Featured Releases
essential new releases we put at the top of the list.
June 10th, 2022Brooklyn, New York's Living Room have found a new home with Brooklyn indie label Fear Icon Records and will release their new LP titled 'New Years' on June 10th, 2022. The band has been quietly releasing thoughtful and precise music for the last decade, with a rich discography that blends emo, shoegaze, and post-punk. Their upcoming album might be their most focused yet, and feels like a band that is leveling up and totally comfortable in their own skin. Stand out tracks like "Petrol Head" and "...
June 10th, 2022Atlanta, GA's Indie/pop-punk rockers The Carolyn have returned with their 2nd outstanding full length LP titled "The Rhytym of My Own Decay" released June 10, 2022 via 59 X Records. The album contains 8 blistering pop punk anthems, short and to the point, full of emotion and melody, with hooks that will be stuck in your head for days. The new songs clearly demonstrate a more focused band and continued step forward in their songwriting and knack for writing high energy emotionally charged singalo...
June 24th, 2022Los Angeles indie-rock pioneer Day Wave (the project of singer/instrumentalist Jackson Phillips) returns today with news of his upcoming album, Pastlife, out June 24 on [PIAS] Recordings. Day Wave first emerged from the Bay Area in 2015 and quickly became known for his wavy lo-fi bedroom production. Tracks like "Drag" and "Something Here" put him on a global radar, boasting hundreds of millions of streams across DSPs and creating a lane for bedroom-pop that didn't previously exist. Now Jac...
June 24th, 2022Pittsburgh, PA 5th wave emo-revivalists Short Fictions will release their new LP titled "Every Moment of Every Day", their first new music since December 2019's Fates Worse Than Death, their sophomore LP that received highly positive reception in the circuits they run in. This also marks the band's first release on Lauren Records. The LP builds off of what primary Songwriter/Vocalist Sam Treber cemented on Fates Worse Than Death, a focus on socialist issues in his community, while also showcasin...
June 29th, 2022Oklahoma emo/punk band Ben Quad have announced their debut LP titled "I'm Scared That's All There Is" set for release on June 29 via Chillwavve, and it features recent singles "We're Gonna Be Here for a While," "You Gotta Learn to Listen, Lou," and "Blood for the Blood God," as well as new single "Joan of Hill." As evident on the new songs, the band combine twinkly 90s midwestern emo with early 2000s melodic and hook-laden anthemic pop punk sensibility, fitting right in with the new crop of 5t...
August 30th, 2022Los Angeles, CA shoegazing fuzz pop alt-rockers Milly are gearing up to release their Dangerbird Records debut full length LP titled "Eternal Ring" set for release on August 30, 2022. The album was produced by Corey Coffman and features 9 new tracks, including the previously released first single "Illuminate" and newly released single "Nullify". Although a fairly new project and with 2 outstanding Eps already under their belt, Milly perfectly melds together elements of classic shoegaze, slowcore...
