#HotTakes | Week of 08.17.26

Featuring: Squirrel Flower, Old Crow Medicine Show, Blythe Woods, Pug Johnson, Brother Bird, Friko, Jack Larkin, Taylor Ashton, Wishy

#HotTakes | Week of 08.10.26

Featuring: Rayland Baxter, Israel Nash, The Suitcase Junket, Jonathan Something, JP Harris, Royal Blood, Castle Rat, Jawdropped, Jacob Jeffries (ft. Vulfmon)

#HotTakes | Week of 08.03.26

Featuring: Imperial Teen, Riley Downing, Way Dynamic, Kam Franklin (ft. Kevin Morby), Margo Cilker, The Avalanches (ft. Portraits Of Tracy), Jawdropped, Slimdan, Pokey LaFarge, Palmyra

Hippo Campus Somehow Blew Up And Stayed A Secret At The Same Time

I think about that a lot honestly, how a band can have a song sitting at 137 million streams and still feel like something you have to put people onto. Landmark was my way in, same as it was for a ton of people, that's just how the

Mixtape | July 2026

Somewhere around the fourth or fifth pass through this month's pile I noticed half these songs are about money. Cheap beer, twenty dollar bills, imitation wood grain, diamond rings, a guy literally wandering around Home Depot trying to price out a life he doesn't have yet.

#HotTakes | Week of 07.20.26

Featuring: Ruby of Thanks, Ian Kieffer, Alex Lambert, Mama's Broke, Dunsun

#HotTakes | Week of 07.13.26

Featuring: Riley Downing, Palmyra, Willi Carlisle, The Suitcase Junket, Tyler Ballgame, Jake Xerxes Fussell, The Bird Calls, Labrinth, Fantastic Negrito, The Linda Lindas & Hayley Williams, STRANGE LOT

#HotTakes | Week of 07.06.26

Featuring: Son Lux, Wishy, Slow Pulp, The Womack Sisters, Madi Diaz, Django Django, Steven Dayvid McKellar

#HotTakes | Week of 06.29.26

Featuring: Troy Mercy, Jaco Jaco, Dinosaur Jr.. GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite, Kate Prascher, JP Harris

Mixtape | June 2026

Some months you know exactly what you're doing. This isn't one of those months. This one is more like okay, what am I actually doing, what do I actually want, what does any of this mean. Not in a crisis way. Just in a regular human

Photos | Deer Tick @ Royale

Bringing that good old Rhode Island charm with Irish roots to the Royale, Deer Tick proved that their music ages like a fine wine. The crowd couldn't get enough and kept asking for more! With all the craziness in the world right now, it always feels good to

#HotTakes | Week of 06.22.26

Featuring: Devon Gilfillian, Medium Build, Fruit Bats, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Riley Downing, Jim James, Pokey LaFarge, The Jayhawks, M. Woodroe, Sad Daddy, Nicole Atkins, Alela Diane, Aubory Bugg, Tré Burt