New Zealand's Best Bets debut album On An Unhistoric Night is here! In true Best Bets style, it's a smash hit of power pop, exploring hubris, hopelessness and purpose in life, pop culture detritus ...

HIGHLIGHTS Playful and smart, quietly surreal and unguardedly romantic, Model Shop (Seattle, Washington) evoke the soundtrack to a lost John Hughes film. With touchstones in 80s college rock, 90s ...

HIGHLIGHTS: Steeped in fuzzy guitars, budget keyboards, bongos and handclaps, new Monnone Alone album is an anxiety-peppered bubblegum pop singalong for the Zoom-generation. DESCRIPTION: Monnone ...

Christchurch/Auckland DIY'ers Jim Nothing are back with their debut album 'In The Marigolds'. The sound of the album has strong roots in the classic 80's and 90's indie rock of the land it was born ...

With its dry lyricism, warped fuzz guitars and buzzing synths, 'RF' is the sound of Rural France distilled; an ode to both the pop nuggets of the 60s and the collective shoulder shrug of the 90s. ...

From California rising indie music scene, Semi Trucks are the latest gem to brandish this blend of lo-fi bedroom pop that feels like the waves rolling ashore on a windless day. Semi Trucks, created, ...

Slack Times (Birmingham, Alabama) craft melodic, guitar driven songs that draw from a range of shared influences including early Athens, Georgia pop. DESCRIPTION Slack Times is a Birmingham-based ...

In 2013 Tristan dreamt George Harrison and Tom Petty were on motorcycles circling one of those huge roundabouts in Canberra. Their long hair was blowing as they sang "You Can't Hide in Time". The ...

HIGHLIGHTS Stockholm's Stephen's Shore are back with a brand-new EP entitled "Green", a colorful collision of jangly guitars and catchy melodies. DESCRIPTION Following on from 2016's "Ocean Blue" EP, ...

New Zealand's artist Ben Woods is back with his sophomore album 'Dispeller'. Woods' melodies bring to mind Scott Walker's dramatic tunefulness, while Dispeller's arrangements hit at the subtle, ...