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Bigger Than They’ve Ever Been, Turnstile Aim For the Stratosphere on NEVER ENOUGH

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Grant Sharples

The centerpiece of Turnstile’s new album, NEVER ENOUGH, is “Look Out For Me,” a seven-minute opus that begins with their signature hardcore crunch, which slowly morphs into a muted Baltimore club beat halfway through. It’s an ambitious track from its runtime alone; that’s more than a quarter of 2018’s Time & Space. But it’s that lofty sense of ambition that allows Turnstile’s fourth album to truly soar.
Great Grandpa Get A Little Country

Mar 26, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

In an indie-rock landscape where everyone’s getting twangier and twangier, seldom does a band come along that subtly nods to alt-country rather than diving in headfirst. Great Grandpa’s third album, Patience, Moonbeam, dishes up flourishes like the plucky banjo in “Ladybug” and the stomping cadence in “Kiss The Dice,” but augments those details with thick guitar distortion and crashing choruses.
All The Best New Indie Music From This Week

Mar 25, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it. While we’re at it, sign up for our newsletter to get the best new indie music delivered directly to your inbox, every Monday.
The Tubs Wrestle With Grief

Mar 19, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

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All The Best New Indie Music From This Week

Mar 18, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it. Every week, Uproxx is rounding up the best new indie music from the past seven days.
Indie Mixtape 20: Dutch Interior Plays ’Moneyball’

Mar 12, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

A Dutch Interior song can be many different things. That’s because the Los Angeles band approaches music-making as an egalitarian affair, not as an abstract ideal but as tangible praxis. Five of its six members — Conner Reeves, Jack Nugent, Davis Stewart, Noah Kurtz, and brothers Shane and Hayden Barton — sing lead vocals or have lyrical credits on Moneyball, their first album for the revered indie label Fat Possum.
All The Best New Indie Music From This Week

Mar 11, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it. While we’re at it, sign up for our newsletter to get the best new indie music delivered directly to your inbox, every Monday.
Miya Folick Finds Enlightenment

Mar 5, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

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All The Best New Indie Music From This Week

Mar 4, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it. While we’re at it, sign up for our newsletter to get the best new indie music delivered directly to your inbox, every Monday.
Indie Mixtape 20: Cornelia Murr ’Runs To The Center’

Feb 26, 2025 | uproxx.com | Grant Sharples

Much like Justin Vernon secluded himself in a cabin in remote Wisconsin, New York-based songwriter Cornelia Murr absconded to a town in Nebraska called Red Cloud, home to fewer than 1,000 people. Whereas Vernon set out with the goal of making an album that reflected the wintry scenery, Murr’s sole objective was to restore a dilapidated house and, hopefully, herself. She emerged recentered, but in that same process, she made her first full-length album since her 2018 debut.