Diary Shares New Single “Drive It”

Photo by Cal Glorioso New York-based five-piece Diary will release their debut LP, Spiral Bound, on September 4th via Kanine Records, and today they share second single "Drive It," a psych-tinged track with spacey, swirling guitars and synths that create a haunting backdrop for vocalist Kevin Bendis's hook-filled melodies. The song's accompanying video — directed by award-winning filmmaker Nadia Bedj (Tribeca Film Festival, Slamdance) and choreographed by Lilly Fridlyand (Princeton University Ballet) — features a man moving through the streets of NYC with a body he can no longer control, mimicking the song's otherworldly sound.

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CITIZEN Share New Single ‘Good Fortune’

Photo by Atiba Jefferson Toledo, OH rock powerhouse, Citizen, are releasing their highly anticipated new album, Halcyon Blues, this Friday, August 7th, via Run For Cover Records. To mark the occasion they're sharing the album's titanic opening track, "Good Fortune." Halcyon Blues is a dynamic, confident release that draws on nearly two decades of musical and personal growth to emphatically declare what their dedicated fans already know: Citizen are one of our great modern rock bands–and they’re at the absolute top of their game. "Good Fortune…

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Chuck Robertson And The Aloha Caddies Release New Single “In My Head”

Photo courtesy of the band. Chuck Robertson and the Aloha Caddies return for new single "In My Head" Charles "Chuck" Robertson will never stay still. A European tour with Mad Caddies, Vans Warped Tour, followed by the relaunch of his other project. In 2021 Chuck released an album under the name "Chuck Robertson and friends" with tunes between rock n roll, blues, punk and reggea. Now, after the tragic loss of a bandmember of the "friends", Chuck decided to both re-release this album called "All out of Dreams" in their honor and put out a new record in 2027.

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John Carpenter’s Debut Graphic Novel CATHEDRAL Out Now; New Single “Revenge” Appears On The CATHEDRAL Album Out August 7th

Daniel Davies, Cody Carpenter, John Carpenter / Photo by Sophie Gransard A brand new terror is emerging from the shadows of John Carpenter’s dark imaginings this summer. Out today, August 4, 2026 via Storm King Comics, CATHEDRAL is Carpenter’s highly anticipated first original graphic novel. The release is accompanied by a new John Carpenter single “Revenge” which will appear on the book’s corresponding album CATHEDRAL arriving this Friday, August 7 on Sacred Bones Records. Get ready for extreme horror on all fronts – the Lord of the Underground is emerging!

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Wrong Man Share New Single “Petty Thief”

Photo courtesy of the band. With a sound that reflects an eclectic range of influences, Belgium's Wrong Man continue to forge their own path with every record they release, and every song they write. Their unique brand of soulful post hardcore is equal parts noisy and melodic, at times bluesy and moody. Depending on who you ask, you’ll hear references to bands like Quicksand & The Jesus Lizard, or Sonic Youth & The Wipers. Featuring members of Oathbreaker, Partisan and Rise And Fall, Wrong Man formed to do something different than previous projects.

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Caden Stone – How Cold You Have Become

Caden Stone, an outstanding American artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, has recently released a brand-new single, “How Cold You Have Become,” and it’s one of the greatest songs you’ll hear in a while. It’s his second release this year, documenting his very successful experimentation with several complementary music genres. For those who might not know, Caden Stone creates catchy, memorable, engaging music that often leans towards beautiful, captivating, dark sonic maneuvers and slow-burning rhyhtmic patterns. That’s the case with “How Cold You Have Become,” a goth song at its core but with many other styles woven in along the way.

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The Offsailors Release “Too Old To Skate”

Photo courtesy of the band. Hailing from Red Deer, Alberta, The Offsailors are the ultimate definition of fiery party punk. Splitting the difference between fast-paced 90s skate punk and beer-soaked anthems, this energetic outfit has quickly become a staple of Western Canada’s DIY underground. Signed to High End Denim Records, the band delivered their definitive call-to-arms with the album One More Then We Go—a record packed with high-speed riffs, unfiltered grit, and unrelenting hooks. Whether they’re tearing up the stage at Alberta’s annual Punksgiving festival or sharing the floor with the region’s finest melodic punk acts, The Offsailors bring an explosive, raw energy that commands you to raise a glass and move your feet.

