MAYA DELILAH • Look At The State Of Me Now • 2024

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“‘Look At The State Of Me Now’ is about looking at yourself at the breaking point in a relationship,” says Maya. “There’s a big part of you that wants to stay but you also know you’d be crazy if you did. It’s about feeling conflicted as the other side of you wants to make it work. I’m sure so many people have felt this way just like myself. I always love writing in the time signature 6/8 as it feels so much more emotive to me, and as this song is about heartbreak it felt fitting.”

Tony Jay • Knife Is But A Dream • 2024

The songs, themselves, retain a skeletal elegance, a stark contrast to the swirling chaos that surrounds them. The final product evokes the image of a charcoal sketch, rendered with swift strokes and unwavering confidence, a fleeting moment of beauty captured for all time.

Knife Is But A Dream is a beautiful album of sonic escapades and lo-fi balladry, a mixture of ambient instrumentals and the JAMC with a hangover feeling of the sentimental and melancholy, and expressing their feelings into a lo-fi recording device. Another example how beautiful and rewarding for the heart and soul it can be to make and listen to music recorded in a home setting. An album to close one eyes to and drift off to a more relaxing and safe heavenly moment. - Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea (Monolith Cocktail)

Along with Flowertown, Cindy, and April Magazine, Tony Jay closes the circle of Bay Area bands that wander through the fogged end of the indie pop scene… [“The Darkest Corner”] is aloft on a bed of synth and hiss, giving proper ambience to Michael Ramos’s strums and soft delivery. A home-recorded gem that’s built to bridge the bad times, the new record. - Andy French (Raven Sings The Blues)

Jazmin Bean • Addict • 2024

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“One of the most exciting names in alternative music.” - DIY Magazine

“Fast becoming one of alt. music’s breakout stars.” - Kerrang!

“Well versed in the art of ‘very dramatic and cinematic energy.’” - PAPER Magazine

“Offers a glimpse of non-binary style through an individual lens." - Vogue

“Has captivated fans with their intricate makeup looks, eye-catching fashion

and grungy alt-pop songs.” - People

“Although I was struck by the visual of Jazmin Bean, it was their sound that had me absolutely captivated.” - Girl at the Rock Shows

Lea Thomas • We Must Be In Love • 2024

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"We Must Be In Love" is a love song. It could be a love song for anyone or anything but for me, it has become a love note to the cosmos, to this earth, to the places that shaped my life, and especially for the island of Maui in Hawai’i, where I grew up. I like to think that true love has a way of slowing down time so you can "let yourself be happy.”

Onsloow • Full Speed Anywhere Else • 2024

“Taxi” begins with the intriguing opening line: “Get into my car,” taking the listener on a catchy, energetic trip. You think the bridge is good? Just wait for the key change. “Taxi” has the infectiousness of Slow Pulp with the tumultuous edge of Tigers Jaw; it’s Momma’s “Speeding 72” if it was emo instead of grunge. - Stereogum

Bursting with character, bright hooks, and some devilish insidious cuts - Upset Magazine

Trondheim, Norway’s Onsloow is a fresh, well-crafted indie-rock band that creates rousing and dreamy power-pop sounds with nuances and nods to pop punk. Onsloow’s new, self-titled release finds the band in league with contemporaries like the Beths, Tigers Jaw, Girl in Red and Paramore; and even more veteran bands like Superchunk, Weezer and the Get Up Kids. - The Big Takeover

MOODY JOODY • VELVET CONNECTION • 2024

Moody Joody is a trio made up of Kayla Hall (vocals), Kaitie Forbes (vocals), Andrew Pacheco (producer). In 2020, the band shared their debut single "The Heat" and has steadily released a string of tracks since. As they continue to build their own sonic universe, the group embraces duality, unafraid to meet their emotions head-on and dissect the varied layers of the human experience using dynamic, dreamy production, sparkling instrumentation, soaring vocals and honest lyricism.

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Hippo Campus • Forget It • 2024

“Cathartic” Pitchfork

“Blissful indie rock” Rolling Stone

"Forward-thinking" NPR

"Band’s expertise in toeing the line between full-on alt-pop banger and plaintive ballad" Billboard

“Bouncy indie melodies and gigantic pop hooks” DIY

“Hippo Campus embrace sonic chaos” Dork

"Dancing shoes are a must at their live shows" NYLON

"One of the best bands in the United States" BBC Radio 1

Odetta Hartman • Good Socks • 2024

“The video for “Good Socks” was inspired by Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and serves as an authentic window into a very familiar day of my life. By fate stranger than fiction, I am raising my baby on the same cubic block that I grew up on, nestled in NYC's Lower East Side amongst an iconic cast of characters. We spend our days walking - searching for sprinklers, praying for naps and stumbling into synchronicity on every corner. Accompanied by director Rachel Brown, we strolled through historic landmarks of the East Village and my childhood, popping into postcards of a downtown life and collecting friendly smiles along the way.”

