Featured Releases
essential new releases we put at the top of the list.
June 23rd, 2020Hum is happy to announce the surprise release of their new album, "Inlet" out June 23, 2020, on Matt Talbot's Earth Analog Records. The album is available for digital download on bandcamp and physical pre-orders are up on polyvinyl records webstore. Inlet is Hum’s first new album since their 1998 swan song Downward Is Heavenward. Band members Matt Talbott and Tim Lash co-produced it with the Urbana producer James Treichler. The album sounds like the natural progression from their last LP, and so...
July 10th, 2020Halifax's Kestrels have announced their new album titled "Dream Or Don't Dream" out July 10, 2020 via Darla Records. On Dream or Don’t Dream, Halifax’s Kestrels live out a guitar freak’s wildest fantasies. The supercharged shoegaze rockers’ fourth full-length album features spellbinding mixing from John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Alvvays, Kurt Vile, Cyndi Lauper) and mastering engineer Greg Calbi (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Television, Blondie). Together, they constructed a towering devotional to t...
July 10th, 2020Rainier, Oregon pop punks Broadway Calls will release their first new album in seven years, Sad In The City, on July 10 via Red Scare Industries. It's their first album for Red Scare, following releases on SideOneDummy, No Sleep, and other labels, and Red Scare say, "We’ve been fans of Broadway Calls for a while now and after years of pestering they finally gave in and joined the team. Their exact words were, 'It would take a catastrophic act of god that destroyed the music industry for us to co...
July 10th, 2020Redondo Beach, California's melodic post-hardcore rockers Modern Color have announced the release of their forthcoming LP, titled "From The Leaves Of Your Garden" set to drop on July 10th, 2020 via Other People Records. For a sneak preview of their emo-tinged grunge meets melodic post-hardcore sound, stream the two new singles "Empty Rooms" and "Out of Reach" below. This album is shaping up to be one hell of a release, so don't sleep on this. ...
July 17th, 2020SPICE, FEAT. MEMBERS OF CEREMONY + SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE, ANNOUNCE SELF-TITLED DEBUT LP. Spice will be out July 17th on Dais Records. Watch a music video for the album’s soaring new single “First Feeling” below. As a collective thought, Spice’s self-titled debut album offers a deliberate isolation of pain as interpreted through different vehicles. The record diverts from a singular mood, tempo, or delivery, instead focusing on orchestrating emotional drain as single impulses—fast, slow, driving, si...
July 17th, 2020Punk veterans Strike Anywhere have signed to Pure Noise Records and announced the band's first new music since 2009. Their new EP titled Nightmares of the West is set to be released on July 17, 2020 via Pure Noise Records. The first two singles from the forthcoming EP can be heard below. Nightmares Of The West might be Strike Anywhere's first new music in over a decade, but in some ways the five-piece hasn't changed at all. These seven songs - six brand new originals and a cover of "Opener" by ...
July 17th, 2020Ways Away have announced the release of their self titled debut album set for release on July 17, 2020 via Other People Records. Featuring Racquet Club's Sergie Loobkoff on guitar (Samiam, Knapsack, Solea) and Ian Smith on bass along with Stick To Your Guns' Jesse Barnett on vocals and Jared Shavelson (BoySetsFire, Paint It Black) on drums, this album is sure to be a full on rocker. Check out the first few singles below, which is the first taste of their upcoming 10-song album, which was produce...
August 14th, 2020Brooklyn, NY's Tired Radio have announced the release of their debut LP titled "Patterns". The album is set to release on August 14, 2020 via Engineer Records. Tired Radio is Anthony Truzzolino and Anthony Truzzolino is Tired Radio. The band and the man are inseparable as each, in some part, defines the other. But Tired Radio is far more than a simple one man band and it isn’t just a solo project put together by a self-confessed professional cry baby. Tired Radio is the place where Anthony’s son...
August 14th, 2020Only Sibling have announced their upcoming debut full-length, Get Well Soon, due out August 14th from Other People Records. The NYC-based band have also shared the album's first single "And I Hate It" along with its accompanying music video. Recorded by Corey Coffman (Gleemer, Modern Color, Seer Believer) Get Well Soon pairs fuzz-drenched guitars and shimmering melodies with vocalist/guitarist Alex Basovskiy's open-book lyricism to create a sound that channels '90s alternative influences through...
August 21st, 2020Germany's shoegaze pop meets 90s melodic indie/emo and groove-laiden post-hardcore rockers Entropy are gearing up to release their debut LP titled "Liminal" on August 21, 2020. As the press release states "ENTROPY initially started out as a bedroom project but soon developed into a full-fledged band devoted to fusing heavier post-hardcore sounds and indie and shoegaze elements. Think HÜSKER DÜ, HELMET meets NOTHING meets TORCHE. There’s a distinct 90s vibe here, sure, but ENTROPY doesn’t j...
August 28th, 2020Houston, TX's Narrow Head are excited to announce their new album "12th House Rock" to be released on Run For Cover Records and Holy Roar Records (U.K.) August 28th, 2020. The new LP is available for pre-order now. Check out their new singles “Night Tryst” and "Stuttering Stanley" streaming now. “Nobody has riffs anymore,” says founding member/vocalist/guitarist Jacob Duarte when asked about his approach on 12th House Rock, Narrow Head’s highly anticipated LP for Run for Cover due on Augus...
