The Fat Angel Sings

On Dummy’s new album, “do you love the color of the sky?”, the Los Angeles five-piece open up their sound with fresh textures, rhythms, and a sharper sense of intention. It’s their third album and first for Polyvinyl, recorded between their home studio and Studio 22 with collaborator and engineer Joo-Joo Ashworth.

The Los Angeles five-piece Dummy shared its first single, “Full Spectrum Dominance,” via a music video. They have also announced some new tour dates. 

Guitarist Joe Trainor had this to say about “Full Spectrum Dominance” in a press release: “I was trying to make something just heavier, and we joked it was our nu metal song, during the recording we added the tambourine that gives it a more dancey vibe,

Vocalist/keyboardist Emma Maatman adds: “This is the Technofeudalism bop. Tech billionaires are treating AI like the new Alchemy, using it as a source of power and magic. This supposedly soon-to-be all-powerful technology could not exist without harvesting all of humanity’s intellectual property and collective work. ‘Prima Materia’ is the building block of all alchemical matter, so in the canon of the song, we humans are the Prima Materia.”

Matt Wells directed and edited the song’s video. “Do you love the color of the sky?” is the followup to 2024’s “Free Energy”. The press release cites Seefeel, Windy and Carl, Laika, Disco Inferno, early Björk, The Sundays, and Madonna’s Ray of Light as reference points for the new album. Dummy’s full lineup is Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O’Dell, Joe Trainor, and Lance Umble.

“Do you love the color of the sky?” is due out October 16th via Polyvinyl.

London-based post-punk quartet World News have announced their debut album, “In Purgatory“, and have now shared its latest single, “The Way It Goes,” via a music video. “In Purgatory” is due out October 16.

Vocalist Alex Evans had this to say about the new song and album in a press release: “‘The Way It Goes’ was mostly written and demo’d back in 2020. The lyrics don’t possess too much of a story, but are more phrases, thoughts and collections of words of how I was feeling at the time. The album has a few songs on it similar to this that were written a few years ago, whilst some of the other tracks were written more recently, and in some cases weeks/days before hitting the studio. We’re all very excited to share the album with everyone.”

The album track “Sidestep” was released back in April . Another track from the album, “Everything Is Coming up Roses”, was released as a single in September 2025 

The album was recorded at RAK Studios in central London with producer Tommy Bosustow (mary in the junkyard, Porridge Radio)

“In Purgatory” is due out October 16th.

A new song from your old friends, Gang Of Youths.
Flush with all the sounds you’ve come to know and love – modern brass, lush strings, a crack rhythm section, and lyrics about entropy…this song can be enjoyed anywhere, on any sound system and on any occasion.
In fact, why don’t you throw it on right now?

Gang Of Youths are
Jung Kim, Donnie Borzestowski, Tom Hobden, and David Le’aupepe.

“Something Worth Waiting For”, the sophomore album by Chicago band Friko, obviously, instantly lives up to its title; the ironic part of it is that we didn’t have to wait that long. You could call them kids when they burst onto the scene with “Where we’ve been, Where we go from here”, and its follow-up sounds like the sort of epically anthemic record an indie rock buzzband might deliver over a decade after their debut.

Just two years later, Friko return with an expanded lineup, with vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan and drummer Bailey Minzenberger – who formed the band right out of high school – being joined by bassist David Fuller and guitarist Korgan Robb. While building on the raw, explosive dynamics, anthemic choruses, and infernal yearning of their first record, “Something Worth Waiting For” feels anything but rushed, just riding the wave of relentless touring instead of letting it subside.

“Necessary ” is from the Expanded Edition of Friko’s new album ‘Something Worth Waiting For’. The original album is available now

The London-based Celtic jangle pop boy band, The Tubs, have announced their new album, “Hard Life, out September 11th! The lead single, “Who’s Gonna Love You Now” is out today.

Upon arriving in the United States for The Tubs’ first tour of the country, frontman Owen Williams said, “We’re here to unite the country.” They piled into a van and criss-crossed the States, bringing their literary, bleary-eyed, world-weary, night-of-your-life highwire act to the masses.

Along the way, they signed to Merge Records, who will release The Tubs’ third full-length album, “Hard Life“, on September 11th, 2026. Having perfected their sound across two albums and hundreds of shows, the London-based Celtic jangle boyband push themselves even further into the shimmering heart of virtuosic indie rock, with the addition of fiddle player Chris Haigh adding a key element to the album’s lushness.

On “”Hard Life,” “the persona familiar to listeners of “Cotton Crown” and “Dead Meat” is still present, but so too is a second voice, steelier and more experienced. These voices argue, pester one another, merge into each other, and break apart, sometimes over the course of a single song.

Lead single “Who’s Gonna Love You Now?” puts the scold front and center, while the album explores grief, disappointment, regret, and shame, emerging from the wreckage as changed men. “I’m interested in the way sympathy and patience for someone suffering always runs out eventually,” Williams says. “How this can be a good and liberating thing as well as a sad and brutal thing. But mostly they’re just pop songs.” Exquisite, irresistible pop songs.

Spin them until the healing starts, then spin them again.

San Francisco shoegaze four-piece Aluminum have announced a new album, “Iconoclast HaHa”, and the band shared its lead single, “Killing Time,” . “Iconoclast HaHa” is due out October 30th via Felte. Check out the new single below.

