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“God Bless The Blake Babies” is the fourth studio album by the Blake Babies, released in 2001, marking their brief reunion. The Blake Babies, formed in the late 1980s, are known for their melodic sound and introspective lyrics.
“God Bless The Blake Babies” reflects their evolution as a band and includes a mix of new material that resonates with both old fans and new listeners. The reunion for this album was significant as it brought back the original lineup, allowing them to revisit their musical roots while exploring new themes and sounds.
We are very excited to release “God Bless the Blake Babies” on vinyl for the first time ever to celebrate it’s 25th Anniversary. This label-exclusive reissue is limited to 500 units worldwide and available on black, midnight blue, or splatter vinyl in a gatefold jacket.
Reissue artwork prepared by Aaron Tanner. Vinyl mastering and lacquers cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Records pressed at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH.
We are thrilled to release ‘God Bless The Blake Babies’ on vinyl for the first time ever to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. This exclusive pressing is limited to 500 units
Mitski releases her eighth studio album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me” via Dead Oceans. Supported by a live band and orchestra, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me” finds Mitski immersing herself in a rich narrative whose main character is a reclusive woman in an unkempt house. Outside of her home, she is a deviant; inside of her home, she is free.
Across the album, she balances closeness with distance – songs that feel personal without asking for anything in return.
Standout singles include “Where’s My Phone?,” “I’ll Change for You,” and “If I Leave.” The album was produced and engineered by Patrick Hyland and mastered by Bob Weston, with assistance on drums and logistics from Kris Bulakowski. Continuing the musical through line established with “The Land Is Inhospitable” and “So Are We“, the album features live instrumentation by The Land touring band and ensemble arrangements.
Joy Oladokun has signed to Concord Records and shared her first new music of 2026. “I wrote ‘Nothing Comes Easy’ about how getting hurt can happen quickly but healing takes time,” she says. “This past year, I dealt with a lot of change in my personal life and career and for a moment it felt like nothing good would ever come again. In my backyard, there is a planter filled with the most resilient sunflowers I’ve ever seen. I wrote this song about watching them find life over and over again and how they taught me to celebrate good things because oftentimes they have fought hard to be good.
Olubukola Joy Oladokun, born on April 1992, is an American singer-songwriter. With her soulful voice and heartfelt lyrics, she captivates audiences around the world. Joy’s music combines elements of folk, pop, and R&B to create a unique sound that resonates with listeners of all ages. Her powerful storytelling ability shines through in every song she writes. Whether performing solo or collaborating with other artists, Joy’s passion for music is evident in every note she sings.
Oladokun has released a handful of singles since 2024’s great album “Observations From A Crowded Room”, but “Nothing Comes Easy” is her first new music of 2026.
She shared some insight about the new song: I wrote “Nothing Comes Easy” about how getting hurt can happen quickly but healing takes time. This past year, I dealt with a lot of change in my personal life and career and for a moment it felt like nothing good would ever come again. In my backyard, there is a planter filled with the most resilient sunflowers I’ve ever seen. I wrote this song about watching them find life over and over again and how they taught me to celebrate good things because oftentimes they have fought hard to be good.
concord records
Lande Hekt has shared the title track to her upcoming album Lucky Now. “Although I list some pretty specific things in this song, it is aimed to be a broad song about personal freedom and moving onto better things,” Lande says. “The specific landmarks I have listed refer to getting a touring visa denied right before a big tour, changing the direction of my then band’s career, a fire that burned down our local venue that I worked at and near enough lived at leading to a drinking problem and then getting sober!”
Lande Hekt has quietly become one of the UK’s best underground songwriters. On her 2021 debut full-length “Going To Hell” and 2022’s “House Without a View“, she explored her queer identity, sobriety, and childhood trauma through the lens of heartfelt, conversational indie-pop, which led to spots opening for the likes of Alvvays, Throwing Muses and The Beths.
“Lucky Now” is the second single and the title track from the album “Lucky Now“, out 30th January 2026 on Tapete Records.
Winged Wheel is a band that includes Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Circuit des Yeux), Cory Plump (Spray Paint), Matthew J. Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Lonnie Slack, and Fred Thomas (Idle Ray, Tyvek). You could practically them a supergroup. The patient, exploratory “Desert So Green” is their third album, following 2024’s “Big Hotel”. Working out of a studio on the outskirts of Chicago, the band embraced a more cohesive approach, foregoing some of the jammy tendencies of their previous records for deeper experimentation.
“So, how did this band even happen?” That’s the question most often asked of “Winged Wheel”, a creatively and geographically scattered collective who have somehow congregated to make a noise that’s unexpected but undeniable. With each player living in a different city and bringing their own unique element to the group’s chain reactions. Early long distance file-trading between a few members yielded 2022’s “No Island”, a debut album that was accidentally really good.
Good enough for the band to expand their membership and meet in person for the sessions that became 2024’s “Big Hotel”, a surgically-assembled murk of high energy kosmische rock with jammed-out tendencies. Fast forward just a little and all of a sudden the band that started out as a passing idea has completed multiple tours, become a taper’s dream with sets that drift through structure and improvisation, and ridden the momentum to places unforeseen on their third album, “Desert So Green”.
released January 9th, 2026
Winged Wheel :
Whitney Johnson
Cory Plump
Matthew J Rolin
Steve Shelley
Lonnie “Palmtree” Slack
Fred Thomas
Meek “specialises in a philosophical strain of song writing,” which is evident across “The Mirror.” There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. “The Mirror” searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice.
On “The Mirror”, love, as an idea, is always close – but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could be and how they’ve been before. Meek holds the absurdity of devotion, the choice to love – with equal parts ache and grin, as on today’s single, ‘Gasoline’. He sings, “Making words up while we made love / one month and she’s in my blood.”
