Grant Maloy Smith’s WILD WEST: AMERICAN STORIES is an 18-song double album that uses America’s 19th-century westward expansion to create a project focused on historical storytelling through songwriting and organic instrumentation, alongside a hardcover companion book written and illustrated by Smith himself. The album delves into events from the 1800s like the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the transcontinental railroad, the Pony Express, the Gold Rush, t

Matt Jones & The Bobs' return after a decade apart with their self-titled second album which brings together 14 songs that explore love, regret, family, loss and the resilience needed to keep moving forward through different periods of life. Formed at Radford University in 2011 and reunited in 2024, The band goes back to its Americana, folk and Southern rock roots while adding some traces of '90s alternative rock, grunge-influenced guitar work and fuller instrumentation acros

Here We Go by The Shim Shams is a 10-track debut record that takes a look at love when it is most complicated by touching on themes of rejection, emotional support, unresolved feelings, loneliness and the desire to be understood, while highlighting these experiences differently across the songs. Recorded at Third Eye Studios in September 2025, with David McRae in charge of the mixing and mastering, the album brings together tracks like “Stay With You,” “Last Night,” “Another

Celestial Skies are back with their third album, Today’s Malaise, which reflects on modern life in 2026 across 12 indie pop songs. Across the album, the tracks take a look at phone addiction, brain rot, influencer culture, Ozempic, beauty standards, immigration politics, quick fixes and the difficulty of remaining hopeful when the news continues to paint a bleak picture of the world. Recorded with a full live band and string section at Blueprint Studios in Salford before bein