With the holidays just around the corner, you’d think festival season was long over. But Bristol had one last gem to offer, and it didn’t disappoint my time or my wallet.. The Simple Things Festival started out as a multi-venue music event in Bristol’s city centre and has steadily grown into a sprawling...

Minneapolis five-piece she’s green are cutting through the noise with serious momentum. Shoegaze, dream pop, or—as they’d have it—purveyors of “moss music,” they’re the latest young guns to ride the genre’s renewed popularity, amassing over half a million monthly Spotify listeners,...

June 2026 arrives with a packed slate of indie releases that span a wide range of moods, textures, and approaches. Across the month, established acts like Widowspeak, of Montreal, and Pond return with records that extend or refine their established sound, while newer or fast-rising names such as La Sécurité...