Featured Releases
essential new releases we put at the top of the list.
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, 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, 2020Deep Elm is pleased to announce the forthcoming October 30th release of the new album Thanks, I Hate It by the undeniably infectious and highly relatable Florida-based punk outfit KID YOU NOT. The first single Fantastic Drugs And How To Take Them will be released September 29th in connection with a music video by Matthew Maynak for the single. Pre-orders for the new full-length also go live on Sep 29. Sung from the gut and straight from the heart, you'll find these new songs ring true to familia...
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...
November 13th, 2020Oklahoma City's alternative shoegazer's cursetheknife are gearing up to release their debut EP titled "Thank You For Being Here Pt. 1", due for release on November 13, 2020 on the oustanding New Morality Zine label. The new EP is the first half of a 2 Part EP series, of which the second EP is scheduled to drop in December. So far, cursetheknife have released a 2 song promo this year featuring the songs "Low" and "Feeling Real" both of which can be streamed below and will be included on the upco...
November 13th, 2020Long Island’s melodic emo-core alt rockers Somerset Thrower returns with their sophomore full-length, Paint My Memory. The 10-track follow-up their 2018 outstanding debut "Godspeed" finds the band digging further into their influences to craft a sound that ranges from concise and melodic alt-rock to dissonant post-hardcore riffing. "Paint My Memor" will be released on all digital and streaming platforms on November, 13 2020 via Dead Broke and Triple B Records. Pre-orders for limited vinyl copie...
November 20th, 2020Montclair, NJ — Take This to Heart Records will be releasing the sophomore LP from ManDancing entitled The Good Sweat on November 20th. Following up 2018's LP Everyone Else & EP Hands On 3, ManDancing return with their most ambitious album yet. "Coffer", ManDancing’s latest single, is a study in steady builds. What begins as a gentle excavation of Stephen G Kelly’s cavernous voice opens up into an anthemic ode to coming to terms with one’s true nature. ManDancing’s true nature, at least for ...
November 20th, 2020Portland, Oregon's post-punk meets dream-pop rockers Soft Kill are gearing up for the release of their forthcoming LP titled "Dead Kids, R.I.P. City" on November 20, 2020 (digital). Physical release to follow in January 2021 and pre-orders are up. A story odyssey of sorts told in ten parts, ten songs - each track essentially a character - “Dead Kids...”, produced by David Trumfio (Built To Spill, Wilco, OK Go) and mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg (The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirva...
November 27th, 2020Combining 90s sounding post-hardcore with elements of shoegaze, grunge and emo, Outside are gearing up to release their 2nd LP titled "Green In You" on November 27, 2020 via the outstanding Head2Wall Records. With their new LP, Outside seamlessly blend spacey and atmospheric layers often heard in bands like Hum, with melodic emotionally driven post hardcore similar to Title Fight, and just the right amount of agression, groove and meloncholy akin to Nothing, Deftones and Quicksand. The songs a...
