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. 

Black Water Complex – “Free Yourself”

Country: Germany

Genre: Alt Metal

Words From the Artist/PR: The song is about finding your own path to your inner goddess and get rid of the person others want you to be.

Chloe Starr – “Wasted Youth”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Opening with a catchy distorted guitar riff, “Wasted Youth” explodes into a thrilling, full tilt rock and roll anthem. It’s the sort of song you can’t help but scream along to. Lyrically, “Wasted Youth” also showcases Chloe at her most raw and vulnerable as she candidly opens up about the 3 months she spent at a wilderness treatment program when she was 16.

Dana Ave.  – “Feet Off The Fire”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: This is a high energy rock / alternative song that is perfect to listen to with the windows down speeding down the highway after a big win or bank heist sailing into the sunset. Think Tiger woods winning the masters on a 50 ft putt, Auburn beating Alabama on a field goal return

Gavin McLeod – “Things We Used To Do”

Country: Canada

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “Things We Used To Do” was one of the first songs that we wrote for the new album. It was a song that had existed for a long time in many different forms, but never really worked until we tried it in the studio. When my guitar player Patrick suggested a chord change, we all immediately felt like the code had been cracked, and we tracked the final version within a few takes. It was a real team effort getting this one across the finish line. Through all the many changes, the main riff that opens the song always remained from the conception of the song up until the final master.”

Purple Negative – “We Hope It’s a Son”

Country: Latvia

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: The song “We Hope It’s a Son” is an outrageous cry against stereotypes about the role of women in society – “I’m not a robot, I’m not a machine, I have my own body and a choice over it”.

Mannequin Hand – “Scatterbrain”

Country: New Zealand

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: This is the single of an EP Mannequin Hand has been working on for the past year in which each track explores a different form of psychosis or mental illness. Scatterbrain is about having unhealthy attachments to an obsessive level.

Det Metra – “Theme From The Place Beyond The Pines”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Cozy crooner alternative song about a bank robbery, and the power money has to change our lives dramatically. Inspired by the movie ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’

Mad Radio – “True Crime”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: If the spoken “disclaimer” sounds familiar, it’s because this vocalist also narrates true crime series for television. That said, this thunderous rocker would be perfectly at home as a Bond theme song, with its drop-tuned guitar, diminished cello stabs, and clever, hooky lyrics.

WAASH – “Time To Let Go”

Country: Canada

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Following the shoegaze slant of WAASH’s similarly self-titled 2023 EP, “Time to Let Go” is more of a synth-crystalized bop, which points to the broader electronic experimentation Bishop brought to his next LP. While it’s an aesthetically smooth stream, the single also stirs up Bishop’s thoughts on some interpersonal strife. “Sometimes it’s just easier to deal with life if you’re not fully aware of everything that’s going on,” Bishop suggests of scaling back from a particularly taxing tandem.

The Cle Alum – “I Am A Robot” (feat. Matthew Caws)

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Written during the pandemic as technology took over. Husband and wife Ian Lee and Sarah Sargent own a tour support business. When the pandemic shut down the live music industry, they began writing songs together. This song was a meditation on technology taking over our lives. When live music started back up, the two began recording at Kingsize Soundlabs in Chicago on tour stops. While on tour with Nada Surf, lean singer Matthew Caws heard the song and asked to add a beautiful harmony.