This is a terrain with gapings of stomach-dropping reminders. This is a landscape with the remains of a waiting room. This is a call to cope with the splayed guts of an extracted grief. This is a flash with dapples of fast-acting yet fleeting hope. This eponymous record by Rolling Boxcar International is a wound rope revealing itself slowly to show that what you thought was a noose is actually a lasso.
Mannequin Flowers’ new single embodies the visceral feeling of something holding you in, coating you and seeping through your cells.
The Nashville emo group’s third album shows even more polish, even as they grapple with growth, everyday minutia, and making the same mistakes.
Silence by Sonny Casey is a slowburn, intricate yet sparse folksy retelling of a childhood that left more bullet holes in its wake than it ever bore a sense of being cared for in earnest.
This lifts you up and tickles your senses into submission. It’s fun, it’s catchy, and it’s so effervescent that it feels alive.
Eliza opens up about the creation of Death Drive, balancing fun, grief, and hope, and playing new songs live after a touring hiatus.
In his return to music after a brief hiatus, Chuck Gibson ties his love for “eccentric weird-kid alt-pop” into his everyday life in order to better flow his bliss.
“Eyes Wide Shut” lives in that paradise where there’s no right or wrong. It’s soft and hazy, just like the moment right before you fall asleep.
There’s a kind of joy running through “Magnolias,” the specific kind of joy you feel when you’re finally far away from something that used to hold you down.
“Safe And Sound” sounds like it was recorded in an empty parking garage at 3am, dreamy, echoing, and strangely beautiful.
Chicago’s Blind Adam and the Federal League, both musicians and activists, release two songs that call listeners to the front lines of their communities.
Calypso’s Curse puts out a message of dignity and self-love with beauty and elegance, while also highlighting an incredible array of talented musical performances in their first single in two years.
the chimes and blips of the computer-world and the fuzzy guitars make the song sound like a simulation itself.
“Psychic” sounds optimistic and bold on the surface while carrying something heavier underneath, and that contrast is what makes it work.
Vocals that sound like they’re crackling through a dying signal, “Beside Me” wraps longing in a gritty, cinematic haze that feels new and alive.
“… an expressive and emotive track that dances between intimate quietude and more expansive, romantic and stormy spaces – as if both performer and listener has stepped from hearth to heath in swift and dramatic, dream-like shifts…”
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The LA punk rockers sneak in a fast-paced 46-second song before Halloween, and before the full moon makes them transform!
Album: Rolling Boxcar International – Rolling Boxcar International 
Single: Mannequin Flowers – White Silver 
Album: Dad Hats – wash. rinse. repeat. 
