Five new tracks about what we carry with us - memories, identities, relationships, and the communities we find along the way Music can hold onto things that are difficult to put into words. A relationship that has changed, a version of yourself that exists only onstage, a song an audience refuses to let disappear, or a community that starts on a sidewalk and eventually reaches far beyond its original home. This week’s - On This Track Midweek Listening 11 - five tracks approac

Five releases shaped by love, ambition, groove and the art of staying true to yourself. Some songs arrive with a story already attached to them. Others ask for a little more patience, letting their ideas take shape through repetition, rhythm or a feeling that’s difficult to put into words. This week’s On This Track: Weekend Listening 13 brings together five different approaches to songwriting and sound: Riley Green’s country storytelling, Shed Seven’s sweeping love song, Goos

Five releases about artistic survival, love, self-reinvention, and the pressure to keep moving. German-language music can hold a lot of different worlds. Some songs put complicated feelings into plain words; others question what it means to keep making art when the rewards are uncertain. For the first On This Track: German Voices 1, we’re bringing together five releases that approach their subjects from very different directions. Keele return with "Meinetwegen", an album shap

Five independent releases about creative resistance, summer memories, emotional honesty, DIY communities and finding perspective when life feels overwhelming. Music can be a way of pushing back, holding onto a moment, or trying to make sense of something that doesn’t have an easy explanation. This week’s On This Track: Midweek Listening 10 brings together five releases that approach those ideas from very different directions. SlowKiss bring a feminist DIY attitude to their ra

Five new releases about attachment, change, uncertainty and the messy space in between. Some songs are about knowing exactly where you stand. Others are much more interested in what happens when you don't. This week's On This Track: Weekend Listening 12 moves through that uncertainty in very different ways. Ra Ra Viper's new album "Ra Ra" captures the feeling of moving forward while trying to hold onto the people and places that shaped you, while personalheartbreaker and Some

Five new discoveries looking at anxiety, burnout, intimacy, political awareness and the strange ways music helps us make sense of the world around us. Music does not always have to be explicitly political to tell us something about the time we're living in. Sometimes it is there in a song about a relationship, in the exhaustion of touring, or in the feeling that the world outside has become too much to process. This week's On This Track: Midweek Listening 9 brings together fi

Five new discoveries moving between post-punk, chamber pop, dark alt-pop, electronic indie and melodic punk. Some songs arrive with a lot going on around them. A new album, a story, a video, a whole world of references. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 8 five picks all have that, but the songs themselves are what kept pulling me back. American Motors look at a world that feels increasingly out of date, Loren Berí turns the idea of being in the background into somet

Five new releases moving through love, heartbreak, experimentation, anger and complicated attachment. This week’s On This Track Weekend Listening 11 selection moves between indie rock, country, experimental pop, goth-leaning psych-rock and indie pop. The five songs all deal with emotions that are difficult to put into simple terms - from the distance between existing and feeling to the messier sides of love, self-doubt and anger. Armlock - “Half Time” Armlock by Bridgette Win

Five new discoveries moving from dark alt-rock and folk-pop to jazz, melodic punk and post-electronic grooves. Five releases, five very different ways of dealing with what happens when life gets complicated. This week's On This Track: Midweek Listening 7 moves from Autumn Luz's unsettling “Tattered” to Riley Max looking back on a difficult first year at Harvard, before Knats take a jazz track into DnB territory with corto.alto. Burntmill Ghosts turn self-doubt into melodic pu

Five artists we discovered during our first two days at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin. Pop-Kultur Festival is the kind of festival where it is difficult to leave with just one impression. Across our first two days, we moved between experimental performances, electronic music, dark pop, jazz, soul and artists who seemed to be working somewhere in between. Some sets were intimate and quiet, others turned the room into a dancefloor. There were performances that felt closer to theat

Five new discoveries spanning indie dance, punk history, strange synths and folk. Five releases, five very different ways of looking at music. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 6 moves from Friendly Fires' first new music in seven years to Basement's hard-won return, then steps outside the usual song format with Naomi Petersen's newly announced photography book. From there, Studio G takes us somewhere considerably stranger before Steve & Ginie Jackson bring things b

Five new releases about desire, identity, change, heartbreak and finding your way forward. Some songs pull you in straight away. Others take a little longer, and sometimes it's the detail that makes you stay. This week's On This Track Weekend Listening 10 moves from complicated desire and Korean indie pop to finding confidence, looking back after thirty years and making peace with a difficult past. Five very different songs, but each one has something personal at its centre.

Five new releases about heartbreak, change, second chances and the things we carry with us. The five releases in this week's On This Track: Weekend Listening 9 move from a record that waited twenty years to be heard to new music about dating, heartbreak, old songs finding a new shape and everything that happens when life doesn't quite go as planned. They don't sound alike, but each one gave me a reason to listen again. FLEUR ROUGE - “Small Talk” Photo by Fleur Rouge I think m

Four new releases moving from theatrical metal and art rock to alternative guitars, folk-punk and uncompromising hardcore. Four songs. Four completely different moods. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 5 moves from fantasy-fuelled metal and theatrical art rock to expansive alternative guitars and folk-punk chaos. There's plenty of noise here, but each artist uses it differently - sometimes to build a world, sometimes to work through something personal and sometimes

Five new releases proving that there's more than one way to move forward Five artists. Five completely different ideas. That's what made putting this week's On This Track Weekend Listening 8 together so enjoyable. From warm electronic pop and melodic punk to cinematic garage rock and modern alternative music, every release brings something different without losing sight of what matters most: writing songs that stay with you. JES - "(You Make Every Day Feel Like) Sunday" Photo

Three new independent releases worth adding to your week Three songs. Three completely different moods. In On This Track Midweek Listening 4, we move from hypnotic electronic production to hook-filled indie rock and thoughtful alternative guitar music, proving that some of the week's most interesting releases don't need a full album to leave a lasting impression. Sushee - "DECEIVE ME" Photo by Sushee Some electronic tracks build towards a drop. "DECEIVE ME" is more interested

Five new songs that prove moving on rarely sounds the same Some songs arrive with quiet reflection. Others ask you to turn the volume up and keep driving. This week's On This Track Weekend Listening 7 brings together five new releases that approach change from very different directions. Whether it's rebuilding after depression, letting go of a relationship, questioning your own thoughts or finding freedom in the middle of uncertainty, each artist reminds us that moving forwar

A slow-burning dream pop track that rewards patience with an unexpected, emotionally charged finale. Some songs pull you in immediately. Others take their time. "The Difference" belongs to the second group, unfolding so naturally that its biggest moments arrive almost without you noticing. In On This Track 33, we explore how Lora Mouna transforms themes of dissociation into sound through a slow-burning arrangement, floating vocals and an unexpectedly powerful finale. Photo by

Sin Circuit pitched "Pay My Tuition" as a playful EDM release. One question about the production led to a much bigger conversation. Editorial Review | Partner Feature In On This Track 32, we explore Sin Circuit's latest single "Pay My Tuition" and the ideas behind one of the project's most talked-about releases. When Sin Circuit introduced ”Pay My Tuition” to INDIENOXZINE, Seth Walker described it as a high-energy EDM track with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and a club-ready sound.

Five new releases exploring where independent music goes next Not every great release demands attention the same way. Some arrive with a huge chorus. Others take their time. This week's On This Track Weekend Listening 6 brings together five artists who couldn't sound more different, yet each reflects a different corner of today's independent music scene: from hardcore communities and alt-country storytelling to improvised collaboration, personal grief, and the tension between