Versus Machine is an innovative and genre-blending rock band whose members bring together years of experience from diverse musical backgrounds. The band’s core is made up of singer/guitarist Stephen Tilley, bassist Michael James Stipe, and drummer Brian Doherty, with the group’s formation rooted in both past musical connections and newfound collaborations.

With Voyager to Voyager, Dead Meadow once again affirms their place in the pantheon of modern psych rock by pushing their sound to new heights, all the while honouring the deep creative bond they have shared through nearly three decades of melting minds worldwide. . .

Vida Vella will release debut album ‘Panorama’ on 21st March. We asked Luis Illades from Vida Vella about some releases that have influenced Panorama a lot.

The distorted, anxious and surrealist visual style of the album’s cover art (painted by artist Madalena Pinta) speaks perfectly to the album’s direct, albeit melted, psychedelic electronic post-metal. Riff after riff comes and goes, never wearing out its welcome.

Ahead of the release of Sometime in February’s new album ‘Where Mountains Hide’, we asked the band about 3 releases that have influenced them a lot in their musical career. 

Emmaleen Tangleweed’s music is more accurately described as a channelling than a song. Summoning stories of lost souls too tortured to let go, she cries and yearns as they no longer can, and yet, a silver thread of faith binds them.

White Willow’s Signal to Noise deserves to be on top of the list of albums with repeatable, desirable listens.

Olivares has always lived between worlds – immersed in the chaos of noise rock, while quietly drawn to the subtle complexities of electronic sound. After years of creating experimental rock, it was the deep, hypnotic rhythms of artists like Pole, Nicolas Jaar, Nils Frahm, Caribou and Floating Points that sparked a shift in his creative direction.

Like the lovechild of a David Lynch fever dream and a warehouse dancefloor at 3 am – The Shops are a perfect cure for anyone drawn to the mysterious corners of music.

Versus Machine is an innovative and genre-blending rock band whose members bring together years of experience from diverse musical backgrounds. The band’s core is made up of singer/guitarist Stephen Tilley, bassist Michael James Stipe, and drummer Brian Doherty, with the group’s formation rooted in both past musical connections and newfound collaborations.

NEON KITTENS, formed in 2022, draw their name from a misheard Ultravox lyric and are influenced by No Wave, PiL, On-U Sound, and ZE Records

The sound of Los Angeles shoegaze band OSNOVA could still be likened to walking alone on a dark night –it strides with confidence, masking an unstable and anxious edge –the sound of forward movement that is all at once evocative, determined and enveloping

One of those albums that’ll be played for a long, long time and keeping the sound, vision, and wonders John brought to the table with its storytelling and poetic structures that is like a movie set in the 1950s with gorgeous and chamber-like arrangements.

Deep Fade are Amanda Votta, Neddal Ayad, and Grey Malkin.  Their second album, Further, delves into themes of disintegration, loss, and distance, expanding on their debut Line Of Flight with a new sonic structure.

Photo: Giovanna Ferin Brighton-based singer-songwriter Juanita Stein has just released her fourth solo album The Weightless Hour via Agricultural Audio. Always in demand, the Howling Bells’ front-woman has just finished a UK tour supporting Evan D …