Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe featuring Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and Joe Cardamone (The Icarus Line) prepare electronic and experimental self-titled album out October 15 via Rare Bird/Kitten Robot Records

After the release of their debut 12″ earlier this summer, DARK MARK VS SKELETON JOE (Featuring Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and Joe Cardamone of The Icarus Line) are proud to announce their upcoming self-titled full-length album, out on October 15, 2021 via Rare Bird/Kitten Robot Records.  In addition, “No Continue Reading

New Wave icon Josie Cotton releases new album ‘Pussycat Babylon’ and music video for “Calling All Girls”

“Even as a little girl, I could see that females weren’t taken very seriously and that bothered me a lot,” says infamous New Wave icon Josie Cotton while exploring the roots of “Calling All Girls,” her new single from her new album PUSSYCAT BABYLON, released today via Kitten Robot Records.  “It Continue Reading

Los Angeles post-rock outfit Gypsum announce self-titled debut album out October 12th and release lustrous new single “Follow Me”

Los Angeles post-rock outfit Gypsum emerge with the announcement of their eponymous debut seven years in the making.  On August 17th, the band released “Follow Me”, the first track to come off this self-titled album (release date: October 12, 2021 via Sonic Ritual).  The track is a lustrous, percussion-driven indie rock tune that guitarist and vocalist Sapphire Jewell says was Continue Reading

Gift of Gab releases first posthumous single “Vice Grip” from the upcoming album ‘Finding Inspiration Somehow’ out September 10, 2021

When iconic emcee Gift of Gab passed away on June 18, 2021, he left behind not only an impressive legacy of music as one-half of Blackalicious and his own solo material but also a wealth of unreleased music, which includes Finding Inspiration Somehow, an album originally scheduled for release this Summer Continue Reading

Chuck Doom’s Saudade to release cover of Joy Division’s “Day Of The Lords” with Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe on vocals

Using the downtime that the pandemic has thrust upon musicians worldwide, multi-cultural and genre-blending group Saudade has spent a large chunk of the time working on a wealth of new material which they plan to roll out in the near future.  An evolving collective with bassist/composer Chuck Doom (Crosses, Team Continue Reading

Rapper, painter, and model Racquel Jones releases music video for “Hurt”

Coming off the heels of the release of her heart-stopping and ruthless new album IgnoRANT (Magnetic Moon Records), the multi-talented rapper, skilled visual artist, and accomplished model RACQUEL JONES is releasing the video for her song “Hurt.”  Every track on IgnoRANT tackles complicated issues that affect massive populations while dodging the Continue Reading

You, Me, And Everyone We Know sign to Know Hope Records and announce ‘Something Heavy’, their first album in nearly a decade

The concept of a multiverse is one that has recently exploded into the zeitgeist, but this is where fans of indie-punk stalwarts You, Me, and Everyone We Know have felt the most at home since the band’s inception. Each new incarnation of this project has featured a cavalcade of incredible Continue Reading

RATINOFF release new single and music video for “Take Me Away”

SoCal-based alt-rock artist RATINOFF (full name: Jay Ratinoff) has released his latest single “Take Me Away”, the second single and follow-up to the song “Light Me Up” from his upcoming album LET IT OUT (due out September 17 through CEN/The Orchard).  The new single premiered with FOLK N ROCK.  With “’Take Me Away’ I wanted to Continue Reading

Hybrid discuss their newest singles and music videos, their sonic journey as a band, their new album and what’s next

British electronic band Hybrid, composed of Mike and Charlotte Truman, have undergone many evolutions in sound since forming in 1995, at the height of the UK-led Breakbeat era.  Formed by Mike Truman, Chris Healings and Lee Mullin (Chris and Lee have since left the band), they started primarily as a Continue Reading

Ratinoff releases new single and video for “Light Me Up”

“’Light Me Up’ came out of frustration and anger,” says the SoCal-based alt-rock RATINOFF (full name: Jay Ratinoff) about his recently released new single.  “With everybody spending a lot of time indoors and working and going to school from home, there were a few instances where my neighbors at the Continue Reading

Norwegian singer Ina Wroldsen releases new single “Fires” from forthcoming EP ‘Matters Of The Mind’

Critically-acclaimed and award-winning artist and songwriter Ina Wroldsen is a straight-talking, uncensored, funny, honest and fiercely independent role model.  On her new single “Fires“,  the multi-platinum-selling artist tackles motherhood in that same emotionally-unfiltered manner and relates her feelings of it as a double-edged sword.  “A child is this amazing gift, but they’re only Continue Reading

Berlin-based genre-defying LOSERS release electrifying single “Wake Up” and announce forthcoming EP

Berlin-based genre-defying band LOSERS have unveiled their exhilarating single for “Wake Up.” The single is the newest track taken from the band’s upcoming EP- EP01 – out on June 28, 2021. Multi-instrumentalist Tom Bellamy says “Wake Up” is about the realization that to make positive changes and feel true joy that you have to experience pain and hardship and breakthrough the Continue Reading