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Ratboys have shared the title track from their forthcoming album, The Window, out August 25th on Topshelf Records. Listen to it below.

While the previous single “It’s Alive!” was a bit of a sad track, “The Window” is a love song that starts with acoustic tenderness before building into a Midwest indie rock romance. Through its lyrics, the band appears to use a window as a metaphor for finding what your heart needs. “I saw you through the window,” Julia Steiner sings, “We locked eyes and the window/ Was open, felt the wind blow/ I saw you through it.”

The accompanying music video depicts the lyrics perfectly, with vignettes of young adoration in grassy meadows, fairs, and festivals through a hazy, washed-out filter. Watch the John TerEick-directed clip below.

Ratboys are headed on a supporting tour starting this August, kicking off in their hometown of Chicago. Check out the list of dates here, and find tickets over at StubHub.

Pre-orders for The Window are ongoing. It also features “Black Earth, WI,” one of the best songs of 2023 to date, and follows Ratboys’ 2021 album Happy Birthday, Ratboy.

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What new releases are you guys most excited about? I'll start with a handful of new albums I plan to check out.

Grian Chatten - Chaos for the Fly

Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me

Angelo de Augustine - Toil and Trouble

bdrmm - I Don't Know

The Japanese House - In the End It Always Does

Brigid Mae Power - Dream From The Deep Well

Divide and Dissolve - Systemic

Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan Join Forces as Mac Krol, Share New Song “For Some Other Reason” By Kat Ramkumar

Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan Join Forces as Mac Krol, Share New Song “For Some Other Reason” Seven-Inch Record “For Some Other Reason” b/w “Fair Warning” and “What Would You Say?” Due Out July 28 via Merge

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Mike Krol and Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan have joined forces as Mac Krol and shared a new song, “For Some Other Reason.” It is the A-side to new seven-inch single due out July 28 via Merge. The 7-inch will also feature the songs “Fair Warning” and “What Would You Say?”

The collaboration began in 2015 when Krol and his bandmates had a recording session at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone after recording Turkey. Their end product was “a handful of riffs and ideas.”

Krol says in a press release: “The plan was to take the rough mixes home and write lyrics to record them later. However, once I got home and listened to the songs, I quickly realized that most of them were in the wrong key for my voice. So I filed them away to deal with later, and eventually lost interest.” After unearthing the recordings during the pandemic, Krol emailed them over to McCaughan. “To my surprise,” he says, “they sounded better than I remembered, but still didn’t work with my voice. I emailed Mac the tracks and said if he was bored in quarantine, maybe he could write some words to sing on top of my instrumentals and possibly give them a second life. He said he hated writing lyrics and politely declined. A few days later, three songs showed up with completed lyrics and iconic Mac McCaughan singing and shredding all over them. I was blown away!”

“Without Mac,” Krol says, “these songs would still be discarded instrumentals, so I’m very thankful that he brought them across the finish line so they can finally be heard!”

Krol’s last album was 2019’s Power Chords. Check out our review of it on our website.

McCaughan is about to embark on a tour with Superchunk. Check out the dates below.

Superchunk Tour Dates:

Jul 08 Chicago, IL – Square Roots Festival Jul 09 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall Sep 08 Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall* Sep 09 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar* Sep 10 Ardmore, PA – Ardmore Music Hall* Sep 12 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground* Sep 13 Portland, ME – SPACE Gallery* Sep 14 Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom* Sep 15 Woodstock, NY – Colony* Sep 16 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom* Oct 11 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle Oct 12 Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre Oct 14 Durham, NC – That Music Fest Nov 02 Berlin, DE – Lido Nov 03 Bielefeld, DE – Forum Nov 04 Schorndorf, DE – Manufaktur Nov 05 Bologna, IT – Improved Sequence Fest Nov 06 Zurich, CH – El Lokal Nov 09 London, UK – Bush Hall Nov 10 Bristol, UK – Strange Brew Nov 11 Leeds, UK – The Brudenell Social Club Nov 12 Manchester, UK – Night & Day Nov 13 Brighton, UK – Concorde 2 Nov 15 Haarlem, NL – Patronaat

*w/ Cable Ties

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Working in an expanded sense of space, Jimmy LaValle, the creative force behind The Album Leaf, mined his extensive and ever evolving library of musical sessions to construct the 12 tracks that would become The Album Leaf’s seventh studio album.

While Future Falling contains some of the sweeping cinematic soundscapes, glitchy electronics, and classical ambient tendencies the band is known for, it is also a much more sophisticated affair. Nimble pop motifs flow through a conduit of ethereal, clever dreamscapes floating atop delicately pulsating rhythms, polished with radiant waves of fluid synth washes amid crystalline pure production.

Infusing assorted moods ranging from soothing to brooding to the simply sublime, LaValle is especially adept at adding quirky little percussive sounds and pulsating bass lines that offer a counterbalance to the majestic harmonies and give the tracks depth, often employing airy electronics that provide a multi-layered and textural edge.

