You may be familiar with Sam Johnson from his work in Choke Up. The Boston based post-hardcore group has been churning out fantastic music for the last decade and Sam Johnson continues honing in on his craft. His debut solo LP, 'Along the Dark Edges of Everything,' puts the spotlight on crafting thoughtful songs rooted in Americana and indie-rock.

'Along the Dark Edges of Everything' will be released on September 24th, 2021 via What We Talk About Records (pre-order).

For fans of piano rock, pseudo-VCR-home-video, the 90s, and hell, even The Home Depot, comes Telethon's new album, Swim Out Past The Breakers, out August 30 on Take This To Heart Records (pre-order). Named after a lyric from the song "Santa Monica" by Everclear, Telethon vocal mastermind Kevin Tully was inspired by the nihilistic but blissed-out imagery of the line: "swim out past the breakers, watch the world die."

Hawthorne Heights have announced their eighth full-length album "The Rain Just Follows Me", which will be released digitally on September 10, 2021 via Pure Noise Records.

“The most unbelievable part of this story is that this entire album was written and recorded BEFORE the pandemic”, singer JT Woodruff shares. “All of this darkness and turmoil is basically a summation of the coldest and loneliest nights I’ve tried to reconcile for the past 17 years”.

From the depths of whatever the hell last year was comes Future Suits, the new album from Chicago's Pet Symmetry (pre-order). In a world that's always trying to beat you down, Future Suits is a statement of positivity in the face of it all––your dumb-ass boss, the evil cops, that one person who really sucks, global disasters, and even your own mind.

On September 24, Mac McCaughan will release The Sound of Yourself, his second full-length under his own name (pre-order). Along with the album announcement, McCaughan shares “Dawn Bends,” a song he describes as “a cautionary tale about getting a little too into the isolation.” The bittersweet single is bolstered not only by Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster but the esteemed trio of Yo La Tengo on bass, organ, guitar, and vocals. 

Returning with their 11th studio album, the dynamic and explorative California-based rock band Thrice announce Horizons/East, out September 17 via Epitaph Records on all digital platforms. The album exemplifies art as a work of recognition — the human task of perceiving oneself amid details, disasters, and blessings as a relentlessly relational phenomenon, among others. In this, Horizons/East is the rare rock album on which interrelatedness is a theme, painting an adventurous and lush landscape mixed by Scott Evans, that the band self-produced and recorded at their own New Grass Studio.