Not everyone has heard Grumpy, but hundreds of thousands of people have heard Heaven Schmitt. The North Carolina-raised, New York-based singer-songwriter began lending backing vocals to Zach Bryan in 2024 after connecting through a mutual industry friend, and was later hired to the Americana megastar’s touring band earlier this year. With Bryan, Schmitt — whose output with Grumpy leans towards off-kilter, experimental indie pop — has belted mainstream country hits like the Kacey Musgraves duet “I Remember Everything” to sold-out stadiums full of beer-drinkin’, trucker-hat-wearin’ devotees; just call Schmitt “Theycey MusGayves.”
Maybe you’ve noticed that country music has been popular lately. In the past few years,…
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Dating back to 1994’s Live…My Truck Is My Home and The 9 Volt Years: Battery Powered Home Demos from four years later, Marshall Crenshaw has created an alternate universe for himself with a discerning series of recordings from his personal archives (not to mention expanded editions of previously released studio efforts).
For Wüsthoff, music began long before Faust. As a child he watched his father lose himself in music, playing accordion renditions of operettas, film themes and folk songs with complete absorption. At eleven he discovered jazz through a radio programme tracing its history, then taught himself guitar and piano as a teenager, developing an instinctive relationship with sound driven by curiosity rather than convention. That outlook would become central to Faust, not simply as a band but as an enduring way of thinking. Reflecting on those formative years, Wüsthoff describes them as the experience that shaped everything that followed: without Faust, he says, he would never have made this record in the way he has today. Produced by Onnen Bock…
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JP Harris has always understood that old songs are not relics or something to be appreciated from afar. They are passed down from one generation to another by people who alter them simply by singing them. On 
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Projecting energetic alt-rock across the globe, Sydney group The Buoys channel anthemic melodies and an unmistakable chemistry on their sophomore record Concrete Cowboy.
Strawberry Guy is the name used by Welsh-born, Liverpool-based artist Alexander Stephens for his softly delivered, hyper-melodic symphonic pop. He used to be the keyboardist in The Orielles but left to release his debut solo album back in 2021 and has spent the last five years readying his second album, Give Me a Dream.
Soft-spoken singer/songwriter 
Despite the widespread popularity of reggae music in the UK, following its explosion onto the international music scene in the late 1960s, many of those in charge of Britain’s mainstream media were reluctant to give the exciting new sound coverage, whether in print or over the airways.
An adaptive sense of ‘post-punk’ may be the most ‘way’ to file Chicago’s Axis: Sova, the trio of Brett Sova, Jeremy Freeze, and Josh Johannpeter. That’s if post-punk’s understood as an organ, living roots and branches in the wilds of all music. Rock is rich krovvy that froths in Axis: Sova’s veins, and they enjoy progressive tactics when spilling it.
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You know Fine Glindvad Jensen from somewhere. Perhaps you recognize the Danish polymath as the pitched-up voice echoing across Two Shell’s 2022 breakout “home”; maybe the hooks she wrote for that NewJeans EP got stuck in your head. Perhaps you’re familiar with her cohort at Copenhagen’s prestigious (and publicly funded) Rhythmic Music Conservatory, where she shared the halls with Smerz, Erika de Casier, ML Buch, and Astrid Sonne, among others. Her dusky alto may remind you of Hope Sandoval, or Lana, or the beautiful stranger who covered Nancy Sinatra at your local dive’s open mic—or did you imagine that? The great trick of her beguiling second solo album, 
Back in the year 2000, The Stooges’ proto-punk classic Fun House was given the seven-disc 30th-anniversary box-set treatment. However, 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions wasn’t your typical canonization project. There was no treasure trove of previously unreleased songs, no alternate arrangements to give us insight into the band’s creative process, no unearthed live recordings to transport us back to that particular moment. 1970 effectively locked you in the studio with The Stooges as they burned through, say, 15 consecutive takes of “Down on the Street,” gradually beating the song into fighting shape as if they were enrolled in some merciless rock ‘n’ roll bootcamp. After listening to the song over and over for the better part of an hour…
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