Royal Mounta

Jakob Armstrong (youngest son of Green Day frontman Billie Joe) began playing guitar at age 7 and honed his craft privately until he met friends with like-minded tastes in music and Ultraman action figures. Produced by Chris Coady (TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House), Ultra Q's My Guardian Angel offers a deep sonic palette that varies between pop-punk and synth-pop, displaying Armstrong's songwriting talents with the musicianship of Kevin Judd and brothers Chris and Enzo Malaspina.

Sister Ray: Communion [Vinyl LP]

Louis Wyatt C.: Chandler [CD]

At only 23, McLamb has already lived multiple lives. In her late teens, McLamb found success via co-hosting the podcast Binchtopia and sharing songs on TikTok. She soon pulled back from the platform, feeling it didn't represent her actual ethos as a songwriter. Instead, she signed to Royal Mountain and released her 2024 debut Going Through It, a document of a complex, traumatic childhood that led to searching phases - dropping out of college during the pandemic in favor of working on Midwest farms, eventually leaving her North Carolina hometown behind for Los Angeles. It all gave her plenty of stories to tell on Going Through It. And now on Good Story, she wonders how that process affected her. Yet the homemade trophy of Good Story's cover is far from a jocular consolation prize alone. It's a symbol of the layered, accomplished writing McLamb arrived at as she interrogated everything she thought she was about as an artist.

Last summer a few friends from some of Canada's most notable bands - Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), Sam Roberts (Sam Roberts Band), Menno Versteeg (Hollerado), and Chris Murphy (Sloan) - got together to write some songs. They mostly made dad jokes but also jammed on a bunch of 3 chord songs they all had lying around. They recorded a bunch of stuff in a few days and over the year added some ideas here and there and all of a sudden a year had past and they realized they kinda had an album so they said let's name ourselves the first thing they thought of and release it. Anyway, they're called Anyway Gang

Calpurnia: Louie/Greyhound [Vinyl 7"]

Wild Pink: A Billion Little Lights (Blue Jay) [Vinyl LP]