The dystopian portrait of modern life that’s come quickly is grim, and held up to the Los Angeles experimental noise-pop band’s mirror, we hear how numb to it all we’ve become.

Certainly, Spiral XP aren’t here to pull the wool over your eyes, but the way they pull static and pop toward the well of a groove is something to believe in…

A pretty good flip of the switch in the song title department from the maximum rock ‘n roller that actually sounds like a beautiful blast of distortion-crisped guitar-pop.

It hurts to get burnt, but hell hath the burn of Slayyyter’s heartbreak fury on the latest single from ‘wor$t man in america’.

A brash dance nation that embraces the other side of the tracks, these are the 5 best songs of the ‘WOR$T’ from the electro-pop star’s breakthrough album.

In the shadows of capitalistic evangelism, the Philly-based songwriter makes do with the hand she’s been dealt to start anew in her own way.

The NYC-based band of friends are discovering a new third place by reimagining shoegaze’s niche classics through a fresh set of ears and energy on their debut album ‘Umbrella’.

On the lead single off the Philly experimental rockers’ new album, ‘What Is Truth?’, the room to envelope you into a dramatic air assembling is vast — and salved by a shatte…

The post-shoegaze indie rocks explore the dark and search for the comforts of another warm voice on the latest single off ‘Audition Tape’

On the latest preview off ‘Iconoclast HaHa’, the San Francisco alternative swervers escape gravity with no fixed destination in mind beyond a far out soft blast.

Wicked fun hardcore born out of pure intentions, if you accept HAYWIRE’s major label debut at face value for what it is, you’ve just found yourself the scene’s most earnest album …

Take the lead single off the Los Angeles hardcore punks’ sophomore LP, ‘Suburban Decay’, as a threat to a glass half full point-of-view in spite of everything.

Recommended highlights from the artsier sides of punk with the latest albums by Boy Harsher, Downtown Boys, and Sweeping Promises.

Call it through being cool, aside from the weather with the latest from the Boston DIY rockers’ debut album, ‘Real Life’.

The sound of what every child of the ’90s and ’00s came to know in defining their youth, now fucking up their future from the Boston underground rockers’ return album, ‘Secr…

What an ugly thing to have blossom on you when would have preferred nothing at all on this quarrelsome preview from the St. Louis noise-pop band’s new album.

The world is no longer sleeping on the fact that Tinashe is a force in the field, and these five songs are the best of them to prove why she’s 2026’s ‘Popstar’ to top.

The San Francisco-based experimental pop songwriter discovers moments to exhale and reflection through the hyperspeed on her sophomore LP, ‘Twin Star Fantasy’.

The answer to Sharp Pins’ pining question is all in the sound on this kaleidoscopically swooning preview from his new EP ‘Electric My Icebox’.

Scraping the surface of the New England punk trio’s ‘Modernism’ with their signature tone, a taste for the Blood Brothers, and their undying vintage pop horror influence.

Even if there’s nothing on the other side, at least Lockslip will have done their best in carrying out Judgement Day in the absence of on the latest preview from ‘The Conversation&#8217…

There is nothing to fear but NAILS itself on the return single from the seminal Oxnard heavy hardcore band.

This Is Lorelei… now, as Nate Amos turns his attention fully toward a lived-in, rustic alt-country tunefulness with its cracks smoothed over in the studio on his sophomore LP and Matador debu…

If you love it, set it so, but in Lily Konigsberg’s case, she’s at her best she just hers and hers alone on her new single.

The Los Angeles neo-shoegazers’ adoration to the classic alternative isn’t imitation — it’s homage while breaking through to the future.

The multi-faceted indie rockers’ 6th album is their most extraterrestrial affair yet — one in which their world of beyondness and that which they inhabit collide through yet another sea…

Blurring the moment in past reflection, the dreamy NYC rockers reveal how time is always a force of change with the final preview from ‘Umbrella’.

Even if the machine is wired all wrong these days, Anxious’ game is running on pure intention as they mature into alt-rock-riffed post-hardcore territory on their latest single.

Rarely do covers sound like a song’s origin story, but this standout by the post-hardcore noisemakers from ‘Bleeds Deluxe’ breaks that mold.

The second heater from the Boston hardcore punk band’s new album ‘I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye’ doubles down on anthems to rage away the pain to.

Angus Andrew takes an axe to the ridiculousness of American bureaucracy on the lead single off the art-rockers’ 10th studio album, ‘A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans’.

The fifth album from the Cinci avant-punk collective is a double LP sonic exploration of pushing everything that was once known to a new mysterious limit.

The chaotic view surrounding the Seattle loud pop-rockers is a thing of dream, with that howling of the mind being something you want to sink your head into on the title track off their new EP, &#8…

Through new age anxieties, Dummy are asking the right questions in whether broadening possibility in our world may somehow end up building new walls within it.

The standout indie-pop rockers are really in the moment in approaching the many, many sides of the alternative spectrum on the latest from ‘Nature’s Wish’.

Justin K. Broadrick and B.C. Green render the deterioration of their flesh and sound through the permanence of recording it, though nothing can guarantee escaping the hands the time on the opener t…

The lead single off the Philly experimental hardcore-punk band’s new album, ‘NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT’, is a frenetic rager firing on all anxiety and rabbit hole mythos when it…

The second EP from the Los Angeles trio doubles up on their defense artillery of hardcore industrial rave music and taps into survival instincts to thwart the ongoing swan dive of humanity by a sys…

On the lead single from ‘Audition Tape’, the Philly band puts faith behind the origins of ’90s indie rock’s noisier collisions and all of those artists’ dooming shrugs…

Nate Amos’ knack for the uncanny hook has made his coronation as one of the best doing it right now with a six-string and pen unsurprising, but long overdue.

The return of the beloved emo rockers on their first new single in 8 years is as good feeling, even if everything around you seems like it’s being swallowed into a void.

With the lead single off their new album, ‘an exchange of information’, the Long Island indie-emo rockers know their own strengths better than the rest.

The noisy Austin post-hardcore rockers’ delicate dance around the drain pipe is critical to treading rough waters.

On the latest from ‘GET MEAN’, the Northampton duo peers into a season of light and mourns the energy it brought you while still feeling it in your veins.

Post-shoegaze, cloud rap, Satanism, and ballin’ through the vapors of the Los Angeles band’s edgy first look off their self-titled debut.

Whether you want to call it a flex on who fucks with them nowadays or a representation of their impact in moving hardcore across the culture, these five artist’s versions best reshape TURNSTI…

Intrusive thoughts keep the St. Louis experimental noise-pop rockers fighting up at night on the lead single from their new album, ‘I wanted to be there’.

In short, it’s a Dinosaur Jr. album. And that’s not something to take for granted.

The latest single from the punked up DIY rock ‘n roller plugs into a mind-melt of scuzzy guitar currents and a bleak existential rabbit hole while making every moment count.

In this instance, the pale horse is a lo-fi rock shaman ushering in the latest highlight from the Cincinnati psych punk collective’s new double LP, ‘I Lost My Way For Centuries’.