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Soft Punch – “My Head”

August 21, 2023

Washington DC’s Rye Thomas is a journeyman who has toured with multiple successful bands and wrote for big publications like Rolling Stone and The Washington Post, that is, before a mysterious illness left him home bound in 2013. His unwavering need to make music persisted, even if scraping 30 minutes of creativity in a day is all he could muster. Recording under the moniker Soft Punch, Thomas cobbled and labored for years – eventually he got healthy enough to record the album Above Water which is due out September 15th. The lead single “My Head” is a bombastic power-pop banger that pleas for clarity and transcendence to push through the beguiling weight of ones own mentality. Buzzing guitar expands and radiates through your chest while Thomas sings effecting lyrics that stick in your head and linger as each phrase passes. Every verse has a catchy and creative cadence that goes[...]

ELLiS•D – “I AM HERE”

August 21, 2023

The solo artist ELLiS·D is a multi-instrumentalist from the UK who has an upcoming EP whose first single is the twisting and atmospheric art-rock jam “I AM HERE.” The track blends some of music’s most creatively rich genre’s into a singular and indelible experience. The ambiance and colour of New Wave pulse from the track like club lights pouring from the seams of a weary building, barely containing the show throbbing in its underbelly. Art rock paints the track in vibrant and exciting colors, bending your ear and brain with curling movements, crushes of sound and warping guitars. Indie tones gives the song an earnest voice that bolsters the emotional ambiance the New Wave provides with effecting song writing. The new cut from ELLiS·D is an urban nocturnal necromancy that quickens a deadened pulse and animates the toes of any body that hears it. Fans of Simple Minds, Arcade Fire,[...]

Middle Priest – “Act Your Age”

August 7, 2023

LA-based indie rockers Middle Priest have just released the electrically slick single “Act Your Age” off their forthcoming EP I thought that I was far away. The new cut has fat drum punches that lead you into a cavalcade of guitar bursts that shine with a southern rock flair and will have you imagining a perfect summer breeze kissing your cheek. Middle Priest’s vocals on “Act Your Age” weave into the rhythm with a serpentine southern slickness that excites the listener as it coils until a cathartic hollering, “whew” in the center of the track. Their bridge uses that same anticipatory energy by tying the ends of the verses inside of it together before dropping the vocals and releasing an incendiary, hair raising guitar solo. Let this new indie group wow you with this fresh cut that rattlesnakes and rocks. Fans of Raconteurs, Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, and Wilco[...]

Sea Lemon – “Vaporized”

August 7, 2023

Seattle’s Natalie Lew, under her moniker Sea Lemon, is excited for her upcoming EP release titled Stop at Nothing, due out August 25th of this year. This will be following her debut album that germinated during pandemic isolation and found life in the 2022 release Close Up. The upcoming EP has Lew pushing to define her artistic voice after a promising freshman album where the young artist was trying on various sounds while finding that unique one that fits best. “Vaporized”, the latest single to come from that project, is an upbeat, shoegazey indie cut that is a perfect example of that sound. The new song is stuffed full of melancholic beauty, with twinkling guitar lines that tumble and cascade onto each other like ocean waves. Warm layers of expansive bass create a plush underpinning for Lew’s lyrics to sit upon, all of which are kept buoyant with a steady rock[...]

LEX – “vodka soda”

August 7, 2023

Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Alexis Onyango, aka LEX, has just released the bubbling neon chameleon that is her electro pop track “vodka soda.” Turn it on and bliss out as the chopped and screwed electro textures titillate and transport your consciousness.  Effervescent audio samples dance with rubbery bright synths before Onyango’s pure-toned pop vocals pierce the swirling maelstrom and hold your heart like the gaze of your summer crush. She sings about the kind of love that’ll have you listening to music you hate just to be with them. The production is filled with nostalgic and saccharine electro blurts, bursts, and edits that echo deep into your young heart and animate your hips, toes, and head until you’re doing a dance that feels like the manifestation of the ghosts from summers past and present. The intricate single builds on the work of LEX who has released singles “Skin Off My Back” in[...]

