The cryptic, ethereal nightmares of Grouper were given new, haunted life via the hushed and chilling set performed by Squirrel Flower in early 2025 in Chicago. Live at the Top Note Theatre firmly establishes Ella Williams as Grouper’s natural heir.

Ava Brennan is one of the best guitarists in Chicago. Today we’re thrilled to premiere the heady and heavy “Event Horizon,” Brennan’s latest since last summer’s “Home.”

Western Mass legends Bucket return with some new EPs and a new song out today.

Post-Trash’s Charlie Bailey sits down with Chad VanGaalen to talk about Calgary, the unique perspective of aging in the rapidly modernizing music scene, and how making art stays with you no matter what. 

Slippers’ pop style is exceedingly charming and full of bright sunshine, but these songs are full of bite and menace that work extremely well. It’s what makes Slippers 08 so compelling.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Rusty Santos is an acclaimed and eclectic producer known for working with mid-aughts projects like Animal Collective, TV on the Radio, Beach House, DJ Rashad, and more. Psycho Horses is his latest LP, which he describes as his “antidote to sleepwalking.”

Youbet finds Nick Llobet asserting himself with bold physical soundscapes and a profound lyrical intensity. This record is the sound of a band that continues to grow in their ever-expanding and hypnotic musical universe.

Iceage’s first record in five years sees them at their tightest and poppiest. Sharp and melodic, For Love of Grace & Hereafter is the Copenhagen group’s most tender release yet.

On Almost Waking, Orcutt and Fratti’s practices converge spectacularly. Weaving abstract electric six-string work with rich acoustic bowing, this eight-track collection transforms adversarial, jagged improvisation into sheer elegant instinct.

Just in time for the next heatwave, Chicago’s Sprite return with Spriite, their exceptionally titled second EP. Recorded at Radon Ranch with engineering from Ben Grigg), the quartet tear through four bent and detached songs, bringing a hazy mix of shoegaze, slacker pop, and alternative rock muscle.

Lupo Città’s INVERNO is true “band” music — not a singer/songwriter-led team, but collectively built, with the sum being multiplied by the powers of its individual parts. 

The Chicago project’s jammy cluster of interesting rock music is intensely charming and nonnegotiably on the jukebox all night long. Red Hot Photo Committee contains punk’s out-of-fucks heart with a rock n’ roll soul.

With their latest, Bullseye have slowly, deliberately shown us that rehashing the past means something if you're fearless, fun, and dedicated to the things that always work.

Oddfellows played some local shows and released one EP before moving on to form some of the more important power-pop and punk bands of their era - The Marked Men, Radioactivity, Mind Spiders, and The Reds, among others, but the time has come to return to where it all began.

With their first LP How My Own Voice Sounds, New York-based duo Sub*T offer an introspective journey through the process of understanding oneself.

Friko’s latest record is a searing reflection on the never-ending nature of life’s mysteries. The Chicago band finds hope in constant motion, fighting through uncertainty to chase contentment while battling the ambiguous nature of the unknown. 

It would seem Josaleigh Pollett’s musical evolution continues on If I Let It Quiet, a fantastic record that embraces gorgeous art pop (leaning on the pop end to fantastic results) and soft focus synth experimentation. Due out on July 24th via Audio Antihero, the avant-pop album is deeply focused.

OTOBO’s doomer-prog ticks like a time bomb, and “iOpen” sets the tone for the Albany three-piece’s white-hot motorik punk LP Inside Machines. Today, we’re thrilled to premiere the ad-spliced, nature-prefaced video for “iOpen.”

Les Claypool is one of the most creative eccentrics of the modern era, and his latest album under the Claypool Lennon Delirium moniker does much to cement that status. It’s arguably the spaciest album of his career, and perhaps the best of his collaborations with Sean Ono Lennon. 

On a rainy evening before their Chicago show in April, Telehealth chatted with Post-Trash about the state of Seattle, food delivery robots, and quitting the American dream to chase your own.

Barcelona-based Deaf Star make the shoegaze resurgence their own. Today, Post-Trash is thrilled to premiere “Dim Times,” the third and final preview before Deaf Star’s debut LP.

With melodies that stick like glue and a playbook for fluid grooves that split the difference between alternative rock, dream pop, and indie rock, Henry Grant’s music is swirling yet grounded. “Blue Circle Park” is a blissful look at the less than blissful privatization of public spaces in NYC.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Neptune’s Core have a bit of a “your favorite band’s favorite band” reputation in the Windy City, and we could not be more excited to be premiering their latest single and video “Lemon Car.”

With their debut LP Power of Now, Season 2 make their mark with a bouncy and explosive DIY-style that fully leans into a chaotic tangle of bubbling anxieties.

Post-Trash’s Sam Cohen chats with Eli Schmitt about the Chicago scene, zines, radio, and the Red Xerox compilation.

This Dismal Village offers an intentional DIY sound directed by first-takes. Moving away from digital editing and meticulous crafting, humanity is ingrained in Urq’s latest for Exploding in Sound.

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.