Goddamnit

In 2011, Philadelphia&#39;s Goddamnit formed with a desire to make music that harkens back to the &quot;golden era&quot; of punk and post hardcore. Meshing the emotive sounds of bands like Jawbreaker and The Promise Ring with the ferocious intensity of Quicksand, Goddamnit offers a fresh perspective on a genre that Hot Water Music and Small Brown Bike carried the torch for in the early aughts.

Dad Hats 

Dad Hats are a four piece indie-punk band from Nashville, TN who write emotionally driven 90s inspired melodic punk rock songs with sing-along catchy pop hooks.

Startographers

Startographers are an alternative rock band from Austin, Texas featuring members of Magnet School, Honeyrude, and Schatzi. With an array of influences including indie rock, dream pop, post-rock, shoegaze, post-punk, and brit-pop - they have a unique sound that&#39;s driving &amp; vibrant but also full of lush guitar textures and captivating vocal melodies. Their debut LP will be released fall of 2022.

Narrow Head

Narrow Head is a rock band from Texas formed in 2013, heavily influenced by 90s alternative rock, grunge, post-hardcore and shoegaze. The band self released their debut LP &quot;Satisfaction&quot; and eventually signed to Run For Cover Records, releasing their sophomore LP &quot;12th House Rock&quot; in 2020. Their 3rd LP &quot;Moments of Clarity&quot; will be released in February 2023.

American Thrills

American Thrills is an indie / punk rock band from Connecticut featuring members of The Tired And True (Eulogy Records) and Shut up and Deal. Founded in mid 2020, during a pandemic, the band came together to write their debut self-titled EP. The EP was engineered by Nick Bellmore (Make Do And Mend, Hatebreed) and Mixed/Mastered by John Naclerio (Brand New, My Chemical Romance). The band’s unique blend of upbeat punk rock with hooks for days and a sprinkle of Midwest emo caught the attention of New School Records (No Trigger, Twenty2), who released the EP in late 2020. The band followed up their debut EP with &quot;Old Things&quot; their second EP for New School Records in 2021, and eventually signed to Wiretap Records, who will be releasing their debut LP &quot;Parted Way&quot; fall of 2022.

Action/Adventure

Chicago’s Action/Adventure is the pop-punk band you didn’t know you needed. The dynamic five-piece are all multi-instrumentalists who have been playing together for nearly a decade. Comprised solely of BIPOC, their mission is to create #PopPunkInColor and ensure pop punk is a genre where everyone is represented on and off stage. Action/Adventure has gotten attention from alt scene tastemakers like Alternative Press and Kerrang!, garnered nearly 20k monthly listeners on Spotify, over one million plays on TikTok and even secured a slot at the final Vans Warped Tour in 2018.Typically landing somewhere near melodic hardcore, Action/Adventure collectively writes music that slides along the vast spectrum of pop punk. Poppy lyrics and melodies bring an air of familiarity that are simultaneously bringing a fresh perspective through a new lens and gripping riffs and thrashing breakdowns that you can nod your head to, they draw inspirations ranging from Fall Out Boy to Senses Fail and Four Year Strong.Action/Adventure has now successfully planted their flag into the national landscape of the pop-punk scene following a nearly overnight viral success of the impactful music video for their powerful 60-second single “Barricades” on TikTok. The video details specific discrimination that each member has faced as a group of entirely BIPOC while playing at pop-punk shows. Within three weeks the guys had one million-plus views of the video and an email from their dream label in their inbox.

Gatherers

Gatherers is a melodic emotionally charged post-hardcore band from Bayonne, New Jersey founded in 2011. The band has released 3 full length LPs, their 3rd being released on Equal Vision Records, and a forthcoming LP (2022) set for release on No Sleep Records.

Oversize

Oversize are Salisbury UK, alternative rock band founded in late 2019 over a mutual love of the sounds of yesteryear. The alternative 4-piece draw inspiration from 90’s Indie, Emo, Grunge, Shoegaze and Britpop. Their debut EP &quot;In Balance&quot; was released in 2021 with a follow up EP coming late 2022 called &quot;Into the Ceiling&quot;.

M.U.T.T.

The brainchild of former Culture Abuse guitarist John Jr, M.U.T.T. is a new punk outfit from the Bay Area of California, featuring several other members from Culture Abuse.

Their / They're / There

Their / They&#39;re / There, is an indie/emo/math rock band from Chicago, IL fronted by Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It., Pet Symmetry, The Progress, Stay Ahead of the Weather, etc). The band originally released an EP in 2013 and are finally preparing to release their debut LP in 2022.

Fleshwater

Fleshwater is a new band featuring members of Vein.fm who make heavy/atmospheric rock in the Hum/Deftones/etc realm, incorporating elements of grunge, shoegaze and post-hardcore, similar to more recent bands like Modern Color, Soul Blind, and the like.

Palette Knife

Palette Knife are a relatively new emo/indie/pop punk band from Columbus, Ohio who already have one LP under their belt. The band formed in 2018 and released their debut LP for Take This To Heart Records in 2021, featuring melodic emopunk anthems with math like guitar parts similar to bands like Charmer, Hot Mulligan, Into it Over It, Tiny Moving Parts, Origami Angel and the like. They are gearing up for their sophomore LP set for release in January 2023.

