Rostam’s third album, American Stories, is his first new music in over five years. The Iranian- American artist and acclaimed producer returns with a record that explores his life across dual cultural worlds. The music weaves together elements of Americana and Persian traditions, blending finger- picked guitars, pedal steel, and strummed chords with microtonal Persian melodies. “That marriage of east and west felt like music that I needed to make for this album.” Interweaving his own experiences, Rostam's lyrics are a collection of stories and reflections, “The Weight” takes place on college campuses in America in the spring of 2025. In “Forgive is to Know,” Rostam processes real events and the act of songwriting itself. Rostam makes sense of the end of a relationship in “Hardy ft. Clairo” and contends with humanity’s uncertain future. The result is a record that feels deeply individual yet unmistakably American. “Ultimately I hope listeners find comfort in this record and I want to leave people with a feeling of optimism.”

Ever since the 16-year-old high school friends formed a band back in 2013, Ghosts on TV has brought beauty and wistfulness to the Finnish alternative scene, evolving from a promising indie band to blissful walls of sound, melancholic minimalism and delicate atmosphere. The Helsinki-based group has been described as “post-rock”, “beautiful shoegaze” or “northern art-rock”, in the biggest music media of Finland and in blogs around the world. Drawing comparisons to bands like Radiohead, GY!BE, Mogwai and The National, Ghosts on TV has stood out from their Finnish contemporaries, doing proudly their own thing while touring actively in Finland and a couple of times abroad (USA, Europe). The group now announces the first single from their anticipated, forthcoming third studio album Iridescent. The single is called “CCTV”.

It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a song like “Maps” or “Zero” or the latest addition to their canon, “Spitting off the Edge of the World featuring Perfume Genius” — an epic shot-to-the- heart of pure YYYs beauty and power.

Recorded during her sold-out world tour, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE) is available exclusively as a one-time pressing on 100% recycled vinyl, uniquely colored with a lenticular insert.On May 8, 2026, BILLIE EILISH - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D) brings an invigorating new concert experience to the big screen from one of the most celebrated and acclaimed artists of the 21st century. Presented in immersive 3D, the film is directed by Academy Award® winners James Cameron and Billie Eilish.

The legendary Slovenian group’s first original studio album since 2014’s Spectre, Musick - intensely pop, yet intensely Laibach. Available via Mute on limited edition neon pink vinyl and CD.

The quietest voices don’t just endure — sometimes they deepen. For a band once defined by understatement, American Football has become something increasingly rare: one whose stature has grown less by nostalgia than through patience, self-interrogation and the long view. Since reuniting in 2014 after a decade-plus dormancy,

Throughout, the harmonies are green and lush, and the melodies are plucked out of some perfect pop songbook, and there’s baroque, jangle pop, sensational production, DIY rough-and-readiness and all-in-all, we find ourselves bathing in the whole thing, thrilled that they’ve blessed us with an invite into their universe.

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada. We acknowledge the support of Ontario Creates, the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Government of Ontario.

Acknowledge Kindness expands The Reds, Pinks And Purples’ distinctive brand of emotional pop, music built for the quiet hours and the restless mind. Evolving naturally from the heavier, melancholic indie rock of previous releases, the mood here feels more exposed and reflective, blossoming into lush dreamscapes that recall the bittersweet sorrow of The Cure or the tenderly gloomy transcendence of California by American Music Club.

Merge Records has announced a definitive Record Store Day 2026 vinyl reissue of the 2002 collaboration between Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair, titled Words of Wisdom and Hope. The work represents a significant stylistic departure for both parties, merging Glasgow’s signature jangle-pop harmonies with Fair’s idiosyncratic songwriting approach. The collaboration results in a unique sonic balance between polished pop landscapes and raw, earnest indie-rock, drawing comparisons to the transition between proto-punk innocence and sophisticated alternative arrangements.

Built around the songwriting talents of Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi, Lush successfully defined a myriad of 90s scenes such as shoegaze, dream pop and Britpop before they disbanded in 1998.

Brussels based Limite embodies a unique blend of contemporay jazz roots with indie alternative rock, no wave, and avant-folk, drawing influences from Blonde Redhead, Big Thief, Daniel Rossen, Joanna Newsom, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Deerhoof, Sonic Youth, Jim O' Rourke.

Explore the album "Wishing Moon" by Wintersleep, a must-have in the alternative rock genre. This LP, released by Dine Alone Music Inc., invites you into a captivating musical journey filled with depth and emotion.

After releasing their 2010 album Treats on Mom+Pop–which became an indie classic, deemed 'Best New Music' by Pitchfork, 'phenomenal' by Paste Magazine, 'pop smarts' by Rolling Stone, and a 'game-changer' by Stereogum–Sleigh Bells have returned to the label for their fifth studio album, Texis, out on CD on September 10, 2021, the day after their sold-out Treats 10-Year Anniversary show at Webster Hall and ahead of a headline US tour throughout October and February.

n the five years that have elapsed since the release of Alvvays’ second album, Antisocialites, and their long-awaited third, Blue Rev, the Toronto-via-PEI band had to deal with every possible roadblock a band could face: lineup changes, demo thefts, gear-destroying basement floods—and that was before the pandemic.