Album: Bleak Streak – Peak Bleak
Sweden’s Bleak Streak rave on about the lowest lows of life with punk rhythms written to raise your spirits, regardless of the lyrics.
Month: March 2026
EP: figure eight – until the sun swallows the earth / hummingbird
There’s something special about this two-song, ten-minute EP from figure eight, Oakland’s optimistic ambient doomers. (Can we make that a new genre just for them?)
Single: Desk Job. – Maybe Someday
Through processing grief, NYC’s alt-punk outfit Desk Job. have created a triumphant tribute.
Album: The Pretty Flowers – Never Felt Bitter
The Pretty Flowers’ third album uses the ideas of space and community to produce a big sound, one more massive than the sum of its parts.
Album: SSAANN – Higher
The Milwaukee dream gaze band’s debut album sequences lush synths into a symphony for introspection.
Single: Very Busy People – Impression, Sunrise
In 1872, Claude Monet debuted a painting of a sunrise over the sea, and 150 years later, an indie band out of Austin, Texas, captures the same feeling in song.
Single: Bayonne – January
Bayonne puts his vocals on full display in this colorful musical cloud of a new single.
Album: Hanemoon – Untitled
A polished tapestry of guitar-driven bedroom pop, 90’s slacker indie, and 60’s psych-pop whose effect lands softly, vivid in its impact but blurred at the edges like a memory.
EP: Wandour – Echoterrium
With immersive layers and cassette-like textures, Wandour’s new EP finds strength in atmosphere, nostalgia, and detail.
Single: Madeleine Rose – Strangers
In her return to recording music, Madeleine Rose reconnects with her voice and herself on her “debut” single
EP: Against The Voices – HAPP-EP
Against The Voices’ new EP is a musical Trojan horse, wrapping unsettling subject matter in inviting indie-pop warmth.
Single: Surtsey – Coast
With a graceful, gratifying sound that would fit nicely alongside Jimmy Eat World, Whiskeytown and Wilco, this Missouri band are certainly in good company.
Single: Bliss Abyss – wrecked
On “wrecked”, Bliss Abyss blends the hazy, ethereal texture of early ‘90s shoegaze and the energetic pop-punk vocals of the 2000s.
Singles: Lavelles – And I Roll/Funny
An exciting glimpse into two very different sides of this promising young LA quartet.
Single: Frog – Je Ne Sais Pas
“Je Ne Sais Pas” captures the Bateman brothers at the height of their creative whimsy, and proves once again that Frog might be the most interesting thing to happen to popular music in the past decade.
Single: Wonderfun – Hometown Song
A glorious, knowing pop rock amalgamation, Hometown Song is a formidable musical force to be reckoned with.
Single: Lisa Cerbone – Pretend Like You Belong
An immediately striking piece of work from the Baltimore-based singer/songwriter, this is emotive, evocative and vivid.
Single: LANNDS – Hold My Place
One of the most unique and atmospheric tracks I’ve heard in quite a while; a trip-hop ballad for true interstellar travelers.
Single: Skinny Dippers – Please Be Kind, Rewind
The spirits of classic and modern rock powerhouses live on in Skinny Dippers’ new indie folk/rock song, with charm in abundance.
Start-Track at the Show: Murkage Dave + Kamran Khan + Nadeem Din-Gabisi at Village Underground
Kinda Grizzly covers Murkage Dave at London’s Village Underground, featuring Kamran Khan, Nadeem Din-Gabisi, and other friends.