Jay Alan Kay (a.k.a. Jason Kotarski) has been embedded in the Michigan DIY scene for more than 20 years, most notably as the singer and guitar player for Singing Lungs (Count Your Lucky Stars Records, Sell The Heart Records).
Philadelphia's most adventurous guitar pop band, Another Michael, are gearing up for the release of their new album Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down, due out May 31st from Run For Cover Records. The album arrives hot on the heels of its sibling, 2023's Wishes To Fulfill, providing a more experimental counterpart and highlighting Another Michael's unending creativity.
Thirty years after the release of their powerhouse debut Hitchhike to Rhome, alt-country pioneers Old 97’s are celebrating with the announcement of their lucky 13th studio album American Primitive that will be released on April 5 via ATO Records. Opening with the lyric “You’ve got to dance like the world is falling down around you, because it is,” American Primitive radiates with rambunctious joy even as Miller’s lyrics contend with complex questions of love and mental illness and the routinely daunting state of the world.
With time, we come to understand the way the joy of connection is mirrored by the void of loss, how the constancy of love is matched only by the impermanence of life, the simple idea that we could not create light if we did not risk the dark—we’d never need to.
On their debut LP, ‘Another Summer,’ Portland four-piece Lazy Sunday manage to sound both deliciously jangly, energetic and sweet all at once.
Hailing from Oakland, CA, States Of Nature come at you with a ‘danceable hybrid of Post-Hardcore and Rock N’Roll’ disclaimer.
Toronto punk rock act Wine Lips have announced their fourth full-length record, Super Mega Ultra, set for release on April 5th, 2024 via Stomp Records. Recorded by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack in Ontario, the album is jam-packed with 12 ramped-up supersonic ear-scorching auditory delicacies including “Derailer,” the opening track and first official single.
DIIV —Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman, and Zachary Cole Smith—have announced their fourth album, Frog in Boiling Water. Produced by Chris Coady and set for release on May 24th via Fantasy Records, Frog In Boiling Water was a four-year process that nearly broke the band before the album was completed. With an aim to push their sound, make a record that challenged them, and treat the band as a democracy for the first time, DIIV began an ambitious journey, both individually and collectively.
Formed in 2015, Chicago hardcore band Kharma pack a pummeling, rhythmic style made to get you moving. The band has announced their fourth release, A World Of Our Own, due out April 12th on Flatspot Records. Working with Jon Markson at The Animal Farm (Regulate, Jivebomb), the band set out to record their most personal and colossal material yet.
Laura Jane Grace’s new album, ‘Hole In My Head,’ kicks off in the best of ways with the fuzzed out garage-meets-power-pop of the title track. Recorded at Native Sound in St.
