‘Life is Beautiful!’ and The Dears will fight to prove it
February 6, 2026
The Dears’ latest grandiose album is a response written out of desperation to hold onto some semblance of positivity and power.
The Dears’ latest grandiose album is a response written out of desperation to hold onto some semblance of positivity and power.
The Massachusetts-based artist’s latest project traverses through a seemingly glass-coated heart.
‘i’m am in dark places’ is for when everything in life becomes too much and you need some refuge from the ever-compounding madness.
The Chicago punk band’s debut album sounds like getting swept up in the wild tornado of this sick world.
The Lagos artist’s latest project is a liftoff into a dimension where harsh noise, electronica, and pop collide into a thick cloud of lo-fi production.
Minneapolis-based aviator and music maker Eric Mayson’s latest album explores the nature of a wandering mind through wandering genres.
The Houston underground cult legend’s latest album is a cathartic outlet for anyone who shares their hunger for a primal scream toward the establishment.
The Brooklyn-based folk-punk band created anthems for those who want to be more open but are too anxious as the world remains uncaring.
The Boston-based band’s album turns tragedy and anxiety into theatrical rock, surveying damages and the aftermath.
The Richmond-based pop singer embodies, dissects, and repurposes the Bad Bitch archetype on her latest album.
The renowned drummer and producer pushes his drums to the red signaling chaotic rides and his synths sound like air on other planets.
The Los Angeles-based singer’s latest EP feels like one big survey of the surreal as it twists, turns, soothes, and shakes.
The compelling rapper who doesn’t have to flex her authenticity’s latest album, ‘Pyrex Housecat,’ has style and nerve in spades.
The Boston-based band proves ska was never really a fad, but rather a scene for those who want good trumpet-heavy bangers to skank to and good vibes from good people.
The Berkeley-based artist’s latest album is a spirited throwback to the days of 70s psychedelic soul, disco, funk, and pop.
The London-based artist’s latest album is composed like a real-time journey from a dark heavy place to the stars.
The Bristol-based artist builds momentum using ancient African polyrhythms before building galactic synth arrangements.
The Dublin-based ambient artist’s latest release doubles as a lost vintage soundtrack to a horror B-movie and a deserted planet.
The New York-based avant-rock supergroup’s debut EP is an experience in questioning prior understandings of music.
The Houston-born, Brooklyn-based jazz and ambient composer’s latest release is approached from a place of mourning, softness, and gratitude.
By adding more heft and color, the Maryland-based producer dismisses the claims that female hip-hop is overly homogenous.
The Ohio-based band’s latest heavy synth punk album is for anyone who feels down and out.
The New York-based pianist uses his practices to showcase that music is a bonding experience.
While the Brooklyn-based artist can bend to current musical trends, she is not interested in doing it any other way but through her dark humor vision.
On his latest hyper pop-inspired release, the Ontario-based rapper speaks computer language and discusses hip-hop culture.
The prolific rapper, producer, musician, artist, and label boss of Cleveland Tapes’ latest release is not soul music that asks whats going on.
Bounce off the walls to the anthems on the Minneapolis pop-punk trio’s latest low-spoon punk opus.
The Oakland-based artist’s latest album sings its way through the never-ending nightmare we’re living in.
The New Jersey-based artist creates a subversive take on punk with a sweet ukulele that hides the venom underneath.
The Dallas-based producer and singer’s latest album is a scathing hell ride, reflecting what happens when the good girl only goes bad.
The backwoodz studioz’s jazz supergroup blends hip-hop, jazz, and electronica so well that it can be hard to separate.
The Ohio-based artist’s self-titled asks you to tear your heart open while dancing away the hurt of lost love with a new kind of pop that’s all their own.
The art-pop duo meets dark surrealist comedy group’s first full-length fits our current moment where anxiety, negativity, and controversy have reigned supreme.
The New Orleans-based artist is the latest in a long line of trans creatives who use their art to hold up a mirror to a broken society.
To listen to a punk project is to listen to a dystopian future spat back at a world that either is willfully ignorant of the hell within or for those feeling helpless to change it all.
The Baltimore artist’s latest opus is an audio meditation on both freedom and one’s bodily senses.
‘Soulja Rags & C2W Tags’ highlights what the Cincinnati rapper and producer can do until she becomes the next pop superstar.
The Boston-based producer and artist joins the early aughts tradition of sharing renditions directly with fans.
The Argentina-based neoperreo artist creates club music that aims to push your buttons.
Like the latest album’s art, the Oakland experimental producer combines multiple genres without disrupting the overall beauty.
Listening to the Michigan-based rapper, producer, and leader of the Hidden Garden Cult’s latest “data-crunched” project is like being a fly on the wall in his mind.
Electronic sounds constructed, melted and bent to their will meet a free-jazz fusion on the Philly-based duo’s latest album.