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Nightside Remedy Release Debut Single “Peace Of Mind”

Photo courtesy of the band. Hungarian modern alternative metal band Nightside Remedy have released their debut single, "Peace Of Mind," marking the first chapter of the band's upcoming four-track EP, set for release later this year.  Drawing on personal experiences, Peace Of Mind explores themes of anxiety, self-reflection and the search for inner peace. Blending heavy guitars, atmospheric textures and melodic songwriting, the track introduces the band's modern take on alternative metal. The single arrives alongside an official visualizer and is available now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and all major streaming platforms.

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Daily Thompson Release New Single ‘Fake A Smile’

Photo courtesy of the band. ‘Fake A Smile’, the new single by German indie noiseniks Daily Thompson, captures the feeling of smiling through the pain, being surrounded by friends, lights, and noise, yet feeling completely disconnected. “This song explores anxiety, self-doubt, and the loneliness that can exist even in love and in a crowded room,” explains bassist Mercedes Lalakakis-Bee. “Honest, vulnerable, and deeply relatable, it's about the battle between the version of yourself the world sees and the one you're desperately trying to hold together.” ‘Fake A Smile’ beautifully articulates the feeling for anyone who's ever felt invisible in a room full of people.

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KaliKamo – Jedinstvo LP (PDV)

It’s summer, a season when we should gravitate towards some exotic travel destination, drink cocktails, and seek refreshment beside the seaside. But, in an age of so-called liberal capitalism, when people hardly get by each month, we are bound to a cold one in front of a grocery store before the neighbours call the authorities. Should we even relax in an era of ongoing global conflicts, overwhelming systemic and police oppression, low incomes, and even lower life quality? Liberal capitalism was never a socio-political-economic option to answer the question. Instead, it offers continuous slavery, high poverty rates, mass depression, and rewards us with second-hand freedom just to let us know we could be more free if we work even harder.

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Jimi Triple B’s 666 Blues Band – Bad Cards, Hard Rains and Nowhere Trains LP (Geenger Records)

Today, we have a treat for all those blues aficionados out there. If you’ve been familiar with the Belgrade underground scene for a while, then you must have heard of Jimi Triple B's 666 Blues Band, a noisy, garage-infused blues band existing on a stubborn punk rock attitude. Now, anyone who’s been listening to blues music for a while would think this could be some sort of anomaly, but those who follow what Slobodan Boba Đukić has done for decades will definitely consider this as a logical move. For a man who played in bands like Drawbacks, That Shining Star, Hang, Eyesburn, In From The Cold, and probably many more acts along the way, 666 Blues Band just expands his musical vocabulary.

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LeBarons – Running River

As the years go by and alt-country music grows increasingly popular, it becomes harder to find genuine bands and artists. Sometimes, it feels like all those music outlets are trying to reinvent the same old wheel by delivering something the greats recorded and released many decades ago, or they even experiment so much that their songs do not sound like alt-country anymore. It certainly has a lot to do with all those trends imposed by the various tastemakers, social media, and streaming platforms, often pushing artists and bands who do not even touch the alt-country base.

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Shiner Cover My Blood Valentine’s Timeless “Only Shallow”

Photo by Andy Mueller Spartan Records and Shiner are excited to announce the Friday, October 9 release of The Y Section, the brand new offering from the celebrated Kansas City shoegaze/post-hardcore band. A career-spanning collection of rarities, unreleased material and hard-to-find tracks drawn from across 25-plus years, The Y Section gathers Shiner’s vast and rich history in one single place. Rather than a greatest hits victory lap, The Y Section is a portrait of a restless, evolving band: the detours, experiments, and overlooked gems that map how Shiner became Shiner.

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Dez Dare Share Single “The Days Are Longer When You’re Around”; Share Italy Tour Dates

‘These Days Are Wild & Blind’ is a collection of 12 songs that will be released one track a month via digital platforms starting March 2026, with the whole album exclusive to Bandcamp and out now.  Taking a more philosophical view of time and the world from Dez’s perspective, these tracks are more personal, introspective and diverse in tone than previous albums. Effortlessly gliding between experimental acoustic excursions to motorik 8bit chants to fuzzed up guitar anthems. I started writing the lyrics for this set of songs in-between shows in Berlin and Brussels.

