The Jefferies are already gathering a fan base with their off-the-wall repertoire and quirky stage presence. Consisting of Jeffery Klier on vocals, Xeth Feinberg on guitar and James Bell on drums, the trio lacks a bass player and, to be honest, a singer, but Klier's plain-spoken not-quite poems are delivered with a dry wit over Feinberg and Bell's catchy riffs in a way that simultaneously rocks and amuses.
Momma 2026 Tour Dates (New Shows in Bold): 05/12 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia *^ 05/13 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner * ^ 05/16 - Portland, ME @ All Roads Portland 06/05 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls Theatre ~ 06/07 - Toronto, ON @ All Things Go Toronto 08/01 - Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza 08/05 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight # 08/08 - Seattle, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party 08/09 - San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands 08/13 - San Diego, CA @ Soma Side Stage @ 08/14 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether % @10/07 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount +10/10 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club +10/13 - Tampa, FL @ Jannus Live +10/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade - Heaven +10/16 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues +10/17 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's +10/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren +
Yard Act have announced their third album, You're Gonna Need A Little Music, which will be out July 17 via Island. They made it with Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Wolf Alice), and it was recorded mostly live in studio between Leeds and Los Angeles.
Fire From The Hip expands on the raw indie rock energy of his debut while pushing into broader, more dynamic territory. If LP no. 1 was an opening statement, then his sophomore release plays more like an evolution built around the energy of collaboration and the nostalgia woven throughout Wolfhard's songwriting.
Roses serves as Widowspeak's seventh album and their first in four years following 2022's The duo, comprised of married couple Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, also welcomed their first child in between albums. The new project was inspired by the minutiae of daily life, the significance of the insignificant, and everyday rituals.
Indie veterans of Montreal have announced an expansive 2026 North America tour set for June through August. Cormae and Sloppy Jane will serve as openers on select dates for the Kevin Barnes-led band. Spanning 36 dates, the summer run kicks off on June 19th in Athens, Georgia, with subsequent stops in major cities including New York City, Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC.
American Football's highly anticipated LP4 arrives on May 1 via Polyvinyl, and after sharing the 8-minute first single, "Bad Moons," they've revealed a few more details about the album. It was produced by Sonny Diperri and features guest vocals from Brendan Yates of Turnstile, Caithlin De Marrais of Rainer Maria, and Wisp.
Working in the vein of "laptop twee" acts like friends& and Worldpeace DMT, who fuse the genre-smashing maximalism promised by hyperpop with the whimsical optimism of '00s buzz bands, the material on their 2025 album Shy at first is as dense and dynamic as the songs you try to compose in your imagination.
Ratboys ripped into much of their fantastic new album, Singin' to an Empty Chair. Highlights included the opening trio of "Anywhere," "Penny in the Lake," and "Know You Then," as well as "The World, So Madly" and "Light Night Mountains All That." Prior to "Burn It Down," Steiner spoke out in opposition to the actions of ICE, with "Fuck ICE" actually written on the setlist and the crowd applauding the condemnation.
Like many of the project's lyrics, it's less of a command to the audience as it is self-directed. Styles knows there's no catharsis without immersion, and on his new album, he is in desperate need of release. That release arrives most powerfully on tracks like "Season 2 Weight Loss," where a frenetic breakbeat gives way to something raw and urgent, or "Pop," where the rush of new love tips into near-panic.
West builds most of the songs around a single repeated chord, strummed high up on the neck. Her band populates the arrangement with everything else she needs-bass licks, chord changes, dynamic surges-while West sends her voice into the song's darkened corners and curls her mind around whichever odd idea grips her.
The first, "JCMF," is a rebellious song about Jesus punishing those who are cruel and helping the children upon his return, while the second single, "No More Darkness," calls for a return to the light and a pursuit of goodness. In a press release, Sparhawk explained that "JCMF" is an older track that he's played on the road for the past year.
This is by far the biggest release week of the year so far. Amanda and I highlight 12 new releases below, and Bill tackles another five in Indie Basement, including Cardinals, Luke Temple & The Cascading Moms, The Paranoid Style, the Wall of Voodoo 1983 demos collection, and the expanded reissue of Velocity Girl's ¡Simpatico!. And in addition to these reviews, Dave and I talked a lot about all this new music on today's episode of BV Weekly.
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