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Antony Szmierek: Words That Make You Think, Beats That Make You Drift

Porridge Radio Sign Off With The Machine Starts To Sing, And It Stings

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CM Selects: Pop August 2026 #2

Ruby·August 30, 2026

In this edition, we bring you self-love anthems, lilting lyrics mourning heartbreaks, and cutting observations about the human...

CM Selects: ELECTRONICA/HIP-HOP AUGUST 2026 #4

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: INDIE 21 AUGUST 2026

Artist Spotlight Introducing

Introducing Moon Construction Kit

Artist Spotlight

Introducing

Introducing Lana Crow

Introducing

Introducing Eoin Shannon

Introducing Mt. Kili

Featured Introducing

Intercontinen7al "Love Is Everywhere" single cover.

Introducing Intercontinen7al

Featured Introducing

Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Stereolab – “Aerial Troubles”

Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Hiroki Tanaka – “Yamato”

Artist Spotlight Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Car Seat Headrest – Gethesemene

Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Little Simz – Flood

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Weekend Videos: Model/Actriz – “Cinderella”

Featured Weekend Videos

Interviews

INTERVIEW WITH EVIL LITTLE THING

Interview with Evil Little Thing

Album Review + Interview: Emma Miller Drops A Physical Anchor In Digital Waters With “I Want To Be The Anchor”

Editorial

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: INDIE AUGUST 2026

Track Spotlight: Mount Palomar – L’Aliment

Track Spotlight

Quiet as a Mouse – Nostalgia is fine… But… This album is better

High Noon by Moon and Aries: A delightful taste of upcoming EP Prairie Souls

Track Spotlight

Track Spotlight: Montana Joanna – “Same Stars”

Track Spotlight

Irina Imme’s Y2K binds that 2000’s energy in pure sonic bliss

Album Spotlight Personal touch

From the archives

Dub Pistols cultivate new single Ganja

Chief Cougar·February 18, 2010

The latest release from the mighty fine Dub Pistols crew extols the virtues of the illegal drug that...

Cougar Microbes Albums of 2012: Hot Chip – ‘In Our Heads’

Chief Cougar, T.R. Wicks and Nicole Kilpatrick·January 13, 2013

For over ten years, album after album, Hot Chip have been carving out their unmistakable niche sound. The London...

Album Spotlight Artist Spotlight

Weekend Videos: On An On – “Every Song”

Chief Cougar·July 13, 2013

Here is On An On‘s visually stunning video for the track “Every Song” to get us started for...

Weekend Videos

CM Selects

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: INDIE AUGUST 2026 #5

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: POP AUGUST 2026 #1

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: INDIE AUGUST 2026 #4

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: INDIE AUGUST 2026 #3

CM Selects: Electronica August 2026 #2

CM Selects: Electronica August 2026 #1

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: INDIE AUGUST 2026 #2

CM Selects: ELECTRONICA AUGUST 2026 #3

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: POP AUGUST 2026 #2

CM Selects: Indie/Rock AUGUST 2026 #1

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: INDIE JULY 2026 #2

COUGAR MICROBES SELECTS: ELECTRONICA JULY 2026 #1

Artist Spotlight Featured

M0n0 Jay Is Multiplying and “Variant” Is Undeniable Proof

Jen·June 29, 2026

M0n0 Jay’s “Variant” is sensory pop music with deep house running through its veins, and it knows exactly...

Interview with Chelle

Jen·June 13, 2026

Following the massive success for her second single “Ain’t Lovin You”, Chelle doubles down on her signature sound...

Talk in Vain rework “I Drove All Night” into a rock-driven sprint

Oliver·June 5, 2026

Talk in Vain’s rock-driven reinterpretation of “I Drove All Night”* is out today, and it gives a familiar song...

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Interview with M4TR

Valya·May 25, 2026

M4TR returns with ‘Reimagination: The Remixes, Vol. 1‘, a release that finds him handing key tracks from ‘Love...

Artist Spotlight Featured

Sasha Joy’s “Got You Something” Gives Heartbreak a Glow-up

Jen·May 15, 2026

Breakup songs have a reputation problem. Too many of them want you to either sob into your pillow...

Introducing Kiki Kramer

SJ·May 4, 2026

Born of New York City nightlife and the restless energy of the digital age, Kiki Kramer is an alt‑pop artist who understands...

Artist Spotlight Featured Introducing

Divorce Find Their Voice on ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’

Chief Cougar·July 3, 2025

When I first heard Divorce’s self-titled EP back in 2022, it felt like a raw, jagged artefact from...

Great Grandpa Patience, Moonbeam album cover

Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam: An Ambitious Indie Rock Comeback That Holds

Oliver·April 7, 2025

After years of near-silence and the threat of collapse, Great Grandpa return sounding less like a reunion and...

Courting’s Lust for Life Is a Fast, Frenzied, Brilliant Mess

Sam·March 12, 2025

The first real beat on ‘Lust for Life‘ does not so much drop as detonate, snapping Courting out of a...