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Flower Face • Maniac • 2024

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"Maniac" is very tongue-in-cheek. I wrote it as this upbeat little indie pop song that contrasts the uncomfortable honesty of the lyrics. Like how sometimes you have to laugh so you don’t scream and cry. It’s me admitting a lot of unpleasant truths about myself, laying it all out on the table and saying yeah, I suck in a lot of ways, but I can acknowledge and accept that, which is not the case for a lot of people.

april june • baby​’​s out of luck again • 2024

For april june, a singer, songwriter, and producer who typically releases one song at a time, unveiling the "baby’s out of luck again" EP marks a significant achievement. "The last time I recorded something this long was 10 years ago," she reflects. "It's much easier, psychologically, to let go of a song that you've written, as opposed to an EP… This EP is very special to me. It just has more weight to it."

little bit • talk a blue streak • 2024

Los Angeles-based little bit, the project of Boston-raised Hannah Liuzzo (formerly of Lilith) will release their debut EP, talk a blue streak via Hit the North Records on September 20. Following tips at FLOOD Magazine and Post-Trash for the debut single, "lying to you", the talk a blue streak EP comes produced by Bradford Krieger who previously worked with Joyer on their acclaimed 2024 record, Night Songs, as well as Squirrel Flower, Horse Jumper of Love and Model/Acrtriz.

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"informed by both the cheeky pop of artists like Charli XCX, Avril Lavigne, and Michelle Branch, as well as indie luminaries like Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens."
– Stereogum

"The track feels like yet another postcard from the Pacific at sundown, with twanging guitar and barely discernible barroom piano complementing Liuzzo’s near-whispered vocals."
– FLOOD

"Bopping with pop charm and a soft melodic focus"
– Post-Trash

Susan O'Neill • Drive • 2024

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beabadoobee • Beaches • 2024

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Just a few days before the release of her third record This is How Tomorrow Moves, beabadoobee shared the record’s final single: “Beaches.” Bea dips back into the pure indie rock sound of her criminally underrated debut Fake it Flowers, detailing how her creativity thrives in the right environments (in this case, Rick Rubin’s Shangri La studio in Malibu). “Days blend to one whеn I’m on the right beaches / And the walls painted white, they tell me all the secrets / Don’t wait for the tide just to dip both your feet in,” she sings alongside a double-tracked melody of glockenspiel and driving guitars. Bea has fully come into her own on this record, and she wants you to know it. —LW

Wings of Desire • Some Old Place I Used To Know • 2024

“A bit like if Bruce Springsteen had a mid-’80s Jesus And Mary Chain phase” Stereogum

“Now Hear This” The Independent | "Wings Of Desire craft dazed pop jewels" CLASH

“Uplifting” DIY | “freefalling, expansive indie” DORK

The duo explain the themes around the new single - a caustic message belying the track’s downtempo elegance:

“Some Old Place I Used To Know explores the idea of an ever-changing cultural landscape. We have all come accustomed to think that we are constantly evolving but what if things weren’t actually getting better but worse. As we are being pushed towards the digitalisation of culture and as our creativity is increasingly undervalued and attention harvested. 

What is the cost on our collective sanity? 

One of the best acts of rebellion in this climate is to stare out of the fucking window, get lost in your own imagination for a few hours or speak to someone in the real here and now. And if none of those work for you try making something beautiful. You see you’re dangerous when you make something beautiful, something that could snap someone out of the illusion and light up their heart. That’s why they like to keep us ‘busy’.”

HORSEGIRL • Presented by NEW NOW • 2024

chicago phenoms horsegirl finally grace the new now stage! fresh off a summer tour with cindy and tv buddha, the band returned to chicago to be with friends and family. hear a taste of horsegirl new and old, plus a warm tribute to nora's cat ramona. we recorded this new now at the godstar megamax practice space in early july 2024. 

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sport meets sound 

world of pots and pans 

where'd you go? 

anti-glory 

live + ski 

ramona song 

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Clem Snide • Free • 2024

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It's like....
Falling asleep at the wheel 
only to be startled awake
right back at the hospital 
where you were born
bodies shed like goggles
back up off the pedals 
and surrender
to the pull
and finally...
break
Free.

Matt Costa • Explorations of Sight and Sound Volume 1 • 2024

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Acclaimed indie singer-songwriter Matt Costa's newest film project, Explorations of Sight and Sound, created in collaboration with Rivian + Roark, is out today. He directed and scored the documentary in Sardinia, while exploring the questions "How does the road inspire us to create?" and "What does cultural saturation do to influence the process and results?" 

The result was a series of four music videos with original tracks and scores that recount Matt’s experience and song inspiration in Sardinia with Roark’s ambassadors as they climbed, surfed, run and skateboarded across the Island.

"Explorations of Sight and Sound is a new type of show," Matt reflects, "focusing on a collection of 16mm footage that will be scored live. Traveling and filming has influenced my music and now it’s an immersive live show, highlighting Sardinia with a full performance showcasing my travel/adventure films from around the world.”

Sarah Mary Chadwick • Don't Like You Talking SMC Remix / Break Up, Break Up! • 2024

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Orville Peck & Beck • Death Valley High • 2024

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Orville Peck breaks the mold with his duets album Stampede, a sprawling collection of collaborations showcasing Peck’s unique ability to blend his distinct sound with a diverse array of voices including Willie Nelson, Elton John, Beck, and more.

Wishy • Just Like Sunday • 2024

Wishy shows their soft side on their newest single “Just Like Sunday," out today with a brand new music video. An acoustic and twangy dream-pop track that flirts with the frothy nostalgia of the early aughts, “Just Like Sunday” is the final single ahead of the band’s highly-anticipated debut LP Triple Seven. One of the more breezy tracks off the new record, the new track is a love song about yearning and letting go of your inhibitions, says Wishy's Nina Pitchkites.