Six solo albums into a career that also includes numerous collaborations, her work as a member of Red Sparowes, Marriages and more, Emma Ruth Rundle has amassed one of the most impressive back catalogues of any current musician.
These Killing Times is another beguiling set of songs that run the gamut from dark to delicate, crushing to sombre, and feel far more dynamic than the raw minimalism of 2021’s Engine Of Hell. This may partially be due to the subject matter, with Emma looking more broadly at the current state of the world, rather than reflecting on her own personal journey.
Opener Powerless muses on her fears and disdain of those who govern us and is gorgeously melodic, but the deep, distorted guitars…
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Roger Clark Miller was guitarist/vocalist/co-leader in the highly influential post-punk band Mission of Burma. Their album Vs. was listed at number 19 in Pop Matters’ “50 Best Post-Punk Albums ever”, and number 24 in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time.” They even have a chapter dedicated to them in “Our Band Could be Your Life.”
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Memphis native, Kelly Hunt, sings with what Rolling Stone Country describes as “the lilting cadence of a folksinger born somewhere far away, sometime long ago.” Indeed there is a patina to her sound, especially when she opts for her Depression-era tenor banjo—a calf-skinned instrument whose origins supposedly date back to a man named Ira Tamm and his dog-and-pony show in the 20s and 30s. That mysterious banjo, with its warm, soulful sound, plays the starring role in her 2019 debut album, Even the Sparrow, which was a finalist for the International Folk Music Awards “Album of the Year.”
Two jazz titans conjure the golden spirit of two earlier jazz titans on 2026’s 
The legendary guitarist Robin Trower release his new album, 
Since the early 2010s Lorely Rodriguez has cut a restless, inventive figure. She’s slipped from raucous pop to silkier sounds, explored her Honduran-American heritage and, on her last album, flipped the staple awards season phrase “for your consideration” into a full-frontal club-pop meditation on uneven relationships.
For music that is so unashamedly beautiful, there is something distinctly unnerving about The Meaning of Flowers, the fifth studio album from Danish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer Agnes Obel. The record, Obel’s first since 2020’s Myopia, reflects her experience of pregnancy and motherhood, with influences including Hannah Arendt, Danish pop music from the 1980s, and the soundtrack to Don’t Look Down.
Ohio’s punk scene is well-known for many things: hyperactive egg punk, indignant hardcore, and every style of jangle pop you can think of, just to name a few. Trippy, motorik-heavy meditations, not so much. But as the saying goes, there are always exceptions that prove the rule.
Half studio recordings and with side B taken from a live set at City Winery, this finds ’80s Hoboken contemporaries and longtime friends 
Haken underwent a sea change in January 2026 when guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green left the band and formed metal band Tiktaalika. It forced them to regroup and reconsider where they’d been as both a band and as individuals. 
The Homesick have never been a band particularly interested in standing still. This adventurous Dutch trio has spent its career twisting post-punk, krautrock, new wave and experimental pop into something restless, strange and frequently exhilarating. Curiosity is their compass, and convention has never been much of a concern.
UK alt-folk group Stornoway release new album 
German experimental ambient duo 
…A major downtown transit hub, Chicago’s Union Station occupies an archaic building that is poorly designed, often crowded, and notoriously associated with delayed commuter trains. Sections of it are literally falling apart.