Emerging from a decade of work together in Big Thief, the partnership of Meek and producer James Krivchenia arrived from the idea to combine the band’s live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world. From production projects including Big Thief’s “Dragon New Warm Mountain” “I Believe In You” and his recent solo record, , Krivchenia’s work is enlivened through electronic elements, always seeking to deepen sound. The concept for “The Mirror” welcomed a collective atmosphere in which simultaneous experiment could occur – the musicians responded to each other in real time, while their instruments triggered modular synthesizers.
For The Mirror, Meek and Krivchenia welcomed in friends, family, and longtime collaborators including Adrianne Lenker, who contributed vocals, Adam Brisbin on guitar, and Ken Woodward on bass. New creative partners and longtime friends like composer and ambient musician Alex Somers joined in on synthesizer, toy microphone, an old piano, and Mary Lattimore brought in the sounds of her prismatic harp. A rotating cast of four drummers: Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia provide a wide dynamic arc of grooves. Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker sing as a choir on many songs. Meek’s brother, Dylan Meek contributed piano, keys, and vocals. Adrian Olsen created a wide range of sounds and melodies with modular synths.
With his songwriting acting as a compass to the recording process, Meek invited interaction, instead of limiting the tracks to something controllable. The album was recorded in Meek and Dunes’ Los Angeles log cabin studio, Ringo Bingo. Meek recorded vocals outdoors on the front porch, looking through the living room window where the band played inside.
Just months after Big Thief had released one of top favourite albums of 2025 with “Double Infinity”, Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek announced his next solo album, “The Mirror”, due late February via 4AD Records. It was made with his Big Thief bandmate James Krivchenia and Big Thief vocalist Adrianne Lenker contributes to it too, so it shouldn’t be a big surprise that you can hear a lot of Big Thief’s magic coming through on lead single “Gasoline.”
It’s the kind of strummy folk rock that Buck Meek does so well, but it’s also got some of those art rock tendencies that came through on “Double Infinity“, making it just a little more far-out than what we usually get from Buck’s solo career.
Buck Meek’s new album, “The Mirror”, is out 27th February on 4AD.
Snail Mail, the project of Baltimore singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan, has announced her third studio album, “Ricochet”, her first in nearly five years. It’s due out March 27th via Matador Records.
With the announcement comes lead single “Dead End”, a taste into the 90s alt rock direction of the record. “Dead End” mourns the simplicity of a suburban adolescence. Of the music video she co-directed with Elsie Richter, Jordan shares, “We shot the video for ‘Dead End’ in random places all around rural North Carolina between the hours of 5pm and 4am on one of the coldest nights of my life. The goal was to be inconspicuous with the fireworks, but someone called the cops on us.”
While Snail Mail’s earlier albums focused primarily on the trials and tribulations of young love, “Ricochet” further explores Jordan’s philosophies on mortality and identity. This record also marks Jordan’s first full release following her vocal polyps recovery.
“Ricochet” is out March 27th.
The Philadelphia shoegaze revival band They Are Gutting a Body of Water (TAGABOW) shared their live recording session for NTS Radio. Recorded in a junkyard just outside the city, they performed three tracks off their last record “Lotto”.
TAGABOW also announced that they’d be extending their “LOTTO” promotional tour, adding dates for cities across the US. After stopping by the UK and Europe next February,
The Cult Philadelphia shoegaze band TAGABOW bring their crushing, maximalist sound to the chaos of the junkyard on their NTS Session.
Courtney Barnett is back with a brand new record. “Creature of Habit”, out March via Mom+Pop Music, is the follow-up to 2021’s “Things Take Time, Take Time“. With the news comes brand new single, “Site Unseen”, featuring Waxahatchee. It’s set to a Juliana and Nicola Giraffe-directed visualizer.
“Creature of Habit” marks a decisive new chapter in Courtney Barnett’s musical evolution. It’s a bold, emotionally resonant record that explores the central question: how to get out of your own way so you can truly feel your life. Written in the wake of a relocation from Australia to Los Angeles and the closure of her long-running label Milk! Records, Barnett was grappling with changes that put the future of both her life and career in question. Rather than internalising those feelings, she decided to bring all this swirling confusion directly into the recording process.
Courtney Barnett’s Creature of Habit marks a clear turning point in her songwriting and approach. Known for transforming the details of everyday life into sharp, affecting songs, Barnett uses this album to look inward, asking how to break patterns, quiet self-doubt and stay present inside your own life.
“I tried 3 separate times over 2 years to track this song, and each time it either wasn’t finished or didn’t sound right and each time we had to start again. I kept hearing this really high harmony in my head, so for the fourth and final version, I asked Katie if she’d be into singing it with me. I’m a big Waxahatchee fan. I really love Katie’s songwriting and her voice, so it was an honour to have her sing on ‘Site Unseen’.”
The album also features previously-shared single “Stay in Your Lane”.
Written during a period of major personal and professional change, “Creature of Habit” brings uncertainty directly into the creative process. Rather than smoothing over disruption, Barnett lets it shape the music, resulting in a record that feels deliberate, reflective and quietly assured. The familiar observational wit remains, but it’s paired with a deeper focus on emotional habits, routines and the effort it takes to move beyond them.
Across her career, Barnett has steadily expanded her sound and perspective, from early breakthroughs that established her distinctive voice to later records that leaned into broader emotional and political territory. “Creature of Habit” builds on that trajectory, stripping things back while pushing forward, and capturing an artist taking stock without losing momentum.
It’s a confident, considered statement that finds clarity in change and strength in self-examination.
The Fat Angel Sings 