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Orbit 17 – “Rainbows”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: This is a song about not blowing a second chance. If you get the opportunity to start over and be your true self, do so.

Of The Unknown – “Fatal”

Country: Canada

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Fatal captures a moment of internal collapse that precedes awareness and change. Built around restrained tension that escalates into a harder second half, the track focuses on realism rather than dramatization – documenting what it feels like to keep functioning inside constant noise and pressure until it becomes unlivable.

The Wheel Workers – “Fine Time”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “Fine Time” opens with a jarring tritone—dissonant, unstable, and unresolved—before detonating into a heavy, grunge-driven riff. Lyrically, it takes a biting, sarcastic look at war, exposing the gap between those who profit from it and those who are sent to fight it, all delivered with raw intensity and dark irony. The track is part of “Live from the Attic,” a live EP recorded in the band’s rehearsal space

Lost Velvet – “Burnt”

Country: UK

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Burnt is the second single from our debut album Dark Cells. Built around a steady, insistent bassline, it blends cinematic alternative rock with hazy, shoegaze-tinged textures and intertwined vocals. It captures the moment you realise something has run its course, not with drama, but with a quiet, inescapable clarity.

The Broken Vinyls – “Smalls”

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “Smalls” is an atmospheric track from start to finish, driven firstly by eccentric guitar lines to then a grooving bass and drums. Through our lyrics, we aimed to capture the heartbreak of unrequited love when mixed with an undying year that can’t be filled.

Lana Leone – “Paper Crowns”

Country: US

Genre: Shoegaze

Words From the Artist/PR: A meld of bending, swelling melodies and churning, bass-heavy rhythms, “Paper Cranes” is the latest single from Minneapolis shoegaze band Lana Leone. The track sways between sparse verses and wall-of-sound choruses, taking influence from My Bloody Valentine and Deftones and pushing into a sonic world that feels fresh and exciting. “Paper Cranes” evokes feelings of nostalgia with lyrics that reflect on distant memories and fleeting moments.

Glitched – “Someday”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: When the members of Tempe, Arizona’s Glitched are hard-pressed to describe their sound, which the press has hailed as everything from “a cross between the Byrds and Husker Du” to “sons of Petty and REM,” lead Vocalist Brian Coughlin offers up his own comedic analogy: “It’s like a big slice of American cheese.” A more lyrical description comes from one journalist who applauded the band’s ability to “generate sympathy for the messed-up menagerie of folks in their songs: beautiful losers always falling behind in the rent and short of their dreams.”

Joe Jennaman – “Throw Your Stones”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: On the surface “Throw Your Stones” is about being in a toxic, possibly even abusive relationship. While that’s definitely one accurate interpretation, I believe the concept also applies to any sort of vice. What I’m personally singing about varies from a partner, a substance, or any other range of addictions which could be haunting me at that moment. I hope whatever the cloud a listener may have over them, that they’ll find comfort in knowing they aren’t alone in their struggles to overcome dependency.