Some New-ish Releases
I don't think I've done any new releases updates this year, probably because, frankly, I haven't found it to be a particularly interesting or exciting year for new music so far (at least relative to 2025 , which I thought was surprisingly excellent). Anyway, let's start things off not with new music--see, already struggling to get worked up about 2026!--but rather a new 3-CD box set collecting 80s Paisley Underground artists and other related indie music of the era. The UK label Cherry Red , continuing its pattern of fantastic retrospectives, has put together This Can't Be Today , and it's pretty terrific. Yes, I'm biased; this is the music of my college years, much of it truly life-changing and stuff I still adore for sentimental reasons. But objectively, it's pretty great. You've got all the artists within the Paisley Underground scene , or at least working that same strain of 60s-retro jangly psychedelic pop--the Rain Parade , Long Ryders , Thre...
