album premiere
Hear First: Tobin Sprout’s Empty Horses
An album premiere, plus an introductory essay by the artist himself.
Hear First: Throwing Muses’s Sun Racket
The premiere of the legendary Rhode Island band’s new album, plus an introduction to it by frontwoman Kristin Hersh.
Hear First: Xanthe Alexis’s The Offering
The songwriter and activist walks through her new album with producer Conor Bourgal.
Hear First: NIIKA’s Close But Not Too Close
Stream the new album, and read her conversation about it with fellow Chicagoan NNAMDÏ.
Hear First: MAITA’s Best Wishes
An album premiere, with an introduction by Kill Rock Stars founder Slim Moon.
Blonder’s Constantine Anastasakis is Driving and Stretching to Keep Calm
Oh, and he’s releasing a new EP, which you can hear here first.
Hear First: The Lowest Pair’s The Perfect Plan
An album premiere from the experimental folk duo, plus a convo with their producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes).
Hear First: Las Nubes and Palomino Blond’s Split EP
A record premiere, and a conversation between two of Miami’s most promising rock bands.
Hear First: Emily Yacina’s Remember the Silver
An album premiere, plus an essay by the artist herself.
Hear First: Pat Irwin & J. Walter Hawkes’s Wide Open Sky
An album premiere, plus an introduction to it written by Cynthia Sley of the Bush Tetras.
Hear First: Ian O’Neil’s Ten Years of It
The premiere of a new album, plus a dissection of the history of the "Other Guy" from Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus.











