LAUREL - Wild Things

LAUREL is releasing new album "PALPITATIONS" on June 14th!

Emilie Simon - Tiger

Emilie Simon is releasing her new album "Polaris" next month!

Isobel Campbell - 4316

New Isobel Campbell!! Her new album "Bow to Love" will be out May 17th!

Rachel Love - Without You

Beautiful new single from Rachel Love off upcoming 2nd album!

Bat for Lashes - The Dream of Delphi

New from Bat for Lashes! Her new album "The Dream of Delphi" is out May 31st!

Holiday Sidewinder - Crystal Bay

New single from Holiday Sidewinder! Her new album "The Last Resort" will be out in May!

Allie X - Weird World

Allie X's latest "Girl With No Face" is out TODAY!!

Bel Canto - Grass Mint Crisp

We haven't heard from Bel Canto in quite some time! They're releasing new album "Radiant Green" on April 26th!

Farah - The Living Dead

New single from Farah!

Hana Vu - Care

New from Hana Vu off upcoming new album "Romanticism, out May 3rd"!

Sunlit - Someone So Beautiful

Another slice of beauty from Sunlit!

Leathers - Crash

Latest single from Leathers!

U2 - Love Is Blindness

Rockyboo's Xmas gift this year was tickets to see U2 at the Sphere! While I'm not their biggest fan, "Achtung Baby" is a great album and this should be an awesome experience! My favorite song of theirs is this beauty!

Mammoth Penguins - Species

New goodness from Mammoth Penguins off upcoming new album "Here", out May 3rd!

Tei Shi - QQ {Quédate Queriéndome}

Love me some Tei Shi! Here's her latest!

The Ballet - Handsome Devil

New video from The Ballet off last year's excellent "Daddy Issues"!

Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment

A voice one can never tire of, the wonderful Beth Gibbons is releasing a new solo album "Lives Outgrown" on May 17th!

Sia and Kylie - Dance Alone

It's here! Sia and Kylie's new dancefloor jam! It will feature on Sia's new album "Reasonable Woman", out May 3rd!

OIympia - Try to Be Good

New track from Olympia!

Flashback 2000: Belle and Sebastian - There's Too Much Love

Belle and Sebastian released their wonderful "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant" in 2000 and it featured one of the band's best songs in their entire catalog. It was a wonderful joy to hear it featured in one of the best scenes of the FANTASTIC 2014 film "The Way He Looks", which you can see some clips of in the video I'm sharing!

TR/ST - Being Boring

TR/ST released his latest EP "TR/ST" a couple weeks ago. It features a few new songs and this cover (with help from Jake Shears) of one of the best Pet Shop Boys songs ever! Took me a couple listens to enjoy, but now I love it!

Kita Alexander - All Night (feat. LAUREL)

Very nice from Kita Alexander with the help of LAUREL! Her debut album "Young in Love" will be out March 22nd!

Iisa - Mikään ei riitä (feat. Antti Autio)

New goodness from Iisa, who releases her new album "HARDCORE" in August!

Red Sleeping Beauty - Free Cake for Every Creature

Returning with their monthly single series, here is Red Sleeping Beauty with a mantra I can truly stand behind!

Club 8 - Just Like Heaven

Another new single from Club 8...and it's not a cover!

The Decline and Fall of Heavenly

On Friday, Heavenly released the next of their re-issues of ALL their albums! Released in 1994, "The Decline and Fall of Heavenly" was Heavenly's shortest album and packed the most punch...thanks to the riot grrrl influences found during their stint in the US.
The album starts with a bang as "Me and My Madness" shows a whole new side to the band (more writers/more instruments/more harmonizing), and it continues for 6 more tracks until finally closing with the softer tale of unexpressed love in "She and Me". There's even a frollicking instrumental thrown in the middle. "Sacramento" is what I like to call their Dick Dale moment.
This album also holds some special memories in my life. I'll always remember one of my sister's early e-mail addresses was "meandmymadness@...com". This was the album I used to introduce her to Heavenly. The wonderfully titled "Sperm Meets Egg, So What?" was featured as the opening track on one of my all-time favorite mix CDs, "An Exploration of the Human Body - From Conception to Death", which I realize I need to un-earth and share here!
Topping off the awesomeoness, they've attached the entire "Atta Girl" EP featuring some of the band's most beloved tracks including "P.U.N.K Girl" & "Hearts and Crosses". The EP is pretty much perfect and further shows the band hitting its stride to the fullest!
These two releases show the band growing in all the right ways and they only get better from there! Later in 2024, we'll see the re-issue of the band's final album "Operation Heavenly". So excited my sister and I will be seeing them AGAIN in June, this time in NY! Life is good!

El Perro del Mar - Between You and Me Nothing

More dreamy beauty from El Perro del Mar off upcoming "Big Anonymous", out in a couple weeks!

Camera Obscura - Big Love

YAY! Camera Obscura are back! They have a new album, "Look to the East, Look to the West" out May 3rd and I'm very excited!

Pet Shop Boys - Loneliness

Pet Shop Boys return with their latest single and news of upcoming album "Nonetheless", out April 26th!