On his latest album, Pittsburgh’s F3ralcat, occasionally joined by his band The Wild, creates an explosive prog-rock experience.
The Georgia-based artist is your new go-to for a fleeting, introspective balance of psychedelic jazz, funk, and conscious hip-hop.
The East Coast duo’s latest album proves they can easily revitalize the sound of New York hip-hop.
Hazy and weary, the Baltimore duo does an after-party reflection on their latest EP.
Let Dewan-Dean Soomary’s debut ‘Teenage Sequence’ move you, motivate you, and radicalize you.
The Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist’s latest album is meant to sit in and live in as the music washes over you.
The Los Angeles-based artist’s latest album is another jewel placed upon his crown as an Afrofuturist producer.
Togetherness and the search for connection is a big reoccurring theme on Brian Walker’s latest album—whose sound swings from bar band to anti-folk to straight indie rock with cohesion.
Elliott Douglas’ Los Angeles-based band’s latest album successfully emerges with songs that do not sacrifice catchiness for darkness.
Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Jacob Rudin introduces the flute as an instrument that can fit into anything—hip-hop, EDM, psychedelia, smooth jazz, sunshine pop, you name it.
Chaotic, confrontational, cinematic, the Nigerian American artist creates an afro-futuristic film soundtrack you can also play at a club—if you are both brave and ambitious enough.
The Long Island couple’s latest release shreds, grinds, and stomps in a way that suggests that the men who will likely complain as they get bigger are better off stepping aside.
The Tio’tiá:ke/Montréal composer uses his latest album as a means to break the routine of working in isolation while embracing community.
Feral and bloodthirsty, the Los Angeles-based nu-metal band’s latest project is an audio baseball bat through one’s windshield.
The Boston-based producer and composer is back with an otherworldly soundtrack for the possibility of life in space.
The latest album is a sweet hello and an occasional revisit to old times with Daniel Denton.
The nu-funk artist’s latest jubilant and celebratory single, “Slay,” forces ass shaking and people bouncing.
The mystery behind Andrea Knight’s latest experimental album is one of the most intriguing parts.
Brought forth is a folk album that is dark, complex, delicate and necessary at a time where the world is looking to unpack their own emotional discomforts.
The prog-rock band’s newest EP is a therapeutic conversation between listener and artist concerning some of the most personal yet universal thoughts for a musician who wants to have a lucrative career.
A New Tomorrow is an album-long message: there will be hell coming your way and you won’t know why, but don’t ever let anyone tell you that you don’t have the right to love and celebrate yourself as you are.
Their latest albums respectively demonstrate a diversity of sounds and colors, and both find Dixon and Kassa flowing to music they feel the most at home on.
Darko the Super’s brand of hip hop is what would happen if you took your favorite psychedelic hip-hop album and decided it just isn’t far-out enough.
An audio equivalent to when the most mind-melting drugs (choose one) kick in and the trip begins very frighteningly and never lets up on the surrealism.
Building Something Beautiful For Me is a hell of a way to mourn, love and uplift an artist who is a cult favorite amongst followers.
Coppola address the topic of mental illness with more finesse and empathy for her and those in her position. In that, Imani reveals another power: fearlessness.
Me:You and their latest album continue building a world where freedom in music is equal to the total freedom of living life.
“Everyday that goes by is a tribute.” – “No New Deaths Today”
OHYUNG’s album emphasizes that ambient music requires patient ears, because where most hear repetition, others will hear a dive into something aesthetically interesting.
From her music to even her tweets, you really do get the idea that she will strike you cold in the same place where she will kiss the bloody wounds.
“We’re Still Here” can mean anything. It can be both the defiant scream at those who want queer people dead and gone, or it’s a sigh of resignation that they still exist in whatever transphobic country, city or state they reside.
‘FEELING BODY’ is about not only the hell of COVID but a newfound appreciation for one’s own health.
Bulli is a psychedelic pop/soul album that functions a lot like a broken attempt at a smile.
Glitter Moneyyy snarls and roars their way through a rap album that stands for women living in society’s most toxic slabs of shit and dares any patriarchal power that be to stop them.
What if sometimes, you just want to listen because of the sweet ass riffs and melodies? That isn’t a crime, right? Good. Because that is what SAMSON has in spades.
Grapefruit Radio, like Langston’s past works, is Langston employing, deconstructing, and twisting the English language and the common perception of rap and hip-hop as if it were the one kind of total freedom he could afford.
On Venus, Maya blends funk, R&B, and a bit of goth to build a world in which she is a gracious queen who could bear her teeth if she so chooses.
The new project by Simple Kid slowly trades his patchwork approach to psych-pop music for more live takes on old school psychedelia and glam rock.
My Shadow is a stylistically diverse bounce between garage rock, blues rock and pop punk.
The music Dark Smith makes is a potent mix of dream pop, grunge and punk with a shadow of goth hovering over the blackened brew.
