Peel Dream Magazine, the Los Angeles indie rockers who dropped their well received LP Rose Main Reading Room, earlier this year. recently the band covered the Beta Band clssic “Dry The Rain,” that anthem of abiding which was originally released in 1997 before joining Their Three EPs compilation.

About Peel Dream Magazine & their recent album, Rose Main Reading Room:

Rose Main Reading Room is Set to the backdrop of New York City and its towering landmarks — The American Museum of Natural History, Grand Central Station, and the like — songwriter Joseph Stevens weaves personal stories into the wider fabric of the natural world, touching on themes of instinct, animality, and evolution. On tracks such as “Central Park West” and “Migratory Patterns” Stevens and his principal contributors, vocalist Olivia Babuka Black and multi-instrumentalist Ian Gibbs, evoke a woodland sound palette juxtaposed against drones and various electronics, like on side one closer “Gems and Minerals”.

Singles include “Wish You Well” and “Lie in the Gutter” conjure the driving feel of the band’s earlier output, which often draws comparison to Stereolab and Yo La Tengo, while songs like “Dawn” revel in arpeggiating woodwinds and mallets, recalling the wide-eyed contemporary classical of Steve Reich and Sufjan Stevens. Rose Main Reading Room also touches on Y2K indie pop nostalgia by incorporating breakbeats and acoustic guitar-driven ear candy, as heard on tracks like “Counting Sheep” and “Four Leaf Clover.”

Across its fifteen songs, Rose Main Reading Room ultimately proposes a world of marvels and compelling complexity: “Oblast” cheekily prods at mutually assured destruction; “Ocean Life” explores the infiniteness within ourselves; while “R.I.P (Running in Place)” unpacks an all too familiar stagnation. It’s all part of and crucial to, Rose Main Reading Room’s transportive power, ever reaching for the wonder and magic of the world we live in.

Peel Dream Magazine
Rose Main Reading Room
Topshelf
Track Listing:

Dawn
Central Park West
Oblast
Wish You Well
Wood Paneling Pt. 3
R.I.P. (Running In Place)
I Wasn’t Made For War
Gems and Minerals
Machine Repeating
Recital
Migratory Patterns
Four Leaf Clover
Lie In The Gutter
Ocean Life
Counting Sheep

Peel Dream Magazine 2025 tour dates

Feb 08 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram *
Feb 25 – St. Louis, MO – Atomic #
Feb. 26 – Louisville, KY – Zanzibar #
Feb. 27 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East #
Feb. 28 – Atlanta, GA – Smith’s Olde Bar #
Mar. 01 – Raleigh, NC – King’s #
Mar. 03 – Washington DC – Union Stage #
Mar. 04 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry #
Mar. 05 – Kingston, NY – Tubby’s
Mar. 07 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg #

* = w/ Sour Widows
# = w/ Friko

Order Rose Main Reading Room HERE