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This is a record I should probably save for a Friday, but I am too impatient.

Kelley Stoltz is the kind of artist who never stays in one musical corner for long, which we can only appreciate.

Back in the ’00s, I was totally unaware of Andrew Taylor’s music.

For over fifteen years, St Louis, Missouri-based rock ‘n’ roll duo Bruiser Queen has been doing their own thing at their own pace.

It’s easy to accuse people like us, who mainly listen to indie artists on indie labels (or without a label even), of being elitist.

British Birds have built a new musical nest in their home port of Chorley, composed of quite a varied material.

Suddenly, there’s a new Paint Fumes EP, arriving unannounced and with little fanfare, yet sounding like CLASSIC Paint Fumes.

One thing is for sure: come year-end, ranking all the amazing power pop and rock ‘n’ roll records released in 2026 is going to be a problem.

Sadurn’s debut album, Radiator, was a record I overlooked in 2022, only to quickly become enchanted with it.

A.B.P. & The Spites, the Berkeley, California-based garage rock band led by singer-songwriter Adrian B Pedraza, is back with a single that hits home.

Once again, Wisconsin Anger Team casually launch a new album into the airwaves with zero marketing strategy.

Results from the past aren’t always the best predictor of success today, but in the case of Pressure Wheel, it’s no big surprise to see this level of quality and conviction.

It is far from a given that a second album will be as enjoyable as the first, but Wide Orbit pulls it off with admirable ease, at least that’s how it comes across.

Finally, some good news, and it comes straight from Oslo.

Fish & Cheap Records is one of those labels that makes it very easy to love vinyl again.

Allstar Racquets is likely a new name (at least it was to me), but for their twangy guitar sound, we have to go back to the heyday of MySpace, where P.J.

Fans of poppy punk rock should sit up straight and prick their ears, because a contender for new favorite band has entered the ring.

Talk about making an entrance.

Detroit Rock City strikes again: please meet CHECKER.

There’s something disarmingly open about Daredevil, the debut EP from Montreal’s Crimson99 aka Dominican-Canadian singer-songwriter Maria Brousseau-Labbé.

Following the live LP The Ride or Die of Dude Cervantes and The Panchos, the roots rockers from San Diego, California have now released their first studio album.

Thankfully, there’s still no shortage of loud guitars and big vocals, but David Delinquent & The I.O.U’S take it a step further.

Early August, Melbourne’s latest hypeworthy band Salmon Sisters dropped a pretty hot two-song teaser for the thing that came out this week: Taller Than Normal, a ten-song full-length that offers a playful take on garage rock-indebted punk.

Barely a year after their consciousness-expanding debut LP, The Crystal Teardrop return with another technicolour trip through the late-60s psych-pop well.

The XOXO’s (Sheffield, UK) sound not just like a band I would write about — part of me is convinced I already did.

Few can pull this off without it getting cheesy, but this maestro knows exactly where to draw the line, and that’s how Milk & Coffee‘s cheerful whistles and handclaps made my day a lot better than it was.

Twerp may not be the first band to announce they ‘wanna be a Ramone’, but damn it if the opening track of their new EP isn’t the catchiest thing I’ve heard recently.

Ten years after debuting with The Smackwave EP, Melbourne’s Spike Fuck releases his first full-length album, Evidence.

Gizmo are Charlottetown rockers inspired by the guitar-damaged pop of 1990s American slacker bands and their contemporaries on Canada’s east coast.

You know Gene Champagne as the drummer of Teenage Head, The Killjoys, and The Black Halos, but he also feels at home behind a microphone and guitar, as is once again proven on his first full-lengther, tellingly entitled Too Pop For Punk…Too Punk To Care (…

Bad Sports were one of my favorite bands in the world in the early ’10s.

If you thought you’d heard The Schizophonics by now, think again.

Whippets is yet another musical project in the extended Bobby Hussy universe.

For over a decade, this Norwegian rock ‘n’ roll outfit has been keeping the flame of 1960s beat alive, and Showtime Requests By Popular Demand finds them doing what they do best.

Not all new music is really new, as many artists cover songs.

It’s been a while since we did an album premiere here, but today we have a good one: a full album stream of Always Tired, the new Heavy Weather LP, which comes out October 7th on CD via Snappy Little Numbers.

There are more wantlist-worthy releases than time to cover them all.

Seven years after their No Disguise LP, New Jersey rock ‘n’ roll duo Tall Days returns with a full-length album entitled Breakers.

The last Psychic Flowers record came out five years ago.

Waterpistol?

As you would expect from recordings from the Easy Eye Sound Studios, McKinley James puts the past back on his dancing shoes.

Fields Of Plenty is the spellbinding debut full-lengther by Brooklyn, New York-based indie four-piece Rookie Mistake, DIY slacker rock of the highest order.

Massachusetts-based Collin Snow enters the Wantlist in the slipstream of Owen Adamcik, as another really young artist writing power pop that sounds like demo recordings of some of your favorite bands.

Ciao Lucifer is the feel-good project of Amsterdam-based songwriters/musicians Marnix Dorrestein (guitars, bass, vocals) and Willem Wits (drums, percussion, vocals, kazoo).

The Shower Puffs are a British rock ‘n’ roll duo featuring Alex Screamer handling vocals, guitars, and drums, alongside Will Baird on bass.

The fifth Hospital Job is here, their first since 2018.

Following his highly recommended Blue Love LP (number 8 on my 2024 year-end list), NYC singer-songwriter Lorne Behrman returns with If Heaven Didn’t Hurt.

New Orleans band Bellringer is fronted by Summer Newman, who sings, plays guitar and a little organ, and wrote most of the band’s second record, is this the afterlife, one of the more intriguing new releases this week.

What happens when a rock band starts rummaging through its own musical DNA?

Stardumb Records has been around for more than 25 years already, and while the label started with a clear focus on pop punk, its roster in 2026 has a much broader range.