The mid-’80s were awash in action verb titled albums with the likes of INXS’ Kick, The Human League’s Crash, and the more obscure Van Dyke Parks’ Jump!. Aside from sharing the call to get moving, Sam Evian’s fourth solo album, Plunge, has little in common with the referenced albums.

Similar to Emily Sprague’s self-titled Florist album of a few years back, Adrianne Lenker’s woodshed approach on Bright Future brings warm and wonderful results.

Sticking with producer Brad Cook from Waxahatchee’s revelatory Saint Cloud, Katie Crutchfield continues her exploration of alt-country trails on Tigers Blood.

Rock chameleons Elbow are always looking to push the envelope and explore new directions regardless of genre, as long as the outcome is great music.

The year is 2024, and it’s something of a miracle that The Jesus and Mary Chain are still making music and defying expectations.

It’s been 15 long years since The Black Crowes have released an album, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson seeming to have parted for good after the release of 2009’s Before the Frost…Until the Freeze.

Nobody in indie rock has a knack for sing-along refrains like Dan Boeckner.

Following their previous, much anticipated and justifiably praised deluxe reissues of the first two 7 Seconds 12 inches (see my review of Walk Together Rock Together) and the first two Circle Jerks LPs, Trust has done it again by reissuing yet another crucial, timeless, West Coast punk rock classic that’s been long out of print.

Forgot About Me is Pouty’s official debut full length album, and it’s a brilliant, big-sounding throwback to ‘90s guitar rock.