PYNKIE- “Plz”

August 7, 2023

Lindsey Radice, aka PYNKIE, hails from New Jersey and forges her music career when she isn’t helping people as a full-time registered nurse. She has just released a slammin’, kaleidoscopic dream pop single with “Plz.” The high energy, dreamy indie rock cut encapsulates the cathartic cruise of a windows-down music-up joyride where your emotions simultaneously find purchase and get drowned out. Radice’s hazy vocals glide on top of and blend into a bed of fast paced layered guitar, warm strings, and metronomic drums that click by like tires slapping highway spacers. The bridge becomes a rhythmic, multicolored haze with her singing falling back before snapping the track back into place with pleasing authority. Radice is riding the wave of momentum she created with underground Soundcloud beginnings that she bridged into the lauded release of her debut album, 2018’s neoteny. “Plz” will find its home on her forthcoming album Songies which[...]

Far Caspian – “Pool”

July 25, 2023

Irish singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Joel Johnston, aka Far Caspian, has evolved into an musical auteur, rising in popularity on the back of a pair of EPs and debut album Ways to Get Out, the artist has become fully self-contained. He directs his own videos, shoots his press shots, creates his own artwork, and started a record label (Check our previous features on Far Caspian Here, Here, and Here). His debut album has garnered over 30 million streams since its release late in 2021, which is all the more impressive as the project started in 2020; the impetus of Far Caspian being as a Soundcloud feature to garner interest in Johnston’s production talents. He continues the momentum with sophomore album, The Last Remaining Light and with the ineffable and captivating single, “Pool.” The single pulls on your heart and entrances like an Elliot Smith cut, dazzles you with production and[...]

Les Gold – “All My Good Friends”

July 24, 2023

Les Gold continue their dominance as the progenitors of the “gloom disco/bummer fun” genre with their latest cut “All My Good Friends” (check our previous feature on them here). The new song has a revelatory progression as the warm tones and harmonies grow and layer on top of one another, each phrase describing the behavior of the people you are closest to. These friends sound worse and worse as the lyrics progress – like most things you hold close, problems only reveal themselves with a little distance and examination. Here are Les Gold talking about it and the track: “At the end of the day, one can’t exist without the other – we are our good friends, and they are us. With a poppy, summery, sing-along vibe to accompany the whole track, we wanted to create something that everyone will shout along to in celebration of the dumb decisions we[...]

Gilded Creatures – “Delusions”

July 24, 2023

Gilded Creatures are the worst country band to have ever existed… Their words, not ours! Growing out of a failed genetic experiment by Johnson and Johnson to create the perfect country band, these misfit mutants withstood being a country music catastrophe, having persevered their dereliction while holding onto the birth boons of electric guitar, electric bass guitar, electric key board, and an acoustic drum set that J&J gave them in the winter of 2013. Yet, this pharma-failure is a triumph for rock as the latest single from Gilded Creatures, “Delusions,” encapsulates inner strife and the varied ways one wants to drown out the answerable “dark waves” of the mind, “the undertow that never lets go.” Slick rock rhythms that slink and sway, reminiscent of Radiohead, impact your chest as the lyrics belted out evoke discord, using metaphors of androids and how their existence of being is facsimile to human in[...]

B. Miles – “Different Pages”

July 24, 2023

B. Miles has her sophomore album coming out on September 30th and leading the way is the title track, “Different Pages.” An alt pop hit dripping with allure, “Pages” channels 90’s alternative pop masterpieces from Miles’ past that helped her grapple with her current life-changing events (check our previous feature on B. Miles here). Miles found inspiration in her favorite playlist stored on her first iPod, the bygone cultural touchstone that so many readers can close their eyes and wistfully reminiscence how formative it was to them. Miles finds herself at the end of a relationship and worldview that she carried through the entirety of her 20s – the break up anthems of the 90’s hibernating on her iPod manifest in a lingering pang and cathartic release like no other. Miles taps into the powerful, emotionally intelligent 90’s stars like Natalie Imbruglia, Dolores O’Riordan, and Hope Sandoval using them as[...]

