Featured Releases
essential new releases we put at the top of the list.
September 18th, 2020At the start of 2017, Evan Thomas Weiss wasn’t sure that he would make Figure, his long-awaited fourth full-length record under namesake Into It. Over It. But built slowly and kindly with the help of his friends, Figure became his commitment to do better and to be better. “It’s about trying to make peace with poor decisions that I’ve made,” Weiss says, “and how I can try to reconcile as much as I can, and what I can’t reconcile, how I’m going to cope with that moving forward, and what I can do t...
September 18th, 2020Southern California emo / post-hardcore quartet Movements have announced their second album No Good Left To Give, out September 18 on Fearless Records. The band has also shared the visually stunning animated video for the first single "Don't Give Up Your Ghost" which can be viewed below. "It talks about depression and suicidal thoughts and tendencies," says Miranda about the moody and introspective track. "It's told from the perspective of a person who is dealing with a friend who confides...
September 18th, 2020Las Vegas, NV punk/pop-punk trio Mercy Music have announced their forthcoming new album titled 'Nothing In The Dark' out this September via Wiretap Records (US) and SBAM Records (EU). For Mercy Music’s third full-length album, 'Nothing in the Dark,' the band (Scholz, bassist Jarred Cooper, and drummer Rye Martin) found an understanding ear with Alkaline Trio/Motörhead producer Cameron Webb, and were finally able to make an album that focuses the band’s many strengths down to a smoldering point. ...
September 25th, 2020Deftones have announced their new album 'Ohms,' arriving on September 25th via Warner Records. The announcement arrives with the video for the title track, directed by Rafatoon. Recorded at Henson Studios in Los Angeles, CA and Trainwreck Studios in Woodinville, WA, Ohms is an other-worldly body of work meticulously crafted by the 5 piece band. The band, which includes Chino Moreno, Frank Delgado, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, and Sergio Vega, has produced a dense LP with every member firin...
September 25th, 2020Legendary singer-songwriter-guitarist-bandleader Bob Mould has announced the release of an explosive new album. BLUE HEARTS, Mould's 14th solo LP, arrives via Merge Records on Friday, September 25; pre-orders are available now on LP, CD, and tri-color Peak Vinyl in the Merge store, or your favorite independent record shop. "'American Crisis' is a tale of two times," says Mould. "Past Time and Present Time. The parallels between 1984 and 2020 are a bit scary for me: telegenic, charismatic l...
October 2nd, 2020Nasvhille, Tenessee's melodic indie rockers Early Humans will release their 2nd LP titled "A Wave" on October 2, 2020. The two previously released singles "Tenticles" and "Creator" taken from the forthcoming LP can be streamed below. ...
October 9th, 2020Los Angeles post hardcore band Touché Amoré will release their fifth studio album, Lament on October 9. Since their formation in 2007, Touché Amoré has been burrowing through angst, alienation, cancer, and death throughout four adored studio albums. After over a decade of working through darkness, Lament, finds the light at the end of the tunnel. The album arrives as the follow-up to the band’s critically acclaimed 2016 release, Stage Four, which found vocalist Jeremy Bolm mourning and pay...
October 9th, 2020Hundredth have announced that their new album, Somewhere Nowhere, will be released on October 9th, 2020. The band finds itself leaning even further into their own brand of shoegaze, dream pop, new wave and synth pop on the forthcoming release. The album will contain 14 tracks, including the 4 previously released Iridescent EP tracks, along with 10 brand new songs. The new single "Bottle It Up" can be streamed below. ...
October 16th, 2020Having spent the past couple years wavering between self-doubt and having it figured out, Montreal's Gulfer have returned to the fore with their third full-length record. Composed of thirteen tracks of intricate, dexterous, and incredibly fun, punk-inspired emo tunes, Gulfer sees the Montreal quartet settled into their own with a career-defining record. Set to be released via Topshelf Records, as well as with the band's first ever Canadian label in Royal Mountain Records, Gulfer is expansi...
October 23rd, 2020Three years ago, the entire ethos of Southern California’s Souvenirs flipped when front person Tim Riley (he/him) received a medical diagnosis that put everything he felt about the band and himself into question. Their new album Love For The Lack Of It tells Tim’s story, from the lowest moments to the powerful perspective shift that becomes this album’s thesis. To be in your 20s, on the road with your band, and newly married to the love of your life, the last thing in the world you want to hear ...
October 23rd, 2020Sweden's indie/emo melodic rockers I Love Your Lifestyle are gearing up to release their forthcoming LP titled "No Driver" on October 23, 2020 via Dog Knights and Counter Intuitive. This LP is the follow up to last year's "The Movie" another great record worth checking out. Fans of late 90s American mid-western emo/pop/punk with their trademark Sweden indie/emo sound, featuring jangly guitars, catchy melodies, and big hooks will be sure to enjoy this. Be sure to check out the first single below ...
October 23rd, 2020The Big Easy will release their Debut Album titled "A Long Year" via Forged Artifacts on October 23, 2020. According to the Press Release: Though it opens on a note of pure ebullience, A Long Year dances across genres and stylistic boundaries, and not in some calculated way. The members of The Big Easy don’t pull from any one box, so they don’t fit in one either. At any moment it can call to mind bands like Cursive, PUP, or even The Beach Boys; it’s emo, pop-punk and indie rock, all withou...
October 30th, 2020NOTHING return with their highly anticipated new full-length, The Great Dismal. Recorded throughout quarantine with producer Will Yip at Pennsylvania’s Studio Four, The Great Dismal explores existentialist themes of isolation, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland. Closing in on the band’s ten-year mark, NOTHING frontman Domenic Palermo finds himself stringing together songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia with a refined and refreshed take on the band’s classi...
October 30th, 2020Canadian punk trio The OBGMs will release their rampageous new album ‘The Ends’ on 30 October via Black Box. The record was produced by Grammy and Juno award winning Dave Schiffman (Trash Talk, PUP, Rage Against The Machine) and sees the band emboldened by the body of work they’ve crafted. Vocalist/guitarist Densil McFarlane says it how it is: "This album is about death, wanting to die, and fighting for something to live for — it’s the end of all things. I feel this is the one of the most import...
October 30th, 2020Sweden's melodic indie-punk / noise-pop rockers Statues will release their debut LP "Holocene" on October 30th, 2020. The band consists of members of late 90s/early 2000s Sweden favorite Kevlar (later known as KVLR) who continue with their brand of noisey and melodic guitar driven indie-punk anthems, and huge hooks to go along with it. Fans of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du, and 90s sweden favs Starmarket and Him Kerosene will love this! Check out some of the album pre-release singles bel...
