Single: The Thermals – Spirit Collectors 
Double feature: Local Legends release “Plays Nice” and “Now With More F-Bombs” 
Double feature: New singles from The Boy Detective and Bobby Edge 
Single: The Thermals – Spirit Collectors
The Thermals are back after a decade with a new song that returns to the band’s lo-fi roots, in an attempt to chase away time-wasting, soul-sucking demons.
Double feature: Local Legends release “Plays Nice” and “Now With More F-Bombs”
Milwaukee’s Local Legends live up to their name with two new three-track EPs of sweet ska music.
Double feature: New singles from The Boy Detective and Bobby Edge
Bobby Edge releases a cover of the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” while Boy Detective sends up the ’60s band with “The Beach Boys Were Full Of It”.
Album: Extra Space – New Colors
Extra Space sounds like a band playing in a cozy underground Brooklyn venue, but their ethereal aura could just as easily fill Madison Square Garden.
Single: Incandenza – Before the Fall
Full of contradiction, this feels large and anthemic but also understated and intimate. Soft and beautiful but hard-hitting and bold, Before The Fall is expertly realised.
Single: Mo Troper – Let’s Get Back To Music
Coming off a whirlwind past couple of years, Mo Troper returns with a new single that speaks to finding light and inspiration at the lowest points of life.
Single: Skylights – Coloma
Full of personality and individuality from the outset, the fresh and exciting new single from the Pacific Northwest quartet is made of many things.
Single: Perennial – What’s New On The Beat Scene
Perennial’s new single from their upcoming LP “Modernism” rages against any form of limitation and commands the spirit to move us.
Single: 11% Wolf – If I’m A Rock
If you need a song to put a smile on your face, or a song that’s just a little squishy to send to someone you admire, “If I’m A Rock” is a very good option.
Single: Halfway Quaker – Let Us Fly
From the first moment, this feels human, acoustic, imperfect.
Single: Black Bordello – Numb-Lock
Black Bordello’s latest single feels like their audition tp be Denis Villeneuve’s “Bond 26” theme song.
Single: mesnes. x tegan jorja – nodus tollens
Bittersweet and melancholic, “nodus tollens” feels less like a song and more like quietly sitting with emotions you have been avoiding for far too long.
Single: j. pastel – Eclipse
Chase Durrett and Casey Bruce have been building their music up since the summer of 2019, and it truly feels like this song solidifies the work they’ve accomplished.
Album: The Doomstompers – Take A Beat
The Doomstompers’ debut album is powerful, smooth, and well-paced, and one you must not miss lest you forever regret it.
Single: Count Shaw – Running Dry
“Running Dry” feels like a time warp of one looking at their past mistakes through a flip book, or a projector playing snippets of their life from an old VHS camera.
Album: Threat Level Burgundy – Oh, Nice
Ska with an emo punk twist and less-punchy horns makes Threat Level Burgundy’s new album definitely worth listening to.
Single: five mango trees – rose quarter
An intriguing, inventive, captivating tapestry of sound – rose quarter is a loveable, lo-fi slacker rock anthem with a distinct sonic identity and is an undeniable victory.
Album: Thee Windows – Out and Down
The Baltimore band’s first long-play features a sampling of sounds — indie, shoegaze, Americana, and Midwestern emo — to help keep you cool this summer.
