Stunned with grief in the months following the Ghost Ship fire, Oakland-based Stephen Steinbrink ate LSD daily, bought a synthesizer, and locked himself in his shipping container studio, refusing to sleep for days as he wrote and recorded what would become 'Utopia Teased', as a means of working through his overwhelming feelings of cynicism and loss.

Chicago, IL indie-punks, Typesetter, have announced their upcoming sophomore full-length, Nothing Blues, due out October 26th from 6131 Records (Julien Baker, Touche Amore, Joyce Manor).

The long-awaited new album from Antarctigo Vespucci (ft. tourmates turned best buddies Jeff Rosenstock and Chris Farren), Love in the Time of E-Mail, will be released October 26 on Polyvinyl Record Co. Like the non-existent explorer they’re named after, here, Antarctigo Vespucci chart a map of something at once new and familiar: missed connections, texts lingering on “read,” and the words that go unspoken. Love in the Time of E-Mail marks the first new Antarctigo Vespucci music to exist since 2015’s Leavin’ La Vida Loca, with first single “White Noise” leading the pack.

There’s a new Direct Hit album on the horizon called Crown of Nothing. Today we’ve got your first taste with the debut of a new song/video! Animated by the talented Walker Dubois, “Welcome To Heaven” showcases Direct Hit’s mastery of sending the listener on a transcendental journey via melody, lyrics, instrumentation, and imagery. It’ll have you tappin’ your toe and ruminating on the afterlife all at the same time. Check out what vocalist Nick Woods said about just how deep the band went with the first new single.

The only constant is change. Musical outfit Strange Ranger embrace this tired sentiment through and through, in ways that are anything but cliche. The original duo, vocalist/guitarist Isaac Eiger and bassist Fred Nixon have taken on a rotating cast of additional members throughout the years before settling in with current drummer Nathan Tucker. Much like the ever-evolving nature of their lineup, the band’s sound is also in a continuous state of flux and expansion. The most recent result of which, is EP How It All Went By.

Eternal Return is a complete life-to-death journey. As unplanned things go, it's an observation of as well as a reflection on life's ups and downs, joys and sorrows, beginnings and ends. Between the band's 2015, highly acclaimed Grief's Infernal Flower, and 2018's Eternal Return, WINDHAND welcomed new life, survived lineup changes, and mourned unexpected death. The songs and song ordering are the direct result of those experiences. Where "Halcyon" is assured in its opening, the closing track "Feather" is its funeral march.

Stand Atlantic have released the new song and music video for "Lavender  Bones”, the first single off their upcoming album Skinny Dipping out 26th October. Skinny  Dipping is the  follow up to the Australian pop-rock’s trio 2017 EP Sidewinder, and their debut for Hopeles Records.