Indie Rock
Underlined Passages
Baltimore indie rock band Underlined Passages pairs layered guitars and shoegaze haze with a strong melodic core, drawing on touchstones including Nada Surf, American Foo...
Genre20 Artists
Alternative Rock
The best alternative-rock artists featured on Release Wave
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Artists
Shoegaze
Day Aches
Day Aches are a DC/VA-area heavy alternative rock band blending grunge, shoegaze, nü metal and post-hardcore with thick distorted guitars, gauzy melodies and heavy groove...
Emo
Spanish Love Songs
Spanish Love Songs are a Los Angeles rock band built around huge, heart-on-sleeve hooks, ringing guitars and emotionally direct songwriting. Their fifth album, Future Nau...
Indie Rock
Pet Fox
Boston indie rock trio Pet Fox pair textured guitars, understated hooks and emotionally detailed songwriting with a restless live-band energy. Featuring members of Ovlov...
Indie Rock
The Republic of Wolves
The Republic of Wolves are a New York indie rock/emo band whose music moves between atmospheric alternative rock, post-hardcore and emotionally charged guitar music. The...
Power Pop
Dazy
Dazy is the Richmond, Virginia solo project of musician and producer James Goodson, pairing huge power-pop hooks with fuzzed-out guitars, drum-machine punch and increasin...
Shoegaze
Sleepwalk
Chicago’s Sleepwalk pair shoegaze haze and ’90s alternative rock weight with the urgency of post-hardcore, drawing comparisons to Hum, Failure and Quicksand. Their fourth...
Indie Rock
Menderbug
Menderbug is an emerging Swedish alternative rock, shoegaze and post rock duo based in the rural region of southern Sweden, near the Malmö area.Band . Formed by musicians...
Alternative Rock
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age are the Josh Homme-led California rock band whose desert-rock roots evolved into a singular mix of alternative rock, hard rock, psychedelia and he...
Shoegaze
Paerish
Paerish are a four-piece alternative rock and emo band from Paris, France, featuring Mathias Court (vocals/guitar), Frédéric Wah (guitar), Martin Dupraz (bass) and Loïc F...
Power Pop
Jawdropped
Los Angeles quartet Jawdropped pair '90s-minded jangly indie and alternative guitar rock with power-pop hooks and a ragged alt-country streak. Their debut album Secret To...
Emo
Montclair
MONTCLAIR is a dynamic post-hardcore band from Connecticut, formed in 2021, known for their passionate and aggressive songwriting that reflects the emotional vulnerabilit...
Pop Punk
Topdown
Austin five-piece Topdown play melodic post-hardcore rooted in '90s and early-2000s emo, hardcore and pop punk, balancing muscular riffs and big hooks with anguished scre...
Alternative Rock
Anberlin
Anberlin are an alternative rock band from Florida formed in 2002, with a catalog that includes Blueprints for the Black Market, Never Take Friendship Personal, Cities, N...
Shoegaze
MX LONELY
Brooklyn heavy alternative band MX LONELY fuse shoegaze, grunge, post-punk and hardcore into a dense, cathartic sound. Following 2026 debut album ALL MONSTERS , they retu...
Indie Rock
Fontaines D.C.
Fontaines D.C. are a Dublin-formed five-piece featuring Grian Chatten (vocals), Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan (bass), and Tom Coll (drums...
Indie Rock
wakelee
Brooklyn trio wakelee pair indie rock, emo, and alternative rock with lived-in songwriting and big melodic hooks. Their second album, under construction forever , arrives...
Shoegaze
Despire
Despire are a four-piece grungegaze band from Vacaville, California, formed in 2026 by Wesson Markowski (rhythm guitar/vocals), Jeremiah Denis (lead guitar), Jesse Broyle...
Indie Rock
The Still Out
New York City shoegaze and indie rock band The Still Out pair layered, angular guitars with soaring melodies and post-punk dynamics. Formed by producers Josh Stoddard and...
Shoegaze
Modern Daze
Modern Daze is an alternative rock band from Tacoma, Washington, built around heavy guitar textures, melodic hooks, and the kind of emotional push-and-pull that sits comf...