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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. 

San Salinas – “Hold On”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “Hold On” is about returning to passion and fighting to sustain it in life; as well as a fear of returning to a life void of it. Before I wasn’t exactly sure why I was a musical artist; whether it was fame, adventure, money, or music. But I know why I’m making it now: because I have an undying passion for it, and continuing to pursue that dream is worth whatever it takes. And that seemed like something worth writing a song about. I hope you enjoy it.

Flowtone – “Eats Me Alive”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: From their soon-to-release debut album, Flowtone’s single eerily soothes then dives head first into rock choruses. Suppressant emotion, that leaky feeling in your gut that tells you to stop and listen. ‘Eats me alive’ faces these subconscious thoughts and does so with the momentum of a dance track.

Ness Nost – “Overtime”

Country: Canada

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: The back and forth conversation that goes on in a woman’s mind living in this day and age trying to make it as an artist in the world.

Spider – “Tabula Rasa”

Country: US

Genre: Punk

Words From the Artist/PR: Fiercely independent DIY Long Beach, California, punk collective Spider announce release of their new single titled “Tabula Rasa.” Spider’s musical DNA is a mix of dark, surfy grit and eerie raw power rock. “Tabula Rasa” is a ferocious blast of urgent existential punk rock and a lexicon vortex of metaphor fueled vocals.

DOGDAD – “Ouroboros”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR:  Ouroboros is a reflection on how my actions affect others, and how my mental health issues can’t be an excuse for how I’ve treated people. It is the final single from my EP Swan Dive Pity Part dropping in December

loserbirds – “SNACK”

Country: Canada

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: It’s about the ebbing and flowing of confidence and self-doubt.

Baby Jey – “I Just Can’t Stop”

Country: Canada

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Crop Circles includes “I Can’t Just Stop,” a song which captures a relationship falling apart during a cold Edmonton winter, as Witten reflects on an inability to let go of deeply felt emotions. “Everyone knows that the pandemic created a lot of stress…and that stress either drew people closer together, or else did the opposite and exacerbated relational fault lines,” Witten explains. The jaunty pop number belies its heartful and frustrated lyrics: “When I called you it was freezing cold out and when I told you I still love you, you hung up. I could see my breath though–that’s when I knew that my love was just steam.”

Ceci Noir – “Away”

Country: Sweden

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “I wanted to create something that pays tribute to the grunge era while still appealing to today’s audience and I’m delighted with how the song has been received so far”

KNASH – “Problems”

Country: Sweden

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: On the single, KNASH delivers a sound based on a combination of powerful vocals, distorted guitars, organ and steady drums, creating an explosive sound palette that spans genres such as pop, rock, punk and soul.

The Fourth Wall – “Never A Part”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR:  “I began to have questions about what the family connection really means,” Agustin says of his relationship with his grandmother. “What does it mean to ‘love’ a person merely because of their biological ties, without knowledge of the person’s aspirations, personality, style of humor, moral concerns?” The emotion is palpable in the music, in the acceptance of this almost divine mystery of unconditional love: “Won’t you hold me close / so I can rest assured / That there’s no words to say / that undoes all the hurt / or time enough to learn / why my love for you returns.” Still, in the song’s uneasy refrain, a shadow blooms within the irreconcilable distance that exists between grandmother and grandson, separated by time, language, and culture: the deep wells of love and loss that underlie the immigrant experience. “We’ll never be a part of whatever they are.”