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Art D’Ecco – Serene Demon: Pop Ambition Done Right

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Kiki Kramer by Katherine Cook

Introducing Kiki Kramer

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Weekend Videos: Model/Actriz – “Cinderella”

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Stereolab - Aerial Troubles

Weekend Videos: Stereolab – “Aerial Troubles”

Olivia·July 2, 2026

Stereolab return with “Aerial Troubles“ sounding brisk, assured, and very much alive. The song’s steady groove meets Laurent...

Mount Palomar L'aliment

Track Spotlight: Mount Palomar – L’Aliment

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Fever to Tell’, A Last Hoorah for Guitar Music

Eternal Soundtrack

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The Bends: 30 Years Since Radiohead Stopped Following and Started Leading

Eternal Soundtrack

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Introducing Lana Crow

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Introducing Eoin Shannon

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Mt. Kili

Introducing Mt. Kili

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Introducing Intercontinen7al

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Weekend Videos: Hiroki Tanaka – “Yamato”

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Weekend Videos: Car Seat Headrest – Gethesemene

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Weekend Videos: Little Simz – Flood

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Weekend Videos: Casablanca Drivers – “No Mercy”

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Weekend Videos: Perfume Genius – “It’s A Mirror”

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Interview with Evil Little Thing

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

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Interview with Chelle

Editorial

Nostalgia is fine...But...

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

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High Noon

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

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Track Spotlight: Montana Joanna – “Same Stars”

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

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Antoin Gibson - Diss Tribute

Antoin Gibson’s “Diss Tribute”: A Fierce Rap Flip on the Algorithm Era

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Divorce Find Their Voice on ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’

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From the archives

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Reading Festival 2013 Preview

Chief Cougar·July 12, 2013

Some forty years from its original inception Reading Festival remains one of the major highlights of the glorious...

Festival Live show News

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WILDES releases debut single “Bare”

T.R. Wicks·March 23, 2016

With a soul as deep as an ocean abyss, singer/songwriter Ella Walker aka WILDES invites us into her...

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Weekend Videos: Gotye – ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’

Emily·October 22, 2011

Originally Emily was going to write a ‘Weekend Videos’ installment for Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know‘. Instead...

CM Selects

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CM Selects: Pop July 2026 #1

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CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #14

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CM Selects: Electronica June 2026 #5

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CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #13

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CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #12

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CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #11

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CM Selects: Pop June 2026 #4

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CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #10

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CM Selects: Pop June 2026 #4

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CM Selects: Electronica June 2026 #4

Cougar MIcrobes Selects Hip Hip

CM Selects: Hip Hop May 2026 #3

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CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #9

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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...

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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...

M4TR

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...

Cover for Sasha Joy's Got You Something

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...

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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...

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Courting Lust For Life Album Cover

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...

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

Sam·March 12, 2025

Two years ago, Antony Szmierek was teaching English and self-publishing novels. Now he has made a debut that...

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Porridge Radio

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

Olivia·February 27, 2025

It is a strange thing to make sense of a breakup when the music arriving alongside it still...

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Destroyer Press Photo for Dan's Boogie. Dan Bejar in black and white in what looks like a changing room.

Weekend Videos: Destroyer – Bologna

Chief Cougar·January 12, 2025

You’d expect Dan Bejar to make you work for it. He has built two decades of Destroyer records...

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