Indie OG Ted Leo hasn’t released an album since 2017’s The Hanged Man, but he continues to work all the time, sometimes posting new songs on Patreon or on Bandcamp. Leo wants to get back together with his backing band the Pharmacists in the studio, and he’s trying to raise the funds needed to make […]

The Grammys this year were anti-ICE. One of the program’s most notable moments this past Sunday was during Billie Eilish’s acceptance speech for Song Of The Year, which she accepted alongside her brother and collaborator Finneas. “I don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish […]

Every Ratboys album is good. The Chicago indie rockers have been in the game for six albums and 16 years, and they’ve only gotten better at their sound, which carries echoes of emo and pop-punk and alt-country and classic rock without fully steering into any of them. Their last, 2023’s The Window, was an outright […]