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. 

Ida Mae – “American Cars”

Country: UK

Genre: Garage Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “’American Cars’ is a Bonnie and Clyde rock n’ roller. It’s about escaping the suburbs and the adrenaline fuelled moments of falling in love for the first time. Against the odds and against good advice. It’s the deep inhale and scream, discovering a new world outside of your upbringing.”

Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish – “Ring for My Baby”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “This song is a play on the age old joke that couples stop acting intimately once they get married. The inspiration for this came after the instrument tracks were done and I still didn’t have lyrics. I told the engineer after we tracked that day that I had to get home in a hurry because I was hoping to get laid. Arriving at the studio a few days later he asked if I had, and my reply was,”No, I didn’t, I married”. We had a good laugh about it, and I wrote the lyrics about the moment. It isn’t meant to be taken sincerely.”

Duster – “The Weed Supreme”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: The Numero Group announced the surprise release of Remote Echoes, a 14-track collection of unreleased tracks from the archives of Duster. The album dropped digitally last Friday, 29th September, the same day as the label released the 25th anniversary edition of the band’s debut album, Stratosphere. Culled from half a decade of home four-tracking, Remote Echoes is a hissy, crumbly, and ungrounded expression of Clay Parton and Canaan Amber’s ongoing Duster project. A mix of cassette only demos released under the banners Christmas Dust and On The Dodge, this 14 track album also includes a bevy of previously unissued stragglers. Duster’s unique blend of fuzzy guitars, bargain synths, muffled percussion, and hushed vocals anticipated chillwave, mumblecore, and corecore, elegantly illustrating the holy trinity of slacker vices: cigarettes, coffee, and the weed supreme.

The Blaze Velluto Collection – “Aligned”

Country: Canada

Genre: Folk Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “On a sunny day during my lazy, early twenties, I found myself working in landscaping just outside a busy shopping mall. Beautiful women flowed in and out, while I industriously dug holes to plant an array of colorful and diverse flowers and shrubs. After a while, it dawned on me that I was working way harder and carrying myself with an unnecessarily exaggerated posture, shoulders held high and a straight back, real straight. It struck me as rather foolish, ‘peacocks are for the petting zoo’! Three years ago as I was shovelling snow in my front yard – the idea for Aligned was born, a tribute to that memorable day that served as a turning point in my perspective.”

The Dwarves – “We Will Dare”

Country: US

Genre: Punk

Words From the Artist/PR: “The Dwarves have been getting cancelled since the 1980’s, so we wrote a 90’s pop punk song about it and made a video starring a female singer born in the 2000’s and a snowboarder from Jackass who’s on strike in 2023. What could possibly go wrong?”

William J Locker – “Between The Lines”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR:  My new rocker independently written, recorded and mixed in my home studio in Des Moines, IA This track is a dirty little rocker that spits out gibberish, mimicking potential lyrics from AI but comes full circle in the chorus hinting not everything is as it seems.

Imperial April – “Sunlight”

Country: New Zealand

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Fuzzed-out bass, solid drums and crunchy guitars surround the band’s signature melodic vocals in this catchy, feel-good song which has been a crowd favourite at live shows and festival appearances. Lyrically, Sunlight explores the tension between doubt, perseverance and the struggle to get out of bed each day and keep pushing toward a seemingly hopeless goal. Reflecting this, the accompanying video depicts guitar-wielding vocalist Victoria Knopp getting lost in the quake-ravaged Red Zone of the band’s hometown of Ōtautahi | Christchurch.

23 and Beyond The Infinite – “Back on the Road to the Next World”

Country: Italy

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Back on the road to the next world is the emblematic title of the new release that follows the latest album Lumen del Mundo. A creative flow that originates from a province that is too tight and proceeds unstoppably like an avalanche on its way. Acid post-punk grooves, guitars that are sometimes surf and sometimes rougher, an explosive garage rock energy and dynamics full of a strong emotionality are the main ingredients of the band’s sound, enhanced by the adrenaline-filled impact of their live performances.

Hollowed Sky – “Hookworm”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: A groove-oriented, lyrically dense, heavy rock song. Lyrically, it serves as a warning to those dudes out there who can’t take “no” for an answer.

Head With Wings – “Galaxy”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Galaxy is the main protagonist of our new album, Without Intervention. In the music video, she’s a popular variety streamer that streams on a fictional platform called UWATCH. She signs a contract with The Dream Broker Group (a somewhat nefarious talent agency) after hitting 1 million subscribers and while the video focuses on Galaxy’s ascension, we also witness the deterioration of an obsessed fan, whose addiction to her content takes over every aspect of his life