High Vis

High Vis play aggressive, gripping, artful punk that’s as hard as any hardcore record yet sonically opens beyond the parameters of any genre or scene. Breaking from the same London underground that spawned Chubby And The Gang, Higher Power and The Chisel, the band have quickly grown a devoted following for their intense live shows, immediate lyrics that tackle themes from class politics to the challenges of everyday life, and an unparalleled 2019 debut album, No Sense No Feeling.Formed in 2016 from the ashes of some of the UK’s best hardcore bands (Dirty Money, Tremors, DiE, The Smear), High Vis maintain a hardcore energy in their live shows – it’s not uncommon for cheerfully miserable, gold toothed vocalist/front person Graham Sayle to come away from a show with a bleeding forehead – but they’ve taken their aural cues from older UK bands like Gang Of Four, Crisis, Joy Division and Stone Roses. The intensity and passion of hardcore still stokes their fire, but in its post-punk inspired textures and moods lay a sonic adventurousness which suggests the members of High Vis are never going to be confined by any notion of what they should or shouldn’t be playing.

Dazy

Big room hooks with bedroom production. That’s the ethos of James Goodson, the, well, everything behind Dazy. Since releasing his first single in August of 2020, the Richmond, VA-based songwriter has been using Dazy as a vehicle to make the kind of music that he always wanted to hear, and he’s been making a lot of it. By the following August, Dazy had already put out enough material to release MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs (Convulse Records), a sprawling collection of the project’s first year. Now, Goodson has set his turn-and-burn approach to the side in service of crafting something that was initially antithetical to his whole mission: Dazy’s debut full-length, OUTOFBODY.

Kid You Not  

Kid You Not belt out emotionally driven punk rock in the vein of bands like Neckscars, Tired Radio, Iron Chic, Hot WaterMusic, Spanish Love Songs and The Menzingers. Hailing from Saint Augustine, FL these guys write catchy hooks thatstick deep and rock hard.

Armor For Sleep

Armor for Sleep is an American emo rock band from New Jersey founded by Ben Jorgensen in 2001. Nash Breen and Peter James &quot;PJ&quot; DeCicco later joined the band after leaving fellow New Jersey band Prevent Falls. Jorgensen stated the name of the band comes from his early experiences of writing music and not being able to sleep. As he recalls, &quot;I guess when I started the band I was kind of, like, retreating in my room and I kind of couldn&#39;t really fall asleep, so I started playing music. I just thought of the name Armor for Sleep, because it was really, the music was keeping me from passing out! Which was something I was procrastinating on.&quot; Armor For Sleep originally signed to Equal Vision Records, where they released their first two albums, Dream to Make Believe in 2003 and What to Do When You Are Dead in 2005. The band signed to Warner Brothers/Sire Records in 2006, explaining it was &quot;time for a change&quot;, and released their third full-length album Smile for Them on October 30, 2007. On August 20, 2008, the band announced an extended play (EP), entitled The Way Out Is Broken before ultimately disbanding.

Arm's Length

Arm&#39;s Length are a 4 piece emo-rock band from Quinte, Ontario Canada that hearken back to the driving anthemic emotional punk rock of the early 2000s.The core of Arm’s Length is Allen Steinberg (vocals/guitar) and brothers Jeremy Whyte (vocals/guitar) and Jeff Whyte (drums). Steinberg calls the band’s origins “white suburban kid energy”: he and the Whyte brothers went to different high schools in Quinte West, but after meeting Jeremy at a party and agreeing to jam, they discovered a shared (and, in those parts, rare) love for emo and post-hardcore bands like Counterparts, I The Mighty, and The Hotelier. Allen and Jeremy, aged 16, recruited Jeremy’s younger brother Jeff, then just 13, to drum for the pair. By the time Steinberg and Jeremy were graduating from high school, their songs had become more serious. They saved up and recorded the four song 2019 EP What’s Mine Is Yours in Hamilton, Ontario.The underground emo scene picked up on the release and single “Watercolour,” which topped a million streams. They followed up with 2021’s Everything Nice, a six-track EP made with producer Anton DeLost(Seaway, Bearings, Stage Hands). Within a week, Pitchfork had reviewed the EP. That’s when Steinberg says “the collared folk in the emo community” took notice: the band signed with Wax Bodega and booking agent Jason Parent. With only six local Ontario shows under their belt (including a friend’s wedding), they played New York’s Le Poisson Rouge. Fans began uploading full videos of their spring 2022 sets in Chicago and Toronto on YouTube. The band added Benjamin Greenblatt on bass and started prepping their debut full-length.

Fireside 

Fireside is a Swedish rock band, that formed in the Swedish post-hardcore scene in the early 1990s. Combining post-hardcore, emo, post-punk and metal, Fireside has often been compared to bands like Quicksand and Swedish contemporaries Starmarket. Their sound evolved over the course of their 5 records, with the earlier material more drenched in post-hardcore/emocore and the later material having more of a post-punk/indie-rock feel.

The Early November

The Early November is an American emo rock band from New Jersey, United States. The group formed in 2001 and signed with Drive-Thru Records in 2002. As of 2018, they have released two EPs: For All of This (2002) and The Acoustic EP (2005). They have released five full-length albums: The Room&#39;s Too Cold (2003), triple album The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path (2006), In Currents (2012), and Imbue (2015). Their most recent album, Lilac, was released September 27, 2019. The band is currently signed to Pure Noise Records.

Soul Blind

Soul Blind are a hardcore-adjacent shoegazey/post-grunge band from Hudson Valley, NY channeling elements of 90s grunge, shoegeaze, and post-hardcore, currently signed to Other People Records.

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