<img src="http://www.cougarmicrobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cougarlogoretina.png" width="400" height="238">

Destroyer Press Photo for Dan's Boogie. Dan Bejar in black and white in what looks like a changing room.

Weekend Videos: Destroyer – Bologna

Cameron Winter’s Precocious ‘Heavy Metal’ Debut Rewrites the Rules

Album Spotlight Featured

Latest

CM Selects: Pop July 2026 #3

Ruby·July 10, 2026

This edition, we bring you sultry and suspicious, promises to the self, grand narratives and dreamy ocean vibes....

CM Selects: Electronica July 2026 #3

CM Selects Featured

CM Selects: Indie/Rock July 2026 #4

CM Selects: Hip Hop July 2026 #1

Artist Spotlight Introducing

Introducing

Introducing Lana Crow

Introducing

Introducing Eoin Shannon

Introducing Mt. Kili

Featured Introducing

Intercontinen7al "Love Is Everywhere" single cover.

Introducing Intercontinen7al

Featured Introducing

Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Stereolab – “Aerial Troubles”

Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Hiroki Tanaka – “Yamato”

Artist Spotlight Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Car Seat Headrest – Gethesemene

Weekend Videos

Weekend Videos: Little Simz – Flood

Weekend Videos: Model/Actriz – “Cinderella”

Interviews

Interview with Evil Little Thing

Album Review + Interview: Emma Miller Drops A Physical Anchor In Digital Waters With “I Want To Be The Anchor”

Interview with Chelle

Editorial

Track Spotlight: Mount Palomar – L’Aliment

Track Spotlight

Quiet as a Mouse – Nostalgia is fine… But… This album is better

High Noon by Moon and Aries: A delightful taste of upcoming EP Prairie Souls

Track Spotlight

Track Spotlight: Montana Joanna – “Same Stars”

Track Spotlight

Irina Imme’s Y2K binds that 2000’s energy in pure sonic bliss

Antoin Gibson’s “Diss Tribute”: A Fierce Rap Flip on the Algorithm Era

Featured Track Spotlight

From the archives

Introducing Daddy Lion

Chief Cougar·February 11, 2010

With the accessibility of music today, hearing bands and their influences through their music is inevitable and unsurprising....

Introducing

Interview with Scoundrels

Chief Cougar·August 5, 2011

After reviewing Scoundrels a couple of months ago we caught up with Ned for a quick Q&A covering Tae Kwondo practices,...

Weekend Videos: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Dawn McCarthy – “Omaha”

Chief Cougar·June 9, 2013

Back in February Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy joined forces with habitual co-conspirator Dawn McCarthy to release ‘What The Brothers...

tour Weekend Videos

CM Selects

CM Selects: Indie/Rock July 2026 #3

CM Selects Uncategorized

CM Selects: Indie/Rock July 2026 #2

CM Selects: Electronica July 2026 #1

CM Selects Uncategorized

CM Selects: Indie/Rock July 2026 #1

CM Selects: Pop July 2026 #2

CM Selects: Pop July 2026 #1

CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #14

CM Selects: Electronica June 2026 #5

CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #13

CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #12

CM Selects: Indie/Rock June 2026 #11

CM Selects: Pop June 2026 #4

Artist Spotlight Featured

M0n0 Jay Is Multiplying and “Variant” Is Undeniable Proof

Jen·June 29, 2026

M0n0 Jay’s “Variant” is sensory pop music with deep house running through its veins, and it knows exactly...

Talk in Vain rework “I Drove All Night” into a rock-driven sprint

Oliver·June 5, 2026

Talk in Vain’s rock-driven reinterpretation of “I Drove All Night”* is out today, and it gives a familiar song...

News

Interview with M4TR

Valya·May 25, 2026

M4TR returns with ‘Reimagination: The Remixes, Vol. 1‘, a release that finds him handing key tracks from ‘Love...

Artist Spotlight Featured

Sasha Joy’s “Got You Something” Gives Heartbreak a Glow-up

Jen·May 15, 2026

Breakup songs have a reputation problem. Too many of them want you to either sob into your pillow...

Introducing Kiki Kramer

SJ·May 4, 2026

Born of New York City nightlife and the restless energy of the digital age, Kiki Kramer is an alt‑pop artist who understands...

Artist Spotlight Featured Introducing

Divorce Find Their Voice on ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’

Chief Cougar·July 3, 2025

When I first heard Divorce’s self-titled EP back in 2022, it felt like a raw, jagged artefact from...

Album Spotlight Featured

Great Grandpa Patience, Moonbeam album cover

Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam: An Ambitious Indie Rock Comeback That Holds

Oliver·April 7, 2025

After years of near-silence and the threat of collapse, Great Grandpa return sounding less like a reunion and...

Courting’s Lust for Life Is a Fast, Frenzied, Brilliant Mess

Sam·March 12, 2025

The first real beat on ‘Lust for Life‘ does not so much drop as detonate, snapping Courting out of a...