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Pitchfork | My New Band Believe / Best New Music

Former Black Midi bassist Cameron Picton’s dazzlingly complicated solo debut is a tangle of baroque melodies, chamber-punk arrangements, and garden-path lyrics.

CBC News | Sarah Harmer, Begonia, and Terra Lightfoot to headline Northern Lights Festival in Sudbury, Ont.

The festival started in 1972 and is one of the longest-running in Canada.

Pitchfork | Listen to Empress Of’s New Song “Dream House”

Written after Lorely Rodriguez’s home was destroyed in the California wildfires

Stereogum | Empress Of – “Dream House”

"Dream House" came during a music session after her house burned down in the Altadena fires.

The Independent | Singer-songwriter Cat Clyde: ‘I moved around a lot – my parents were pretty chaotic people’

As the Canadian folk musician releases her brilliant fourth album, ‘Mud Blood Bone’, she speaks to Roisin O’Connor about the devastating breakup that inspired it, wanting to ‘punch a guy in the head’ for her latest music video, and why she’s not about to quit her roving ways

Stereogum | Alabaster DePlume – “Bringing Up The Nakba”

Later this spring, the London jazz saxophonist Alabaster DePlume will release Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue, the new EP that he recorded with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Tcheser Holmes.

OUT Magazine | How Pattie Gonia raised $1.2 million with a drag hike

The groundbreaking artist and environmentalist breaks down how she raised over $1M trekking up the California coast in drag.

Pitchfork: Downtown Boys Return With First Album in Nine Years

Get ready for Public Luxury with the punk outfit’s “No Me Jodas”

Pitchfork | Dagmar Zuniga: in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music

The Brooklyn psych-folk artist’s 2025 debut, newly reissued by AD 93, is dissonant, ghostly, and otherworldly, summoning complex emotions with sparse tools.

Pitchfork: Listen to Yaya Bey’s Lovestruck New Song “Egyptian Musk’”

Featuring the Queens-based artist NESTA

Stereogum | My New Band Believe – “Love Story”

Rolling Stone AUS: Inside Yumi Zouma’s Bold New Era: ‘We Wanted Something More Powerful and Visceral’

Yumi Zouma’s Charlie Ryder talks about ‘No Love Lost To Kindness’, embracing heavier sounds, and keeping a global band together

Tinnitist | Albums Of The Week: Powerplant | Bridge Of Sacrifice

“Darkest clouds have sealed the sky. Powerplant have returned. And they have brewed their strongest release yet. Bridge Of Sacrifice emerges from the cauldron with a fun, black metal-infused journey through all that is heavy and gothic.

Clash | Cat Clyde Shares Her Take On ‘My Love’

"It reminded me of the love that surrounds me in the natural world..."

Pitchfork | Iceage: "Star"

Sex and death collide on the Danish band’s first new song in five years.