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DICE Share New Single ‘Echo’

Photo by Anna Cappello Perth’s DICE return with their sophomore album, I Thought The Altitude Would Make It Worth The View. The album contains previously released singles ‘Call Me For A Good Time’, ‘Loose Change’, ‘COOLER’ and another seven tracks including new single ‘Echo’. For the album DICE pivoted away from the grit of their debut toward a more expansive, blissful, lighter, euphoric world. This isn't just a change in mood; it’s a total recalibration of their sonic DNA. To facilitate this evolution, the band decamped to Hollywood’s legendary East West Studios to work with Joe Chiccarelli, a producer whose hands-on approach with The White Stripes (

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Gift Horse To Release Debut Album On October 2nd

Photo courtesy of the band. Absence, the debut album by Kansas City based rock band Gift Horse, is both a return to form and exploration of new territory. Pre-order the album, out October 2 via Expert Work Records here. Listen to lead single, "Distracted," now here. Former members of Coward, an instrumental math rock quartet from Columbia, Missouri, Mikey Wheeler, Nathan Driskill, and Cody Mains began developing new material with former Famines bandmate Matt Cole in the summer of 2024. Dense, angular riffs underscore dynamic arrangements. Delicate melodies soften harsh edges.

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Premiere: Rad Skulls Share New Song And Lyric Video “Dotted Lines”

Photo courtesy of the band. Rad Skulls share new song and lyric video "Dotted Lines" 'Dotted Lines' is the first song from the upcoming album 'See You In Hell, Poser' which will be released via Engineer Records (UK), Sell The Heart (US), Waterslide (Japan), Scene Police (Germany), and High End Denim (Canada) on the 18th September.

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Cam Cole – Get Up Ya Honky Tonk

With such a rich history, as with longstanding genres like rock music, it became increasingly difficult to craft music that would stand out from anything previously recorded and released. Artists and bands do their best to deliver sonically and emotionally resonant songs that will immediately make an impact on listeners, but as we all know, it’s not something every music outlet is capable of. And when we consider trends imposed by tastemakers, social media, and streaming platforms, it’s more than obvious why many artists and bands go the same route instead of experimenting and delivering unique music to the table.

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Purest Form Released “ANIMAL” Single And Video

Photo by Kris Kirk LA’s visceral dance-punk trio PUREST FORM sign to Dais Records for their next EP RESISTANCE, coming September 4. Vocalist Story Beeson, guitarist / programmer Madi Woodward, and bassist Riley Oikawa-Dahlson draw on their respective backgrounds in hardcore bands, and a shared love of industrial and techno, splicing the intensely heavy with the playful and sensual.  RESISTANCE is a potent, 6-track anarchist assault on the system, fueled by collective anger amidst late-stage capitalism and a year of nonstop trauma in LA, from the fires to ICE. 

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Premiere: The Mistakes Share New Single And Video “Think It Over”

Photo courtesy of the band. "Think It Over' is the third single from The Mistakes blasting new album 'Die Laughing'. 'Die Laughing' is the bands fifth studio album and their best yet - rammed with inspirational rousing, in-your-face, singalong punk anthems; pounding drums, pumping basslines, riotous riffage and choruses to die for, these thrilling new baker’s dozen songs seize your shell-likes with their clever arrangements underpinning the band’s trademark lyrical tsunami of wit, sarcasm, questioning defiance and devilment, in fact just about everything you want from a punk rock record and so much more...

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Nerf Herder To Release “IV” On Vinyl For The First Time

Nearly two decades after its original release, Nerf Herder's IV is finally getting the vinyl treatment it has long deserved. On August 14, Oglio Entertainment will release the first-ever LP pressing of the band's acclaimed 2008 reunion album, giving fans a chance to experience this celebrated release on vinyl for the very first time. Originally released on CD through Oglio Records, IV marked the long-awaited return of Nerf Herder's classic lineup—Parry Gripp, Charlie Dennis, and Steve Sherlock. After a few years apart, the trio reunited not to revisit the past, but to prove that the chemistry responsible for some of punk rock's smartest—and funniest—songs was still very much there.

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Jetlag – Wicked Tongue

Music always works in mysterious ways. It’s nearly mind-blowing how some artists and bands craft their songs. Each act has its own approach to songwriting, composing, arranging, recording, and producing, making music one of the most versatile art forms. Of course, those results are readily apparent once the song is on a streaming platform, gradually revealing the brilliance of a songwriter. And it’s always exciting to hear the ideas of someone who put heart and soul into a song for it to resonate profoundly. Jetlag, a band helmed by outstanding singer-songwriter Simon Glancy, is definitely one of those music outlets whose creativity goes beyond comprehension so many times throughout the entire song.

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Golomb Sign To Third Man Records

Photo by Angelina Castillo Third Man Records are proud to announce the worldwide signing of Columbus, Ohio three-piece Golomb - a family name, rhymes with “column”, Mickey (vocals/guitar), Xenia (bass/vocals) and Hawken (drums) - and to confirm the band are heading into the studio imminently to begin work on album three, the follow-up to last year's breakthrough "The Beat Goes On". Golomb today also share a recent live performance, filmed by Trevor Hock during their January show with Greg Freeman at Third Man Records in Cass Corridor, Detroit. During their live exploits thus far, the band have now played at all three Third Man Records venues across Detroit, Nashville and London.

