Kelz has a new single Sometimes out today (3.22) through Brooklyn based Bayonet Records. The single features Alex Siegal, another artist we love. Check out our review of Sometimes. Bayonet was founded by Beach Fossils, which they release through. Kelz released her debut album 5am and I Can’t Sleep through Bayonet last year (May 6, 2022).

Hazel English posted an unexpected, “Surprise, new song coming this Thurs.” The surprise is a reimagined cover of Goo Goo Dolls’ Slide that opens with the second verse.

Stevie Nel has a new single out on Thursday called Spiral. He has release three single so far that have a great bedroom pop sound.

Cathedral Bells will be releasing a single + video on Friday. The song is called All Under The Sky. Their new album, Everything At Once, is coming on May 19 via Born Losers Records. Preorders for the album will be available at the end of this week. Born Losers is home of CD Ghost, Jaguar Sun, Midi Memory, Stray Fossa, Surf Rock is Dead, just to name a few.

Norwegian bedroom pop group Benedikt is also releasing a new single How Did I End Up Here on Friday. Benedikt’s album Why Are You Dreaming drops April 28.

Night Hikes are releasing their EP, called Perfect Wonder. You can hear two songs from the EP; check out the title track is on our Mixtape.

Øneheart is releasing a new EP called Broken on Friday. They just released a collaboration with Hotel Pools that we added to our Puddlegum Mixtape 003. (Hotel Pools also collabed with l i n x.)

Indie songwriter Matt Pond of Matt Pond PA has a new band called The Natural Lines. Their self-titled debut LP is out this Friday through the great Bella Union (Beach House, I Break Horses The Innocence Mission, and many names you’ll recognize). You can hear three singles from The Natural Lines album and find their music videos.

And can I run a synthpop blog without mentioning the new Depeche Mode album? Memento Mori is coming out Friday, bringing us twelve new tracks. This will be their fifteenth studio album since they began in 1981. Half of their albums came out between 1981 and 1991, before music shifted in the 1990s. Thankfully there have been plenty of singles, remixes, compilations, and live albums during their 42 years of existence.

Next week brings us new albums from Deerhoof, City and Colour, The Hold Steady, and The New Pornographers. The forthcoming Deerhoof album Miracle-Level was engineered by Mike Bridavsky (Lil Bub) of Bloomington’s Russian Recording.

We will update this post updated with more releases and song streams.

Who are we missing? Comment below!

The new Puddlegum Mixtape is out with a stack of new dream pop and shoegaze artists. Mixtape 003 begins in Norway and Sweden, and continues with nearly two hours of artists to explore.

Puddlegum Mixtape 003

32 Songs, 1 hour 59 minutes

1. Dråpe – French Canada
2. MARBLES – Heading Out
3. The Radio Dept. – You Fear the Wrong Thing Baby (Radio Edit)
4. H.MOON – Devotion
5. Phantom Youth – Dear October
6. MOTO BANDIT – Love Fang
7. Paradise Blossom – Wherever You Are.
8. Bodywash – Massif Central
9. Japanese Heart Software – Cyanide
10. Phantom Handshakes – Passport (How Far I Will Be)
11. Hibou – Night Fell
12. Night Hikes – Perfect Wonder
13. The Know – Me
14. two blinks, i love you – carnegie hall
15. semiwestern – Velvet Sea
16. Hether – Dreams
17. Mint Julep – Daydream
18. Lunar Isles – The Shore
19. Art School Girlfriend – Close To The Clouds
20. Øneheart & Hotel Pools – Timelapse
21. Divorce Court – 140
22. Night Tapes – Selene
23. Juke the Tiger – The Past Keeps Knockin’ On My Door
24. layzi – Idk
25. Krooked Kings – Coming of Age
26. Freak Slug – 27 Club
27. COOL HEAT – Forget
28. Phoria – Portland
29. Savagery – Void
30. S. Carey – Paralyzed
31. Ruby Haunt – Headland
32. Keaton Henson – The Meeting Place

GPT-4 and recording… What is it, and are they two things that should never collide, or does AI hold answers to our many questions?

We wrote a new Journal about this titled Can GPT-4 Give Us Recording Tips?

In the article we put GPT-4 (via Bing Chat) to the test by asking it intricate questions about a specific plugin and DAW.

Find out how it performed and whether or not it’s a viable tool for learning recording tips and techniques.