“'DIY & The Diaspora' is a compilation of AAPI bands to highlight and celebrate bands in the community with AAPI representation”
Cranking the alternative rock dial to eleven: I Ya Toyah's Closer reimagines Nine Inch Nails' iconic track as a haunting meditation on validation and digital identity, fusing industrial rock with dark electronic textures and cinematic intensity. Coma Beach's Passion/Bliss delivers a five-track fever dream straddling punk abrasion and post-punk hallucination, steeped in Beckett and Schopenhauer. Rural France's SLOTHS is their jangliest, most baroque album yet — organs, horns, mellotron and Silver Jews-esque Americana celebrating "the absurdities of getting older" while honoring their "Pavement playing Teenage Fanclub" mission statement. Publicity Department's S. Michael Brook And The Steam-Powered Trains channels the Raspberries through 90s alt-rock sensibilities — crunchy guitars, two-part harmonies, and one primal scream cutting through the jollities.
Alternative Rock releases
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““Mind My Mind” blends the melodic warmth of Nada Surf, the raw energy of Dinosaur Jr., and the groove-driven heaviness of Queens of the Stone Age into a dynamic alt-rock journey of self-doubt and r...”
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“jangly, indie tune inspired by midweek nights out.”