Twenty-three years after his Sonic Recipe for Love, Steve Stav writes a playlist for the brokenhearted victims of another corporate holiday: the first Valentine’s Day of the second Trump era.

In the news today: Blur, Spoon, Vinyl, Hopscotch Music Festival, Pavement, Japanese Breakfast, American Football, Siouxsie Sioux, Cruel World 2023, Pavement, American Football, Bridget St John, Yoshiki, Sueños Music Fest, Andy Rourke, The Smiths, Blur, Reunion Tour

In the news today: Osees, Death Cab For Cutie, Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age, Riot Fest, The Cure, The Mars Volta, The Postal Service, Turnstile, The Sisters of Mercy, Andy Rourke, The Smiths, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer, Knower, Patti Smith, Pavement, The Walkmen, The National

It’s a perfect time to bring Sound Salvation to a wider audience via the Internet, albeit in a different form.

The Story of the Most Influential Radio Station in America

The Alarm came “marching on” through Orlando, and Michelle Wilson relived her 80s alternative heyday.

For the Kids (Partisan Records). Review by Jen Cray.

Tired of Tomorrow (Relapse Records). Review by Jen Cray.

International (Sacred Bones Records). Review by Alexa Harris.

Despite being dissolved for over two decades, Fletcher discovers how The Smiths, a band of four working-class kids from Manchester, created a fanatical following and left an iconic legacy that changed the music world.

LP (Susstones). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Jen Cray and a horde of bodies mosh to Frank Turner’s odes to life, love, and music at his headlining Orlando show – finally.

Hollow (Frenchkiss Records). Review by Eli Didier.

Covers 80’s. Review by Tim Wardyn.

Belong (Slumberland). Review by Scott Adams.

Dum Dum Girls top a promising indie rock bill that woos Jen Cray into downtown Orlando in the midst of St. Paddy’s Day madness.

Forget (Terrible Records). Review by Jen Cray.

Memories of an Echo. Review by Robert Sutton.

Medicine Show (Water ). Review by James Mann.