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. 

Split Aura – “The Shy Dancer”

Country: US

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: This is a song about the insecurities that plague us, limit us, and keep us from connecting with other people.

Broke Royals – “Big Dream”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “Big Dream” explores the bittersweet journey of chasing your ambitions while calling out the corporate schemes that try to exploit your dreams.

TESHA – “Like A Man”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Like a man describes the rotten root of a patriarchal society, the fall into blindness, when you lose your power endlessly searching for more of it, when you lose your god killing in the name of it. It invites kindness, it invites sharing, it invites a feminine approach it invites compassion, it invites tenderness as a form of power.

Ridge Runners – “Whatever You Say”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Despite the song’s clear rocking roots, Rigg admits the lyrical direction came from an unexpected place. I was driving and Chris Isaak’s, Wicked Game came on the radio. It’s a very mournful, haunting song, referring to love as painful game to lose. This made me envision the inverse of that concept – the thrill and excitement that comes with love …the part that makes us want to “play” the game. The idea became a love song antithetical to Wicked Game, so I paired it with this exciting guitar riff I had, and the song just took off.”

The Stemmas – “Walking Around”

Country: US

Genre: Pop Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: This is the catchy debut single from new Los Angeles based collective, The Stemmas. “Walkin Around” is loud, fun, bright, post punk, mainstream pop-rock tune with vintage flair. Plenty of guitar sounds, big drums, Male/Female lead vocals, and a good old fashioned guitar solo. “It’s okay ay ay ay…”

Super City – “Hang Up”

Country: US

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: A production staple of their upcoming album “Midnight Room” (out October 20th via SofaBurn Records), “Hang Up” is about addiction to a toxic relationship, and the inability to end it. Ghostly harmonies, sparkling guitars, an infectious beat that keeps morphing the whole way through. Fascinating and futuristic guitar work that brings to mind Ennio Morricone and fuzzed-out Danny Gatton. There’s a staggering dynamic range and a big hook where the narrator’s conscience is urging the right course of action.

Marcus Lowry – “Time, Time, Time”

Country: Canada

Genre: Folk

Words From the Artist/PR: Time, Time, Time, the debut album from Lowry, is a collection of nine original songs that unfold like pages of a book, to reveal stories that speak to loss, unfulfilled dreams and the inevitable passage of time. In Lowry’s world of nautical dreamscapes and pastoral fables, the North-American folk tradition is underscored with the richness of chamber music, hints of impressionism and a touch of the avant-garde—all anchored by his vocals and acoustic guitar.

Ash Malloy – “Viv”

Country: Canada

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: The majority of the music for her newest release, “Viv,” was already written for a woman by that name. Ash had never met her but loved how her name looked so she kept it. Now she has a song and a tattoo on her body named after a woman she only wound up meeting a month ago. It’s a song about losing yourself in the summer and that feeling you get when you’ve drank a little too much and start looking at people a bit differently.

BLONE – “A I R”

Country: Brazil

Genre: Alt Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: “In the midst of chaos, this indie rock track captures life’s wild ride, our survival dance in the madness. We created this song while observing how little control we have over life’s events.”

The Planes – “Thrift Store”

Country: US

Genre: Indie Rock

Words From the Artist/PR: Loaded with infectious hooks, driving beats, and near-field nostalgia, Thrift Store is an instant indie pop classic. The lead single from The Planes’ new album, Dark Matter Recycling Co., Thrift Store explores themes of accepting change, making sacrifices, and (hopefully) finding happiness. Transitioning quickly from verse to catchy chorus, to concise, yet expressive, guitar solo and back again, this track is all thriller, no filler. Like the name implies, you definitely get bang for your buck.