the rundown

Get your new music fix with these brand spankin’ new tunes from all over the world – you can also find these songs on our Limited Time Offer Spotify playlist.  

Baited – “Molotov”

Country: Canada

Genre: Punk

Words From the Artist: Molotov is a call to action. A face melting punk rock anthem sure to cause destruction in dorm rooms and dive bars alike. If you’ve ever felt fed up with the system you were born into then Molotov needs to be heard!

Color Palette – “Pacing Like A Lion”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: Pacing Like a Lion EP, a release from Washington, DC – based band Color Palette via Enroute Records, is an eclectic group of songs that straddles the lines between 2000s era indie rock x anthemic dreamgaze x alt rock. RIYL Bloc Party, M83, The Killers, CASTLEBEAT, Explosions in the Sky.

Dress Warm – “Fortune Teller”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: “Fortune Teller” is the first single from Dress Warm’s second EP Stepping Away. A fast-paced and raw sound that highlights the straightforward groove of Dress Warm, ‘Fortune Teller’ is an explosive single that can leave listeners discovering more after repeat listens.

Kingfisher – “Stand Back In”

Country: Sweden

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist: Magical reality, musically real. An indie rock band in the north but born south, forged by melody and ice. Julian, Nich and Affe. The Strokes meet RHCP; Bloc Party meet Muse. “Stand Back In” is the climax of four years of music, the summit of a journey. Written in 10 minutes, it is a guitar riff born 10 years ago distilled by a drum groove as old as humanity. The song was there, waiting for us, using us as vessels, expecting to be heard. As it will on March 15th when it will be exclusively played in the national radio station P4, in Uppsala, it’s hometown. It is the lament of a missing friend, lost in the echoes of life; a prayer that they may come back to us, stand next to us once again.

Dickerd N Sons – “Ants”

Country: Canada

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: Ants is a song which describes how the world revolves around political and religious powers. Sycophants will do whatever their masters tell them even if it is to their own detriment. Everyone is just looking to have someone validate their existence while the world crumbles around them. A little word play there as well where it could be thought of as “Aunts” instead of ants

Family Dinner – “Revenge Dress”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: Hailing from Long Beach, NY, the members of Family Dinner are almost as carefree as the beach town they reside in. The band create alternative rock that makes you want to dance, with lyrics that take some dark twists. Today they announce their signing to Other People Records (Modern Color, Ways Away) and share the empowering single “Revenge Dress.” It’s a breakup anthem, and with lines like “This pretty face is gonna raise some hell tonight” it’s hard not to get stuck in your head. The song rides from floaty to fierce, with chiming riffs and upbeat drums complementing Natalie O’Keeffe’s cool and collected vocals. The video for the song encapsulates the mood of the lyrics and can be viewed here now.

Heavenward – “Gasoline”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: Sometimes to create is a selfish cycle, and for Heavenward writing the upcoming album, Pyrophonics, was an outwardly therapeutic experience. Coming from the mind of Kamtin Mohager (The Chain Gang of 1974, ex-Teenage Wrist), Heavenward showcases noise, feeling, and aggression through words of destruction and reflection. The ten songs on the album blend alternative rock with moments of shoegaze and dark pop, focusing heavily on melody and arrangements. Lead single “Gasoline,” out today, pulls you right into Mohager’s thought process from the opening line “Can’t make sense of certain things inside my head” through lyrical themes of finding comfort in mortality. Shimmering guitars travel across lamenting vocals before building into an electrifying climax. It’s a fitting first glance into what Pyrophonics is all about.

The Weather Holds – “With The Heat, Move Slowly”

Country: Canada

Genre: Folk

Words From the Artist: The Weather Holds is the latest project and supergroup formed by Montreal-based producer and composer Devon Bate whose career is rife with secret contributions to contemporary Canadian music, theatre, and dance. As the producer behind JUNO Award and Polaris Prize winning albums for artists such as Jeremy Dutcher and Jean-Michel Blais, Devon has built friendships and relationships that have shaped his compositional voice. He partnered with artist Julia Milz to direct the music video for new single “With the Heat, Move Slowly” who “interpreted, and understood, the song so intimately.” The Weather Holds is fundamentally about recognizing those connections, bringing disparate worlds of Canadian indie and contemporary classical music together, grounded in prairie soil and nourished with a Montrealaise spirit of experimentation. Devon prefaces “With the Heat, Move Slowly,” advising that “if it feels like you have the ability to see into the future, and you don’t like what you see, sometimes it’s best just to stop looking – if we’re heading towards something bad, let’s head towards it slowly.”

Alma Mater – “Big Sideways”

Country: US

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist: “Big Sideways” features driving guitars, upbeat percussion and soaring melodies for an intoxicating listen. The single details the need to control the unbalanced outside world.

Dakota 66 – “Bubble”

Country: Ireland

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist: Accompanied by warm, delicate folk-rock rhythms and affectionate lyrics, “Bubble” is a radiant celebration of connections between people, bursting with gratefulness and memories of tender, delightful moments. True to its title, the track is bubbly, uplifting, and genuine as it unfolds in an earnest, euphoric declaration of friendly love. Tucking themselves into a comforting cocoon of kindness and affection, Dakota 66 praises the importance of moments in which we can find a home in a friend, and allow them to lead us back to our true selves. With lyrics like “Wrap me up in a bubble with all my books/wrap me up with my music and all my luck/cause I got you and you get me,” the band opens up about the need for a comforting space, a safe haven amongst the hardships of everyday life – a place for us to be ourselves, surrounded by the things and people we love.