Genre17 Artists

Noise Rock

The best noise-rock artists featured on Release Wave

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Cloud Nothings

Cleveland trio Cloud Nothings combine distorted guitars, restless drumming and melodic hooks across indie rock, noise rock and punk. Their tenth studio album, What Kind o...

Indie Rock

Pave The Rocket

St. Louis band Pave The Rocket blend melodic alternative rock, angular indie/emo rock, post-hardcore and noise rock. Their shelved 1998 sessions return as The Lost Album...

Dream Pop

smush

Brooklyn-based shoegaze band smush pair hazy, melodic guitars with noise-rock weight and increasingly adventurous electronic production. Their second album, i’ll always w...

Noise Rock

Death From Above 1979

Toronto duo Death From Above 1979 turn bass, drums and distortion into a tense collision of dance-punk, noise rock and garage-rock force. Their fifth album, Private Lives...

Hardcore

Soul Glo

Philadelphia hardcore band Soul Glo fuse punk, screamo, noise and hip-hop around Pierce Jordan’s rapid-fire, deeply personal writing. Their 14-track album NA I’M GON GRAB...

Noise Rock

Porcelain

Austin post-hardcore / noise-rock four-piece in the lineage of Unwound and Drive Like Jehu.

Noise Rock

Wrong Man

Wrong Man are a Belgium post-hardcore band featuring members of Oathbreaker, Partisan and Rise And Fall. Their sound pulls from noisy, melodic ’90s post-hardcore and indi...

Indie Rock

Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984 around the core lineup of J Mascis on guitar and vocals, Lou Barlow on bass and vocals, and Murph on drums. Across t...

Noise Rock

Bleached Cross

Bleached Cross are a Chicago band pulling post-punk, industrial music, darkwave, blackened hardcore, and noise rock into something cold, heavy, and emotionally direct. Th...

Hardcore

Dead Tired

Dead Tired is a five-piece Canadian hardcore punk band formed in Hamilton, Ontario, in 2014. Fronted by George Pettit, the lead vocalist of post-hardcore band Alexisonfir...

Hardcore

Show Me The Body

Show Me the Body (SMTB) is a New York City post-hardcore band formed in 2009. The trio consists of Julian Cashwan Pratt (vocals/banjo), Harlan Steed (bass), and Nijol Ben...

Punk

Bitter Branches

Hailing from Philadelphia, the post-hardcore powerhouse Bitter Branches brings together members from notable bands like Deadguy, Lifetime, and Kid Dynamite. Their sophomo...

Grunge

Bed Bug Guru

Bed Bug Guru is a sludgy alt-rock band formed in 2022 among college friends who came together bonding over bands like DIIV, Duster, and Modern Color. Wanting to sound lik...

Shoegaze

They Are Gutting A Body Of Water

They Are Gutting a Body of Water (aka TAGABOW), is a Philadelphia-based band formed in 2016 by Douglas Dulgarian, initially as a solo project. The band has since expanded...

Hardcore

Chat Pile

Chat Pile is an American noise rock band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The band is composed of four members using the pseudonyms Raygun Busch (vocals), Luther Manhole (gu...

Shoegaze

A Place To Bury Strangers

A Place to Bury Strangers is a Brooklyn, New York based noise rock and shoegaze band that formed in 2002. The trio is currently composed of Oliver Ackermann (guitar/vocal...

Indie Rock

The Jesus Lizard

The Jesus Lizard, one of the original noise rock bands with a history starting from the late 80s in Austin, Texas and ultimately moving to Chicago, evolved to become a le...