mOXIE mOTIVE is taking ANIMOXIE - Starstone Saga: The Eternal Lives of Keket into the streets, pairing the 13-minute anime music video with a guerrilla QR sticker campaign across Chicago, Denver, and Boulder. Led by Matthew Nurse, the project uses glowing stickers as a direct entry point into the full video, turning each scan into a way of discovering the saga outside the usual release format. The video brings together five remastered tracks from last year’s Chakra Supernova

Final Days Society returned in 2026 with their fifth album, YOU CAN, a nine-track release due April 17 that brings the Swedish quartet’s post-rock foundations closer to indie rock, shoegaze, and vocal-led songwriting. Based in Växjö, the band has been active since 2006, carrying a DIY approach through years of European touring, appearances in Thailand and China, and past stages shared with God Is An Astronaut, Junius, EF, Lights & Motion, u137, and Leech. Their previous album

Han’s …the morning after is presented as a continuous piece where each track follows the same experience as it unfolds over time, with the sequence of songs reflecting a change in perspective instead of functioning as separate ideas. Written and recorded between October 2024 and July 2025, the album comes from a period where the writing happened in order, allowing the listener to follow that progression in the same way it was lived, with each moment connected to a different s

Freidrich$’s I Wanna Be Adored is part of a larger project that was carefully curated over a period of seven to ten years, unifying tracks produced in Chicago and Maribor into a continuous oeuvre. Instead of falling prey to formulaic methods, the tracks highlight different stages of the artist's creative process, where earlier recordings like “Yanking My Chain” focus more on showcasing the singer’s direct and unvarnished voice; later tracks take on a more reflective tone, em