ALBUM REVIEWS

Release Date: June 6, 2025 Label: Watch That Ends The Night It doesn’t whisper. It doesn’t ask. It demands. Black Noise, the latest album...

Will Toledo, known for his grand concepts, takes his music to a whole new level with The Scholars. This ambitious rock opera unfolds at the fictional Parnassus University, a surreal academic playground where characters grapple with spirituality, identity, and personal evolution. The album employs narrative structure and conceptual storytelling, drawing inspiration from postmodern indie music like Tommy or The Wall, but filtered through Toledo’s signature lo-fi anxiety and sha

If you’re not already keeping an eye on Taken By Tides, now is the time to fix that. The Texas-based alt-rock powerhouse just dropped their latest single, “A Thousand Lives,” and it’s a ferocious reminder that this band is ready to dominate playlists, stages, and hearts in 2025 and beyond.

At its core, Dream Into It feels like a celebration of Idol’s journey: part nostalgic reflection, part new adventure.

Rock icon Alice Cooper is officially bringing the band back together--literally. For the first time in over 50 years, the original Alice Cooper band lineup is reuniting for a brand-new studio album titled The Revenge of Alice Cooper, set to drop on July 25, 2025 via earMusic.

Heavy Lungs’ long-awaited debut full-length, Caviar, is a raw, aggressive, and chaotic testament to the band’s punk ethos — a feral, unfiltered snapshot of modern disillusionment. Clocking in at just under 40 minutes, this Bristol-based quartet’s record is a calculated riot: messy in all the right ways, urgent in its delivery, and saturated with a kind of manic energy that rarely gets captured in studio recordings.

Some albums cast a spell. hexed!, the second full-length from Manchester-based experimental artist aya, doesn’t ask for permission—it grabs you by the throat, snarls in your ear, and laughs as you lose your sense of time. It’s a beautifully deranged trip into the sonic psyche of an artist who’s as unfiltered as she is fearless.

MALICE MIZER is a band whose impact on the "visual kei" style of music and fashion cannot be understated

Lyrically, the album embraces discomfort, desire, and disillusionment — sometimes all at once.