Jul 15, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Varèse Sarabande celebrates the 40th anniversary of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet with a reissue of its iconic soundtrack. Composed and conducted by Angelo Badalamenti, the atmospheric score not only marked the beginning of the artist’s influential creative partnership...
Jul 15, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Getting their start as the 1980s bled into the 90s, Velocity Girl arose from a new pop underground that had been percolating in Washington, DC, and its suburbs, a group of bands clustered around our then-nascent Slumberland Records who broadened DC’s punk...
Jul 14, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Cold Gawd’s forthcoming EP Glory2 brings forward the muscular distortion of their God Get Me The Fuck Out of Here LP (2022) and the lush production I’ll Drown On This Earth (2024) and adapts them to a new era for the group. For the California Shoegaze...
Jul 14, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Nashville’s LOCKSTEP have built a sound rooted in atmosphere and weight, and move between quiet, uneasy moments and crushing walls of noise. With each release, the band has tightened their approach—cutting excess and focusing on impact. LOCKSTEP’s...
Jul 13, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Burnin’ rubber and breaking the sound barrier, Ty and his band are blitzing through the end times in an armored vehicle of destruction: that is, Chrome, their new album done up DIRTY & due out August 28. Today, Ty & co. unleash a new single,...
Jul 9, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
You have to wonder why Railcard took so long to be born: their debut album feels like it should have been in your collection for years. But it wasn’t until 2025 that Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture), Ian Button and Peter Momtchiloff (Heavenly) met at a gig, realised that...