T-Mass x Staarz – “Bad Guy”

July 14, 2023

T-Mass and Staarz have mixed their creative chakras to create electronic alchemical gold with the newly released track “Bad Guy,” a cover of the Billie Eilish hit. While the original is an exercise in whispered swagger, bated pauses, and ear bending transitions, the cover takes the song out of the bedroom and sets it cruising through neon dripped city streets on an Akira motorcycle. T-Mass laces the track with subtle drops before opening the throttle and hurling you into lush maximalist electronic production that never breaks the cool that the original hit branded into our collective mind. The song wisely keeps the gut punch of the famous warped vocal “bad guy” but instead of a muted bravado, T-Mass makes the production a blurried full throttle joyride filled with melody and texture reminiscent of TNGHT, Hudson Mohawke, and Rustie. This release is the first track in six years for T-Mass and[...]

MILANOSPORT – “Sushi”

July 9, 2023

Five piece MILANOSPORT are transmitting a potent and living interpretation of their home city Milan’s nightlife with their debut single “Sushi.” The new track blends post punk, surf rock, and shoegaze synth into a focused slice of savory-salty scrumptiousness, a prosciutto crudo of a single for sure. Deadpan vocals fall from the singer’s lips like a cigarette divorcing the bottom lip of a slack-jawed midnight reveler. The lyrics tumble out as a fraying rhythm guitar chugs and pounds along with impeccable rock drumming bolstered by a carbonated bass riff. “Sushi” is effortlessly cool while progressing and shifting into exciting post punk sounds before slapping you back with stiletto guitar lines. Finally, they open all the dissonance for a climax that feels like the end of a long Milan night that extended long past the aperitif. Fans of Interpol, Art Brut, and Ought will find lots to love on this track.[...]

Zivi – “Move Along”

July 9, 2023

“Move Along” is a dreamy new single from Zivi who operates out of Los Angeles. “Move Along” is wonderfully produced and mixed impeccably, it brings that beautiful balance of soft rock sound perfected by Fleetwood Mac with a 2023 twist. Exemplified by tight drums that fit into guitar lines like clockwork and a tireless guitar that plays out like a heart tapped, it flows endlessly, letting emotional stimuli push, pull, and bend the flow that falls from it eternally. Zivi coos warmly in the middle of the track with his hazy vocals, which get thickened by a rounded, caramelly bass line combining to cover the whole track in a suede texture that you will love. Fans of War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, and Dinosaur Jr. will find plenty to sink their teeth into on this one. Give “Move Along” the new single from Zivi a listen on Soundcloud, Apple Music,[...]

Conflict At Serenity Pools – “Stained Glass Curtain”

July 9, 2023

Conflict At Serenity Pools calls Venice Beach, California home, but has collaborators that span well beyond Dogtown (read our previously feature here). CASP for short has just released their latest piece, a blurred bite of sumptuous surf citrus flavored indie, “Stained Glass Curtain.” It is their first single off upcoming LP Ladders of Misfortune coming out Sept. 29th. The new song has a care free confidence evocative of The Velvet Underground that lets a pop creativity flow freely into their indie guitar sound.  An undeniable California surf sound brings the bright energy to that carefree tude and buzzy rhythms create a savory hit that you can feel in the back of your jaw as bright guitar lines twinkle dazing you with Beach Boys pop tones. The upcoming album explores collage and time; “Stained Glass Curtain” is lock step with the project’s themes, referencing patchwork both in fabric and in happiness. Let[...]

Madison Lucas – “Just Be Cool”

June 25, 2023

Madison Lucas is a singer/songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina who just released the smoldering indie cut “Just Be Cool.” Her new song is hauntingly catchy and has a swelling momentum that she playfully tugs back before letting it surge again. “Just Be Cool’s” energy burns like hot coals that glow neon as Madison billows her voice over them. Madison coos, “Don’t lose your head little girl, he’s all you ever wanted” before belting out “Don’t come closer or I will scream out loud” exemplifying the playful and masterfully executed dynamic range in this jammer that is all about the rising flood of emotions and the repeated efforts to tamper them down. The song hits hot and cools off, quickens then calms all playing in the theme to great satisfaction of the listener. Fans of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Santigold, and The Kills should give this new song a listen for sure.[...]