Most people still try to define Nada Surf by ‘Popular.’ Talk to the band’s drummer, Ira Elliott, though, and you realize how quickly he moves past it. He doesn’t disown the song from 1996’s ‘High/Low,’ but he’ll call it “kind of gimmicky” without much hesitation. And he’s not wrong. The real story of Nada Surf is what they did after the hit faded.

They came together in New Y...

Primitive Ring don’t ease you in, and ‘Lies From The Other Side’ makes that clear within seconds.

The new single, out now via In The Red Records, is the latest cut from their self-titled debut, arriving May 15. The video for the single was directed by Jernny Baumert, with animation and edits from Arturo Baston. The record itself was tracked in December 2025 at The Station Ho...

Adrian Jarvis does not write about illness as abstraction or metaphor, though Vile Jelly, published by Stairway Press, contains elements of both. What he offers instead is more direct and more intimate: a record of dependence, of systems quietly failing, and of the ways a life reorganises itself when sight begins to falter.

His account of living with glaucoma and cataracts i...

Larsen return with Decalcomania, their twentieth album, out now on Erototox Decodings.

What began as a series of sketches, fragments really, was carried into a more defined shape by William Basinski, whose presence is felt less as a guiding hand and more as a subtle pressure across the surface, stretching time, letting tones hang longer than expected, his saxophone lines thr...

Hermetic Delight’s ‘Adding Insult to Injury’ comes from ‘Vagabond Melodies,’ the band’s second album released last November via October Tone, but the video feels like like a late-night detour you didn’t plan on taking.

Directed by Laurens Saint-Gaudens and produced by Tamara Films, it opens without ceremony. Two bodies, shaken and not fully put back together, played by Atef ...