Exodus
Goliath
Released March 20th, 2026 on Napalm Records
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Continue readingThe thrash metal veterans keep on keeping on.
Exodus – Goliath
The New Pornographers – The Former Site Of
The New Pornographers
The Former Site Of
Released March 27th, 2026 on Merge Records
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Continue readingThis is a different New Pornographers than the one that existed in the past. This is not necessarily a good thing.
Dälek – Brilliance of a Falling Moon
Dälek
Brilliance of a Falling Moon
Released March 27th, 2026 on Ipecac
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Continue readingBrilliance of a Falling Moon presents the long-running underground duo as being the best at what they do, bar none, a glimmering dream of grimy ‘90s basement hip hop alive and well in the glittering corporate void of 2026.
Madeline Cash – Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash
Lost Lambs
Released January 13th, 2026 on Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Continue readingLost Lambs is an assured literary debut, the kind of book that presents a writer whose voice is vibrant and who isn’t afraid to balance intricate connections with an irreverent sense of humor. The noise around its launch says more about the insecurities of the publishing marketplace than it does about the novel itself. Lost Lambs ultimately stands on its own feet, as a sharp, funny, slightly overengineered machine that hums with its own sense of purpose and announces Madeline Cash as a writer worth keeping an eye on.
Marielle V Jakobsons – The Patterns Lost to Air
Marielle V Jakobsons
The Patterns Lost to Air
Released February 20th, 2026 on Thrill Jockey
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Continue readingThe Patterns Lost to Air is, in its essence, the sound of a composer re-learning to control a body that no longer fully cooperates.
The Paranoid Style – Known Associates
The Paranoid Style
Known Associates
Released February 13th, 2026 on Bar/None Records
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Continue readingThe Paranoid Style’s fifth full-length album defines the warm embrace of imperfection, a welcome relief in a music climate that can be too obsessed with exact details.
We Make The Village: The Kickstarter
Out now live and loud is the Kickstarter for We Make The Village, a new collection of short fiction by Canadian authors surrounding the theme of community, and what it means.
Put together by West Coast author Asha Jade Goodwin, this collection features a wide array of thoughts on what it means to be in and out of community with others. As per the Kickstarter page:
From rejection to acceptance, support to sacrifice; in this anthology, you’ll find a mix of it all, fiction and non-fiction, stories and poems. What does community mean? Who is a part of our community? How do we cultivate community in our own lives? What if we are rejected from our community?
We Make The Village will feature 40 stories from 30 Canadian authors and at least five original illustrations from a Prince George artist.
More to the point, We Make The Village will feature “Rooming Situation,” a new short story from me that was written during a period where I was in some despair about the state of the housing market and the future of how we live together. That period has not ended, of course, and it’s worth taking some time to think through the consequences of a world where you aren’t likely to be able to buy a house if you didn’t own one by 2021 at the latest. Multiple roommate living situations become a sort of forced found family situation, and while that can be difficult to deal with, there’s also a certain magic in the relationships that get formed.
Until one of them snaps, of course.
There are a lot of great reward tiers available for We Make The Village and it’s worth the time to go through them. In addition to getting the hardcover edition, you can also get collection boxes with stickers, bookmarks, and postcards, as well as multiple copies of the book that you can give as gifts. The authors are from all over Canada, so if you’re looking to keep your elbows up, you might as well go all the way, eh?
Continue readingcongratulations – Join Hands
congratulations
Join Hands
Released February 13th, 2026 on Bella Union
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Continue readingCongratulations’ Join Hands might not be groundbreaking, but it is a hell of a lot of fun.
Gorillaz – The Mountain
Gorillaz
The Mountain
Released February 27th, 2026 on Kong
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Continue readingAfter a string of albums that ranged from slapdash to merely good, Albarn returns refreshed and hungry to do something big.
Remember Sports – The Refrigerator
Remember Sports
The Refrigerator
Released February 13th, 2026 on Get Better Records
Per Spectrum Culture:
Continue readingThe first Remember Sports album in five years often feels like a band wrestling with its own past, tussling between sugary power pop and a more contemplative, rootsy sprawl.