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The Rorts Release ‘Big Decisions’ EP

Photo courtesy of the band. The Rorts are a 3 piece, no bullshit, Rock’n’roll band from Geelong and the Surf Coast. Reincarnated from the infamous Geelong music scene of the 90’s. Picking up the pieces from that era of loud, raucous rock'n'roll to bring a fresh take on high energy, dynamic, melodic and harmonic indie-rock hooks. The Rorts are proud to present their debut LP "Big Decisions" and single release of the same name.

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Prisoner To Release New Album On August 7th

French garage-psych outfit PRISONER will release its self-titled debut album on August 7, 2026, via Wicked Cool Records. Visceral, immersive, and intensely atmospheric, PRISONER introduces a band that treats rock music less like a collection of conventional songs and more like the soundtrack to an unseen film. Driven by fuzz-heavy riffs, motorik rhythms, insistent repetition, and a stripped-down analog sensibility, the largely instrumental album unfolds as a continuous cinematic experience. Traditional song structures give way to texture, tension, and trance-like momentum, allowing each composition to bleed naturally into the next.

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Arms & Armour To Release New Album On September 4th

Photo courtesy of the band. Emerging from the industrial Mecca that is Cleveland and recording in their studio housed in a 140-year-old drill bit factory, Arms & Armour creates a doom wash of guttural noise, guitar groans, synth colorations, drone measures, and repetitive drums on the forthcoming The Hunted album. Akin to bands like Ulver, Swans, Xiu Xiu, Phantogram, GGGOLDDD, Chelsea Wolfe, Portishead, Cult of Luna, Depeche Mode, Darkthrone, Brutus, and others, Arms & Armour blends crushing guitars with angular drums and soaring vocals to create a kind of soundtrack of recovery, from illness, from tragedy, from the pains of contemporary politics, from motherhood and fatherhood, from the realization that aging happens, but art is forever.

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Swans To Release “Newly Sentient Being” On October 2nd

Photo by Mac Janas Swans will release Newly Sentient Being, an audio and video collection that captures the seminal band's final "Big Sound" performance, recorded on Nov. 28, 2025, in Berlin, on Oct. 2 via Young God Records. A glorious goodbye to this stellar version of Swans: Michael Gira, Kristof Hahn, Dana Schechter, Larry Mullins, Phil Puleo, Christopher Pravdica, and Norman Westberg, the album will be available as a 4LP+DVD set with poster, a 2CD+DVD with fold out booklet, a limited edition box set exclusive to the Young God Records webstore, and digitally.

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Goth Fight Cage Release “Untaxed Vehicle” EP

Photo courtesy of the artist. Goth Fight Cage is the solo project from Mark Holloway of Belfast’s heavy weight fuzz champions, Fagash McCann. As Goth Fight Cage, Mark takes a decidedly more indie rock approach to his song writing. Over the course of four successful singles, debut ‘Optimism’, last year’s follow ups ‘I’m Going Out’ and ‘Tired’  and ‘I’m Not In Love With You’, released earlier this year, Mark has already established a sound that allows him to move between spikey guitar indie and intimate acoustic guitar tracks with ease.

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Sunstinger Drop New Single “Spare Me The Rapture”

Photo courtesy of the band. Born from post-industrial areas of Scotland, where wounds from the socio-economic decline have barely healed to scars, and we now find abandoned industry being reclaimed by nature’s slow but unrelenting march. It’s no surprise that when asked about their influences Scottish heavy-post-shoegazers Sunstinger pointed to a strong environmental influence, eschewing the normal litany of bands, that all too often feels like a roll call rather than any meaningful thread to understanding a band’s sound. On the band’s expansive new EP ‘Spare Me the Rapture…

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MC16 Announce New Album

Photo by Will Hutchinson Following the success of last year’s debut Machine Code, UK punk festival stalwarts MC16 make a swift return with album two. Produced once again by the in-demand Dave Draper (Michael Monroe, The Wildhearts, Marc Valentine), the album’s title – We’re Gonna Need A Milkman – is typically cryptic: “Trouble on your doorstep? Need the police? Nah, we’re gonna need a milkman. The public trust in milkmen is high! (yet only 62 % for the police according to the recent YouGov poll). The Milkman’s early morning whistling is the soundtrack of a happy society.

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