Indie Rock
popfree
Orange County emo band popfree pair melodic indie rock with a post-hardcore edge, drawing from bands like No Knife and The Jazz June. Their seven-track full-length Overt...
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Post Hardcore
The best post-hardcore artists featured on Release Wave
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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...
Punk
Fake Names
Fake Names bring together veterans of Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion, Refused, Girls Against Boys, Soulside, Rocket From The Crypt and The Faith, channeling D.C. h...
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...
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...
Post Hardcore
TIDES
TIDES are a Jacksonville, Florida punk band formed in late 2023 by longtime Northeast Florida scene veterans Sean Slater, Beau Crum, Alex Van Auken, Chris Jones and Dan W...
Post Hardcore
Teddy DuChamp's Army
Teddy DuChamp's Army, formed in Pittsburgh in 1998, is a DIY punk band known for their punchy melodies and big sing-along hooks. Fans of Seaweed, Samiam, and Rival School...
Pop Punk
Dan Keyes
Dan Keyes fronted Austin post-hardcore band Recover before moving to New York and turning the dance-rock project Young Love into an Island Records signing. Two decades on...
Emo
Sowing
Massachusetts rock band Sowing pair melodic emo and post-hardcore intensity with the heavy, emotionally frayed pull of Title Fight, Superheaven, Fiddlehead and label mate...
Shoegaze
heaving.
heaving. is a four-piece heavy band from Peoria, IL blending nu-metal, grunge, post-hardcore, and shoegaze into a dense, riff-driven wall of sound. Singer/guitarist Morga...
Metalcore
Ocean Sleeper
Hailing from Gippsland in regional Victoria, Ocean Sleeper have built their name on a forceful mix of modern metalcore, emotionally direct songwriting and arena-sized mel...
Emo
I Promised The World
I Promised The World are a Denton, Texas five-piece who make scream-sung, early-2000s post-hardcore that sounds beamed in from a MySpace-era basement — screamo, Midwest e...
Emo
A Static Lullaby
A Static Lullaby are a post-hardcore band from Chino Hills, California, formed in 2001 — one of the acts that hard-wired the scream-and-sing dynamic into early-2000s post...
Hardcore
Feldspar
Feldspar are a Rome-based band caught between scenes and continents, pairing the urgency of hardcore with the melodic pull of power-pop, modern punk, and ’90s alternative...
Dream Pop
Cold Gawd
Cold Gawd is a California shoegaze and post-hardcore band built around dense guitars, gauzy melody and a hard rhythmic push. The group returns August 28, 2026 with the si...
Hardcore
Recollection
Recollection began as a collaboration between vocalist Josh Hynes of Rude Awakening and Hammer Bros and guitarist Joshua Long, whose credits include Skinhead, Criminal In...
Hardcore
Initiate
Initiate are a Southern California hardcore band fronted by vocalist Crystal Pak, welding down-the-middle hardcore aggression to soaring melodies and post-hardcore textur...
Emo
Khamsin
Khamsin is a rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, centered around the songwriting of vocalist Jacob Curry. With bassist Cole Harrison, drummer Caleb Pierce, and guitarist...
Noise Rock
Porcelain
Austin post-hardcore / noise-rock four-piece in the lineage of Unwound and Drive Like Jehu.