Glass Rabbit make the pressure audible on “Damn Shame”. The new single begins with intimacy, then gives that closeness somewhere to go: into a heavier, noise-driven finale earned by the tension before it. “Damn Shame” places the Portland quartet at the intersection of dream pop, shoegaze and noise rock, examining shame, repeated behaviour and conflicting emotions. Becky Phillips leads on vocals and bass; Scott Crawford contributes...

Some songs are like a time machine. You press play, and suddenly you’re somewhere else, some other time. Maybe it’s a smoky bar in the 1970s, a sweaty punk club in the 80s, or, in the case of “Oh Denise,” the new single from Ken Woods and The Old Blue Gang, a dusty dancehall on the outskirts of Austin, Texas, sometime in the not-too-distant past. The...