December is here with sleigh bells, snow, and Best of 2025 lists everywhere you turn — and yes, we've rounded up our FUV Staff Picks of albums, songs, gigs, and discoveries. NOW, we wanna hear from ...

At the start of December, I sat down with Allan Pepper, co-founder of the fabled club, The Bottom Line. Pepper has co-authored a book with journalist Billy Altman called Positively Fourth and Mercer: ...

“Crying Over Nothing” is a great example of this. You can hear her working through the pain of missing someone while still wishing them happiness despite her own sadness. On "Heartthrob" she ...

The trio of Ian Richard Devaney (lead vocals, guitar), Aidan Noell (synthesizer), and Alex MacKay (bass guitar) has since released two additional albums, most recently Dance Called Memory.

Yorkshire's The Orielles have returned with a new single that signals a different path, churning with both chaos and quiet, that the trio promises for their fourth album, Only You Left, which arrives ...

Jeff Tweedy's new song, "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter," inspires a "foggy notion" of digging through Reed-associated things to get "Cavalcade" up to steam on this December eve. But it doesn't stop at ...