Oslo, Norway's Flight Mode have joined Tiny Engines who will release a collection LP of the band's trilogy of EPs called The Three Times. The band's new EP, Tøyen, ‘13, completes that trilogy and will be out at the same time on Tiny Engines sister label, sound as language, who released the first two Flight Mode EPs. The Three Times LP is out February 2024 and the first single from Tøyen, ‘13 is "Hyperventilate."
Ghost Party is a new-ish pop punk supergroup of sorts from the Midwest that has released its debut full-length, ‘Afterlife Of The Party’ on Mom’s Basement Records.
Originally slated for release in 2020, the now slightly less Young Rochelles are finally back with their sophomore release.
While Sunderland in the North of England will forever be associated with the almighty Leatherface, the post-industrial town has more to offer musically. Case in point: Tearjerker.
At this year’s Sjock Festival, I had the absolute pleasure of watching Private Function play the best show of the weekend. Which is saying something if you had a look at the line-up.
Footballhead is a Chicago-based alternative rock band headed by singer/songwriter Ryan Nolen. At its heart, the band is a vessel to toil forward through internal and external insecurity. It also serves the unrelenting spirit of new-millennium Midwestern youth, with MTV and skatepark dreams in the core of their memories. By blending pop structures with alt and emo sounds, Footballhead channels the frantic, dramatic, and anthemic to map the pressure points of existence. It’s outcast music, revitalized in search of a modern, blissful awakening.
Legendary indie-rock band Grandaddy has announced a brand new studio album Blu Wav set for release February 16, 2024 via Dangerbird Records. A prolific storyteller, Jason Lytle is inspired by the overwhelming beauty of nature to the mundane moments that spark life’s strongest memories. Introducing pedal steel into the band’s repertoire for the first time, buoyant lead single “Watercooler” comments on the dichotomy of both. It was inspired by having his own outdoorsy rock guy (in both senses of the word) lifestyle while his partner had an office job.
Legendary independent rock label Equal Vision Records and Codeseven are excited to announce the Friday, December 1 release of Go Let It In, the influential ‘90s/‘00s North Carolina-based melodic hardcore band’s first album in 20 years. A soaring 10-song showcase well worth the wait, Go Let It In addresses the universal emotions all humans experience via catchy reflections on falling in and out of love along with hard-hitting tracks aimed at destroying your enemy.
Walk The Plank will be releasing their new EP "Loathe" out on Mt. Crushmore Records January 12th, 2024 (pre-order). Produced by Ben Green (Fairweather), this will be their first release since 2018's "Void Treader".
Packed with the grimy riffs and vocal growl that they've perfected over the years, Walk The Plank hits us with 6 energetic songs that will bring you back to the insanity of a 3am DIY show at a Miami hostel.
Sheer Mag have labored to carve out a discernibly singular position within the canon of contemporary rock: toggling with ease between the refined flourishes of a “connoisseur’s band” and the ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting—yet displaying no strict loyalty to either camp—their sound, while oft-referenced, is unmistakably and immediately recognizable as theirs alone.
