OK Cool - the band of Chicago shredders Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist Waller - announced their debut album Chit Chat will be released on August 1 st, 2025. Its first single “ Waawooweewaa ” packs a zesty punch and finds the duo indulging in their most straightforward rock n’ roll sensibilities. “I wrote the demo for this song in 2019 after a recent breakup, and I was kind of just musing on the patterns of my past breakups and how I felt in that moment,” explains Stiebris. “Any breakup of a serious relationship just sucks and I was in my feelings about it ending.

On July 11, California-based singer songwriter Pat Hatt will release his self-titled EP. Check out the EP's lead single "Drunk On Leaving" and its accompanying music video, which was directed and filmed by Alejandro Zapata, below. Drawing from a wide range of influences, including everything from hardcore to honky-tonk, singer-songwriter Pat Hatt crafts his own brand of Americana with songs that give listeners a sense of heartfelt humility and grit.

Yawn Mower are excited to announce their new album I Just Can’t Wait To Die, due out on August 15th. The Asbury Park, NJ band formed in 2015, and over the past decade they have released a handful of EPs and their 2022 debut LP To Each Their Own Coat. Along the way they’ve made their mark on the New Jersey scene, and shared the stage with incredible bands like Mannequin Pussy, Oso Oso, The Good Life, Hot Snakes and more. Their sophomore album I Just Can’t Wait To Die propels the band forward, with a record that’s equal parts joyful, reflective and humorously absurd.

Boston based self-described "heavy-emo/soft-punk" quartet Unseemlier have announced a brand new album titled I Have A Screw Loose, Somewhere, which is set to be released June 13th via Sell The Heart Records (pre-order). It is the follow up to their 2024 EP The Truth Is We Out Here, also released via Sell The Heart

Slow Crush have announced their new album, Thirst, on which the dynamic four piece further cement themselves at the forefront of rock and shoegaze. On Thirst, Slow Crush’s dynamic textures, propulsive rhythms and gauzy riffs glow bright as ever, but this time with more grit. Today they’ve shared the album’s leading single and title track which emerges as the defining anthem. The band tell, “‘Thirst’ is about an unquenchable desire for what’s next, with focus on essence and balance. Not losing yourself in the ever-growing distractions that surround us.

Conceptual band La Dispute have announced their first album in six years No One Was Driving the Car for a September 5th release via Epitaph. Self produced and heavily inspired by the 2017 psychological thriller First Reformed, No One Was Driving the Car grapples with malaise in the shadow of the looming apocalypse, which has noticeably been worsened by the advancement of tech.

 Punk rock troubadour Walt Hamburger is back and louder than ever. Today marks the release of his new single “Insolence,” a punchy, full-band anthem exploring the isolating realities of modern dating culture. The track sets the tone for Hamburger’s upcoming album “…And Louie!” — due out June 20th — and features an all-star cast of punk rock royalty.