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The Guardian | The best albums of 2026 so far

NPR Music | NPR listeners share the songs that help reset their mood

In April, the NPR Music podcast celebrated the season for starting over by cobbling together a playlist of tunes to help you hit the reset button.

Perfectly Imperfect | A Taste Of Taste with Iceage

The Copenhagen-based band stops by to tell us what they've been into.

LA Times | Who pissed off Conor Oberst and why it was good for fans of Bright Eyes

Rolling Stone | Kurt Vile Is at Home in the Universe (and Philadelphia)

NYT | A Nice Hang With a Low-Key Rock Star

Clash | Fat Dog Have An Expletive Laden New Single (And We Love It)

Pitchfork | Yard Act Ready New Album You’re Gonna Need a Little Music

Stereogum | Kurt Vile Shares New Song "Zoom 97"

FLOOD | youbet, youbet Review

Penetratingly exact and proudly undefinable, Nick Llobet’s first album since expanding the project to a duo adds more definition to the sinewy, searching palette of their previous material.

PASTE | Florry rock the country on Smells Like… Florry Live As Hell

Paste Pick: On the Philly band’s new live tape, Francie Medosch and co. showcase their ability to flip seamlessly between the raucous and the intimate, and, at their best moments, squish the two together into something new and unique.

KILL FEED 083: Lord Gordith of QUEST MASTER Keeps the Dream of the ’90s Alive

Enter Lord Gordith, the creative mind behind Australian fantasy synthesizer project Quest Master. Video games and, more specifically, early Nintendo systems played an early role in the solo artist’s compositions, his first release being described as a “soundtrack to a ’90s RPG, that was forgotten by time.” His 2023 full length Sword & Circuitry, as well as his partnership with kindred spirit Out of Season Records, saw his in-studio fantasy become a live performance reality.

Rolling Stone | Swapmeet's Big, Beautiful Indie Noise

These four friends from Australia were one of the buzziest international acts at this year's SXSW, and they're about to release an excellent debut album