Projecting energetic alt-rock across the globe, Sydney group The Buoys channel anthemic melodies and an unmistakable chemistry on their sophomore record Concrete Cowboy.
Speaking on the origins of the nature of the album’s creation, the band state that “we were in the studio together when the phrase came to us: too many tabs open. That became the heartbeat of the record”. It is no surprise that the constant overload of information, lack of direction and social exhaustion of modern life drives a certain emotion to be produced in song. The Buoys’ new record aims to bottle these frustrations and release them in a song like ‘Kill You Back’ or ‘Alone in Vegas’ which speaks to modern day social fatigues in a remarkably succinct manner.
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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.
Ween is digging deep into its archives with Boognish Provides, a sprawling collection of seven previously unreleased concerts recorded during the band’s 
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…
Djrum’s 
A New Jersey native and former member of bands in New Jersey, Maryland, and N.Y.C. (where he attended grad school), 
In celebration of his 80th birthday, Sun Records and Jimmy Webb deliver a collection of previously unrecorded songs and demos that were hiding in his piano bench for decades, Yours for the Taking: The Found Songs of Jimmy Webb. Some of these songs were intended for specific artists who passed on them; others remained in the songwriter’s personal archive. Fred Mollin, his longtime producer, safeguarded many of these compositions and worked with Webb to revisit the original material and develop new recordings. There are 11 newly produced performances and a pair of original demos of songs that appear here. The tracks were cut in Nashville, New York, and Los Angeles. Webb’s piano-based compositions provided the foundation for new performances…
“How did all these people get in my room?” Frank Sinatra quipped when he strode onstage at The Sands’ Copa Room in January 1966 for his sold-out concerts, but, in truth, there was no doubt that it was Sinatra’s room. Las Vegas was his kind of town. Supported by Count Basie and His Orchestra under the baton of arranger-conductor Quincy Jones, the Chairman of the Board – who had recently turned 50 years old and entered the September of his years, was in his element. His electrifying shows were preserved on his very first live album, 
Between 2023’s 
The Cat’s Miaow started in 1992 as a home-recording duo, Bart Cummings and Andrew Withycombe knocking out songs on Withycombe’s four-track. Soon joined by Kerrie Bolton and Cam Smith, the quartet spent the next five years quietly, slowly working away in the suburbs of Melbourne. They’ve long been spoken-of in hushed tones in pop circles for their perfectly unadorned nuggets of gentle indiepop mastery, put to 4-track tape and drip-fed to the world a few decades back via 7” singles, cassettes and compilation appearances.
While 
Olivia Tremor Control’s 2026 album 
The Australian quintet Surprise Chef have made a batch of records that combine slinky nocturnal jazz, rubbery funk, head-nodding hip hop, echoing dub, and library music charm; on 2026’s 
Orchestra Baobab was founded in 1970 to serve as house band at Dakar’s Baobab Club. Between 1971 and 1987 they cut numerous albums fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms, Wolof griot traditions, mbalax, Congolese rhumba, and jazz. 1982’s internationally celebrated cassette Pirates Choice offered the depth and breadth of their musical range. It has been reissued internationally several times. After splitting in the ’90s, they reunited for 2002’s Specialist in All Styles. 2017’s Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng offered homage to OB’s late original vocalist. No less than six of the band’s former members have died, leaving alto saxophonist and musical director Seydou Norou “Thierno” Koité the only survivor from the original group. On