Houston-based psych-rock duo The Shrubs return with "Let Us In", a frantically catchy single that basically sugarcoats a societal breakdown in layers of infectious fuzz. https://open.spotify.com/album/4DHZnz49JHoaX6Ce0uAdd6?si=xvATg3GHRyS6lHn1pLjiNw Miguel and Sophie have a fascinating knack for dragging fifty-year-old analog reel-to-reels and gritty cassettes into modern digital landscapes. Here, they have engineered a massive, heavily distorted wall of sound that races forward with a sweaty, desperate urgency. You catch...

Nashville's Rising Star Jagger Whitaker Strikes a Chord with Authenticity and Musical Mastery "If I Know You" From the Nashville, Tennessee backyard to the country music forefront, a bright star named Jagger Whitaker shines, inevitably selling the craft of making music to his father, who taught him. Whitaker has long time been a fan of country rock music and his musical career brought him to this...