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.  

The Honour – “Monster”

Country: Canada

Genre: Rock

Words From the Artist: Monster is a hard hitting rock song from Sudbury, ON, Canada’s “The Honour”. The song is about a monster, literally or figuratively, behind your back and what you need to do to rid yourself of it.

Higher Selves Playdate – “Cafe Baudrillard”

Country: US

Genre: Pop Rock

Words From the Artist: higher selves playdate is comprised of artist, professor and curator Jessica Kallista and artist and multi-instrumentalist Steve Fitzpatrick. Raised on and dedicated to music that emerges from and responds to visual art and art criticism—ranging from The Art of Noise to ESG to Talking Heads to Grace Jones to Tubeway Army to The B-52s and Yoko Ono—higher selves playdate believes in play as a political act, and orient towards curiosity-based joy as the end result. This new single, Café Baudrillard, responds with the most serious playfulness to the thoughts of philosopher/critic Jean Baudrillard, who suggested—as we are experiencing—that the world drifts further and further from reality and towards evolving stages of simulacra, with each stage correlating decreasingly to even the idea of reality.

Los Gondos – “Violence”

Country: US

Genre: Garage Rock

Words From the Artist: This is the first single from our upcoming self titled album. Recorded live to half inch tape, we aim to capture the spirit of raw, untamed, analog recorded punk music.

Bayline – “Trophy Heads”

Country: Netherlands

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: Trophy Heads is a song about the ongoing trophy hunting. Written through the mind of an animal that is telling the hunter what he thinks about the fact that he is being used for people to get high esteem, while pretending to care about the animals they kill. If this doesn’t stop… Soon they will all be gone.

Sloome – “Wonderful Nice”

Country: US

Genre: Shoegaze

Words From the Artist:  Wonderful Nice, the first single and title track to Sloome’s forthcoming EP is a song that asks one of life’s long unanswered questions—what is it like when you die? For a song standing knee deep in a type of morbidity, the song is strangely positive and playful in it’s sonic approach, typical of the band’s somewhat subtle strangeness. The band is one of the CA central valley’s premiere shoegaze projects—their fans and we will be so hyped to get this one some buzz.

The Roadside Bandits Project – “NOTHiNG”

Country: UK

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: With Gang of Four’s John Sterry on vocals (and co-writer of the track), NOTHiNG, with its dark and atmospheric opening verse, tells a story of need, asking for help and the resultant stress and mental health issues that can arise from such a situation. “When I said I had nothing, are you gonna catch me when I fall” sings Sterry as the group’s main-man, London based Spanish Canarian Santi Arribas creates a blues infused sonic landscape through his tastefully understated guitar playing. Arribas explains his inspiration behind the track as follows: “I wrote it in a minor blues format to establish a sad and soulful tone over which John & I laid the lyrics. It’s about the cost of living crisis and plays off the UK Prime Minister’s comment about the country needing more people to learn maths”

The Tuesday Nighters – “Scream + Shout”

Country: Canada

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist: The Tuesday Nighters are a Canadian rock ‘n roll band with a spirit found on the dance floors of downtown Toronto, and a soul in the small towns and countryside of Northern Ontario. Sometimes when things get you down, you just want to “Scream + Shout” and get back on top. Their motivating new song has no shortage of grit and empowering riffs.

A Lens To The Sun – “Everything I Do”

Country: US

Genre: Prog Rock

Words From the Artist: The world felt like it stood still for a while. Days were just fading into each other and there was an unusual freedom that was hiding in the cage I felt I was in. Now the door is open and many of us don’t want to come out. This song is about this experience.

Family Worship Center – “The South”

Country: US

Genre: Garage Rock

Words From the Artist: “It is an anthem about the South, trying to celebrate the artistic contribution from the music that has been coming out of that part of the country for years while also reflecting on relationships with people in my past, family and friends where I cared about them as individuals but did not always agree with their point of views,” Krissberg says. The song is a compassionate critique with layered-meaning verses such as: Those city lights/And those southern nights/Well those city folk/Don’t give a good goddamn/I don’t need/None of your gypsum weed/Give me that ecstasy/take me as I am. “The sentiment here is like waking up to find out your mom is part of a rival cult—you still love her, but you’re like ‘oh mom!,’” Krissberg says with a good-natured laugh.

Rotundos – “See Thru”

Country: US

Genre: Post-Punk

Words From the Artist: “See Thru was written using the exquisite corpse writing technique. Each member wrote 1 line of words, then folded the paper until we had enough for a song. It just so happens that when the paper was unfolded, See Thru was on the other side. The composition of the chords and beats was made by jamming it during practice.”