Release date: October 16, 2026 Label: Bar/None

Release date: October 9, 2026 Label: NNA Tapes

REUBEN AND THE DARK IF YOU KNOW ME, YOU KNOW MY BROTHER PULLING UP ARROWS RECORDS Calgary’s Reuben Bullock and his Reuben and The Dark have never been easy to categorize, even though quite a number of critics have been comparing them with War on Drugs, with high quality of music up front. Yet, the […]

TEENAGE FANCLUB DO NOT DARE TO DREAM MERGE RECORDS Being decades on the music scene, with fans needing extra fingers to count your albums, your music is bound to change, with one question being essential there – is the quality changing for better or worse? These facts and questions don’t escape a single artist or […]

GROWING PAINS DANIEL LOVES MANDY FOREVER PHOTO FINISH RECORDS Labeling band’s music has become a very hard job for PR people, as artists and bands these days keep crossing the strictly formulated terms that are supposed to describe the music in any new release. That just might be the only problem Portland, Oregon’s Growing Pains […]

Release date: October 9, 2026 Label: 10K Global

TONY FLETCHER – POW! WHEN UK PUNK WENT POP 1980-84 TROUSER PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC The number of music books seems to be proliferating which at the same time means that there is quite some divergence in their quality. It can go from fan-like adulation biographies to detailed and sometimes too serious academic […]

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Live Review: Sarah Julia – The Fear That This Is Real – Release date – October 9, 2026 If got the impression that there is just Sarah Julia, [...]

Release date: October 9, 2026 Label: Egghunt Records

LENE 3000 GREATEST SWAMP HITS 10K PROJECTS Lene 3000 is the moniker of Norwegian witch house singer songwriter Lene Talgø, who is just releasing her debut album with a grand title of Greatest Swamp Hits. For the uninitiated, according to Wikipedia’s definition, witch house is a microgenre of electronic music that is musically characterized by high-pitched keyboard effects, heavily […]

VACATIONS PURSUIT OF ANYTHING NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP What is it with Australians and well too perfectly crafted sophisticated (pop) rock? Is it something in the water, tradition or something else? The number of such bands/artists from Down Under has been steadily growing, and it is enough just to mention The Go-Betweens, Apartments, The Triffids, the […]

BRANDON WOLFE SCOTT PRESSED FLOWERS VICTORY POOL RECORDS Those familiar with the band that goes by as Yukon Blonde will surely be familiar with Vancouver’s Brandon Wolfe Scott, a member of the band who has started coming up with solo releases to, Pressed Flowers, his latest 4-song EP being also his fourth solo release. Inhabiting […]

THE KLITTENS HAVE A HEART THK/CARGO RECORDS How do you combine together as a relatively new artis/band so many strands of rock and still give it some sort of a unifying character? This might be an eternal question for new artists/bands and not so many are able to answer it properly with their debut album. […]

Bossa Nova, as a specific genre, has always had the strongest ties to jazz, with more or less connections to other musical genres, and one of the most prominent Brazilian artists with that jazz connection from the prime time of Bossa Nova has been singer (and songwriter) Joyce Moreno, who often recorded just as Joyce.

Release date: October 2, 2026 Label: Northern Spy

KATHERINE PERKINS HELPLESS LOVE TWELVE | EIGHT RECORDS Maine’s Katherine Perkins is not the first and surely will not be the last singer and songwriter who is also a painter. In most cases, one artistic side takes a dominance over the other, but with Perkins there seems to be quite a balance there, as on […]

THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES TRUE LOVE DAYDREAM FIRE RECORDS San Francisco’s Glenn Donaldson and his Reds, Pinks and Purples, have not only been around for a while, but their releases have been coming in a steady succession, enabling Donaldson and the band to build quite a solid reputation. Yet that reputation didn’t simply come […]

COCOLAROSA THE VALLEY OF TONGUES INDEPENDENT Ok, if you follow the singer songwriter scene closely, you might have noticed that recently there have not been that many so to say ‘classic’ singer songwriters, those that sit (or stand) with their acoustic instrument and essentially rely on what they have to say with their lyrics and […]

THE COMPANY CAR THE RETURN OF INDEPENDENT If you know that a band is located in Nashville and that their music is characterized as psychedelia, there is quite some certainty there that it will be some musical connection with spaced-out folk or country. And yes, on their first full length album The Return Of (an […]

Release date: September 24, 2026 Label: Veego Records