The band consists of Marc Leyda (vocals, guitar, sampler), Ryann Gonsalves (vocals, bass), Austin Montanari (guitar), and Rick Altieri (drums).

Gonsalves had this to say about “Killing Time” in a press release: “This one comes from the frustration of living within a system that sets you up for failure, always ‘not being enough’ or ‘being too much,’ and all the anger, exhaustion, and pressure to comply.”

Leyda adds: “Much of the album comes from the ambient stress and uncertainty of our current place in time, and how it can affect both external and internal reality.”

Gonsalves also directed the song’s video and says: “I clean a little beach off the Bay some mornings, picking up bits of Styrofoam, lost shoes, shotgun shells, Big Gulp cups, etc. I imagined everything I picked up going through a grocery store conveyor belt and became fixated on the cycles of waste.”

“We intended for this to be a more guitar-forward album,” says Leyda, “so we recorded through Marshall stacks to give it a heavier feel, and to get a faster, more punkish sound that will be massive and immersive in a live setting.” 

Leyda adds: “We wanted to visualize the commodification of the individual alongside the endless waste put out by American society.”

“Iconoclast HaHa” follows the band’s 2024 debut album, “Fully Beat”. The band worked on the album with recording engineer Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden Studio in Oakland.

We have a new slice of music for you.
It’s a recording of a song called ‘Me and Magdalena’, penned by Ben Gibbard for the Monkees 2016 record ‘Good Times!’ It’s a much treasured tune in the Flyte camp.
We performed it rather spontaneously one afternoon with our dear friend Jacob Alon at Dom Monk’s studio in Somerset. Roy Lowe plays the drums, Nick plays the bass and harmonises, Tommy Heap plays the double bass and Jacob and I play acoustic guitar and sing.

Later, during the mixing process, a reverberant trumpet got added, played without the trumpet’s mouth piece, to ethereal effect.

The original song is set on the California coast, but we felt like we’d outstayed our welcome in this song-setting and relocated the lyrics to the valleys of the river Tay in Scotland, the backdrop of Jacob’s formative years.

Initially meant for our own private enjoyment, we decided we ought to release it to the wider world. Our friend Jonny Gent very kindly donated a painting of his to be the single cover. It’s a view of the highlands from his car window and couldn’t have fitted more perfectly.
Put it in your headphones and let it swirl around your brain. We hope it takes you somewhere good.

On “Sirenas”, Los Angeles quartet Allah-Las explore psychic vistas of atmospheric instrumental storytelling. The band’s sixth album coalesces around a more spontaneous soundscape shaped by freeform experimentation, intuitive vibrations, and open-ended moments of inner and outer worlding. Channeling a fluid sweep of influences, from The Durutti Column, I.A.O., and Popol Vuh’s scores for Werner Herzog to Jacques Cousteau’s expansion of The Silent World beneath the ocean’s surface, “Sirenas” mediates on subconscious grooves loosely imagined and deeply felt, and opens up previously unimagined pathways in the process.

A sound cultivated from the annals of California culture; the perfect mixture of the sands, the seas, the streets and cities of the golden state.

All songs written by Matthew Correia, Spencer Dunham, Miles Michaud, and Pedrum Siadatian

released August 28th, 2026

Jimi Hendrix’s performance of “Star Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in August 1969 was a turning point in the history of the counter-culture movement. As a summing up of one of the most volatile eras in the nation’s history, his adaptation of our national anthem has entered our cultural lexicon as perhaps the most powerful musical touchstone of the era

In conjunction with the debut of the extended concert film Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock – A Second Look, we’re pleased to announce that we will be debuting more content to the Jimi Hendrix YouTube Channel over the coming weeks and months.  In addition to streaming the entire Jimi Hendrix music catalog via YouTube Music, fans can enjoy a growing collection of new and archival releases from the main Jimi Hendrix Channel. Subscribe today, follow our community posts, and be among the first to get updates on future releases.

Sub Pop newbie Lex Walton just dropped her label debut, “Ultimate Love Forever”, taking aim at many systemic transgressions including the “widespread meaninglessness in indie rock” at a time of genocide and tyranny. In a recent interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, Walton asked, “Do you need to see more people get killed for you to feel something other than a wristwatch at the himbo dome, or whatever fucking bullshit? What are you doing?” 

She’s talking about MJ Lenderman here, whose “houseboat” vocal gets a nod in “Hipster Runoff.” But Walton’s sentiment gnaws at something that’s angered me for years: everyone wants to rip off Neil Young but only the guitars. I think these Crazy Horse wannabes would be far more compelling if their lyrics gleaned anything but bro-y word salad or celebrity name-drops. But hey, what do I know?

Walton sheds her peers’ verbose habits by tearing into “hypnagogic Republicans, shitgaze landlords” like Ariel Pink and Wavves directly and calling out algorithms, short-form video content, drones, and killer cops for being equal players in the inevitable, optimized end of the world.

That “Hipster Runoff” is this totally batshit, Suicide-meets-Wolf Parade-style blog-rock scorcher, plagued with decay and produced by Dan Boeckner himself, is just another part of her language. While Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld drags her bow across the song, Walton shouts out Kony 2012 and pushes back against the millennial apathy her music is so cleverly cribbing: “I know it’s the obvious thing to say / It’s not gonna change anyone’s mind / But you know if they’re gonna round us all up tomorrow / I just want you to know that I hate you.” Rock music can’t save anyone anymore, but we can use it to say who’s killing us.