silico Chromidia USS Iss Paradise...
Cheena - Spend The Night With (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sacred Bones. A rock release from 2016.Tracklist: 11 tracks Cry for Help Fever Car Jane Electric Snoopy Gang...
Wymond Miles - Call by Night (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sacred Bones. A rock release from 2016.Tracklist: 9 tracks Summer Rains Protection Solomon's Song Call By Night Bride...
At first listen, The Practice of Love, Jenny Hval's seventh full-length album, unspools with an almost deceptive ease. Across eight tracks, filled with arpeggiated synth washes and the kind of...
Jenny Hval's new album, Apocalypse, girl, is out June 2015 via Sacred Bones. It's the follow-up to her 2013 LP Innocence is Kinky and 2014's Meshes of Voice, her collaborative...
But for their boundary-smashing debut long-player, they've incorporated everything from acoustic guitars to proto-punk psych excursions, even stretching their songs out to Krautrock lengths when necessary. Brown's lyrics on Catharsis...
Led Er Est emerged from a series of jam sessions that core members Shawn O'Sullivan and Sam de la Rosa started having in early 07, using bass guitar and some...
Since 2010, Elias Bender Ronnenfelt (Iceage, Va) has used the Marching Church moniker to a variety of musical ends, both live and recorded. However, the project as it exists on...
After Xmal Deutschland's success with four albums on cult labels such as 4AD, Huwe abandoned music to pursue her visual art career. But leaving her legacy in the past was...
Indigo Sparke's majestic second full-length album Hysteria is a sweeping work, one that possesses a rare, reflective power. On it, she examines love, loss, her history, and the emotional upheaval...
Largely recognized as their breakthrough album, Khanate was confidentenough by the two-song, forty-minute Capture & Release (2005) to peel back it'slayers of thick mossy droneand reveal the minimalist underpinnings, a...
Collision Drive is Alan Vega's second solo studio album, originally released in1981. If his debut laid the groundwork for a raw, minimalist take on rockabillyand blues, Collision Drive expands the...
Slug Guts - Playin' In Time With The Deadbeat (CD). Available on CD. Released by Sacred Bones. A rock release from 2012.Tracklist: 12 tracks Scum Old Black Sweats Suckin Down...
Dream Police is an American musical production by Nick Chiericozzi and Mark Perro. The project began in 2010 as a reservoir for ideas which had overflowed from the Men's drain...
The last we heard from Marissa Nadler, she was soaring through The Path ofthe Clouds and it's companion EP, The Wrath of the Clouds. Now, on her tenthofficial full-length record,...
""I think most of it takes place in dreams,"" Caleb Landry Jones says of his debut solo album, The Mother Stone. ""I'm talking more about dreams than I am about...
Benjamin John Power's newest solo offering as Blanck Mass, Dumb Flesh, was written, produced and recorded in a number of different locations over the space of a year. It began...
Anika channels her frustration, anger, and confusion with the world into her third album, Abyss. Recorded live to tape at Berlin's legendary Hansa Studios, the album captures raw energy with...
Devour marks the fourth full-length record from Margaret Chardiet's project Pharmakon and her most intense output to date. Like her previous albums, Devour comes with a strong concept that is...
Ora Cogan's music is alchemical: part instinct, part ritual, and always born from the edges where life feels sharpest. Hard Hearted Woman, her debut for Sacred Bones, arrives as a...
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible - CDBrigitte Calls Me Baby's sophomore album, Irreversible perfectly captures their live energy and acclaimed songwriting. Produced by Yves & Lawrence Rothman (Blondshell, Yves...
Civic / TAKEN BY FORCE - The Melbourne-based five-piece Civic return with their visceral new sophomore album 'Taken By Force' - aptly described by the band as ""1984 meets Endless...
Hailed by Stereogum as ""the most important band in modern shoegaze,"" They Are Gutting a Body of Water (TAGABOW) made their name approaching the genre with an experimental edge. LOTTO...
2020 release. Devotion, the second album from Margaret Glaspy, is a collection of twelve love songs, reflecting the phases of romance -appreciation and frustration, doubt and adoration. While Glaspy has...
Cordovas' 2020 album Destiny Hotel is a work of wild poetry and wide-eyed abandon, set to a glorious collision of folk, country and groove-heavy rock-and-roll. A major creative milestone for...
Welcome 2 Club XIII (the 14th DBT studio album) marks a sharp departure from the trenchant commentary of The Unraveling and The New OK (both released in 2020). The title...
2019 release. South Of Reality, The Claypool Lennon Delirium's epic sophomore album might be just the antidote this sick world needs. Music so potent it could repel an asteroid impact...
While touring in support of their Grammy-winning album Mettavolution, Rodrigo y Gabriela performed the album in full every night at their nearly one hundred shows around the world. Mettavolution Live...
2020 release. Drive-By Truckers released The Unraveling on Jan 31st 2020 and set out for what was supposed to be a full year of touring. Needless to say, it did...
2020 release. Drive-By Truckers is kicking off the new election year with The Unraveling, their first new album in 3 1/2 years (the longest space between DBT albums ever). Those...
2020 release. Old 97's return with Twelfth, their aptly titled 12th studio album, recorded this spring in Nashville, Tennessee between a tornado and a pandemic. 2016's Graveyard Whistling took the...
