Melbourne-based alternative rock outfit Reetoxa captures the dizzying heat of a serendipitous encounter on their highly energetic new single, "The Lisa Song." Frontman, composer, and lyric writer Jason McKee formally launched the project assembling a lineup featuring Kit Riley, Peter Marin, James Ryan, Jessica McPherson-Riley, and Terry Hart shortly after a life-altering night at the Forum Theatre. https://open.spotify.com/album/1ByKek4UnnfZ1CtcuqK7Da?si=afyDoW4eT1-m7rLxeZ391A During a Spiderbait concert, a radiant stranger stepped...

Angelo Ceriani's new album, "Lofi Weather," arrives not with a bang, but like a slow-moving front rolling in off Lake Maggiore, where I imagine his Somma Lombardo studio might catch the changing light. These ten instrumental pieces, curated from two decades of Ceriani simply making music (1995-2015, no less!), feel less like a planned collection and more like leafing through someone’s sonic sketchbook, found...