Crunching and melodic, Nashville power trio The By Gods pine for the dreams of youth on new single, “Miss It.” Taken from the band’s latest LP, Get On Feelings, “Miss It” is honest rock and roll that harkens back to…
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Thanks to YouTube, Don Johnson’s video for “Heartbeat” lives on, as does his Miami Vice costar Philip Michael Thomas’s strobe-shrouded demigod turn in “Just the Way I Planned It”. Not much has changed since the image-obsessed ’80s thanks to social…
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Returning from the orbit of 2014’s Hollow Ponds, the next mission for London’s Dan Carney (aka Astronauts) is sophomore outing End Codes. Scheduled for an April launch date, “Civil Engineer” marks the album’s initial countdown. Tempering ephemeral acoustic folk with…
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As if plunking Pink Floyd down at CBGBs circa 1975, Chicago quintet The Ritz Club open its eponymous EP with “Walk Away,” a multi-faceted trip through the past four decades of post-punk experimentation. At only four songs, The Ritz Club…
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With jangling guitars and cooing vocals from Anna Fox Rochinski, Boston’s Quilt pairs new single “Roller” with black comedy in the Adi Putra-directed video. Borrowing liberally from Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, the ghosts occupying the video for “Roller” are…
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Channeling American counterculture icon Steve McQueen, Berlin-based singer/songwriter Pauline Andrès didn’t require Dale Earnhardt Jr. to appear in the celluloid-worthy video for her new single. A sullen Hollywood tale of escapism, “Drive Like Steve McQueen” finds Andrès at her best,…
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A hibernatory basement jam from Santa Barbara, California quartet Dante Elephante, the yearning for vibrant American thrills is nobly captured in the monochromatic video for “Pasadena Dreams” directed by Luke Barham. The second single from the band’s October 2015 debut…
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Freaks for Geeks, Chicago’s musical amphisbaena, draw from rock and hip-hop influences to create a bipolar hybrid of sludge jams and jaunty indie pop. Set to release TIN, their latest EP, on 9 February, Freaks for Geeks have released an…
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One does not enter a Jeremy Squires song with casual ears. The North Carolina singer/songwriter mines the depths of human emotion, exposing raw nerves and, in turn, leaving listeners to do their own soul-searching. Squires is set to follow up 2013’s…
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Much has been made of Philadelphia wunderkinds Queen of Jeans since they emerged last October with their wallflower-shaming first single, “Dance (Get Off Your Ass).” Layering the Paris Sisters in attitude and reverb, the quartet of Miriam Devora, Matheson Glass,…
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Philadelphia’s lo-fi punk poet Graham Repulski has issued yet another musical edict to sate our collective longing for the halcyon days of Dayton basement rock. Set to issue the four-song collection High On Mt. Misery on 1 March, Repulski has…
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Releasing a new single just days before being named to PopMatters’ Best Musical Hopes to Break Out in 2016, Philadelphia punk trio Cayetana show why with “Freedom 1313.” The a-side to the band’s two-song Tired Eyes EP, “Freedom1313” is a…
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