“Dust Collects” is the most recognizably Album Leaf song on the album but it’s evident that the focus is on exploring new sounds. In an effort to integrate fresh external perspectives, songs “Afterglow” and “Near” (featuring Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Kimbra and Natasha Khan aka Bat For Lashes, respectively), veer off target as they include the misplaced use of Auto-Tune and venture into pretty, new age territory. But these minor inconsistencies can be overlooked since the bulk of Future Falling’s atmospheric melodies are engaging and crafty and skillfully executed with meditative and melancholic flair. (www.thealbumleaf.com)

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In September, Speedy Ortiz are set to release a new album, Rabbit Rabbit, their first proper full-length since 2018’s Twerp Verse. We’ve heard early singles “Scabs” and “You S02.” Today, Speedy are sharing another album track called “Plus One.” It comes with a video directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg.

Here’s Sadie Dupuis on “Plus One”:

I love touring, but the workaholism it encourages has been a convenient way to repress my feelings. In the pandemic, I found myself ruminating on my estrangement from an abusive family member. I’ve used my songwriting to process other experiences of violence, but had not broached these memories until Rabbit Rabbit. Being able to work on old trauma in therapy and in my writing has helped my boundaries elsewhere, and taught me to move on from exploitative relationships.

That’s what “Plus One” is about, and it came out pretty quickly as a sad acoustic waltz. I was sitting on the floor of an empty living room, mid-move, and the bare surroundings added a liminal starkness, though some of the imagery is inspired by scenes from West Philly that summer. When I went back to do pre-production, Texan post-hardcore was in my head, so I tried to channel At the Drive-In and Trail of Dead, bands that inspired me as a teen.

We made the video with director Dylan Mars Greenberg, whose campiness and B-movie expertise was a perfect fit for the band’s also very campy videography. We’ve done a ton of horror homages but had never paid tribute to an old school monster movie. Dylan’s pet bunny Voodoo was a perfect Godzilla-sized star—a cuddly rabbit who’s mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

Listen and watch below.

Jenny Owen Youngs has kept busy over the past decade: She became a popular podcast host, she co-wrote some big pop songs, she was part of a band called L.A. Exes, and she’s put out some material of her own along the way, including an EP and, just this past spring, an ambient album.

But today she’s announcing her first full-length album since 2012’s An Unwavering Band Of Light. It’s called Avalanche and it’ll be out in September. It was produced by Josh Kaufman and features contributions from S. Carey, the Antlers’ Peter Silberman, Christian Lee Hutson, and the Walkmen’s Matt Barrick. Today, she’s sharing the album’s title track, which was co-written with Madi Diaz.

“An avalanche is an extreme force, it can cause great harm, and when it’s over, you can be certain things will be different than they were before,” Youngs said in a statement. “When it came time to name the album, this song leapt forward as the title track, because the unifying theme of this body of songs, to me, is the idea of moving from destruction to restoration, traveling through pain to possibility.”

Listen below, and check out a live performance video with Silberman.

TRACKLIST: 01 “Avalanche” 02 “Knife Went In” 03 “Goldenrod” 04 “Everglades” 05 “Bury Me Slowly” 06 “Next Time Around” 07 “It’s Later Than You Think” 08 “Salt” 09 “Set It On Fire” 10 “Now Comes The Mystery”

Avalanche is out 9/22 via Yep Roc Records.

Art Feynman, the moniker of Here We Go Magic frontman Luke Temple, has announced the release of his new album, Be Good The Crazy Boys, and shared its lead single, “All I Can Do.” Be Good The Crazy Boys is due out November 10 via Western Vinyl. Listen to the new song below followed by the upcoming album’s tracklist and cover artwork.

Feynman branches out with Be Good The Crazy Boys, experimenting with shimmering synths and vivid sonic landscapes. Of “All I Can Do,” he says in a press release: “It’s kind of about the butterfly effect we have on our own lives. What seems like a mistake in the past or present may inform some kind of success in the future. We are moved through life by much more than we are consciously aware of and most often only through making the mistake and suffering the consequence can the unconscious become conscious. Hence hindsight is always 20/20.”

The first two Feynman records were crafted in a rural part of Northern California, but Temple relocated to LA with a live in-studio full band to make Be Good The Crazy Boys. He drew inspiration from records such as Grace Jones’ Private Life, Lizzy Mercier Descolux’s Mambo Nassau, and Talking Heads’ Remain in Light.

“To me,” Temple says, “there was a lot of energy that needed to be released as the result of living in isolation for six years. It also seems to speak to a general anxiety we’re all holding, but it’s expressed in a cathartic way.”

In 2020, Temple shared his second studio album as Art Feynman titled, Half Price at 3:30.

Read our COVID-19 Quarantine Check-In interview with Temple.

Be Good The Crazy Boys Tracklist:

1. Early Signs of Rhythm
2. In CD
3. Therapy at 3pm
4. All I Can Do
5. He Dances Light
6. PASSED OVER
7. Chasing My Life
8. Desperately Free
9. I Do

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Over the course of nearly eight minutes, Mars Rodriguez leads you by the whisps of her ethereal voice on a transcendent voyage into the depths of her enigmatic and ferociously anthemic music.

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Mars Rodriguez has shared a new single and video with the release of “Walk Through This,” a dizzyingly gripping sprawl of potent electro-punk. The project is the brainchild of Nicaraguan-American Maria Alejandra Rodriguez Serrano, a DIY producer, visual artist, and a one-person band who excels at creating long-form and immersive soundscapes. Not to mention the hypnotically mind-bending videos that they end up soundtracking. It’s also the second song she has unveiled this year as she gears up for the arrival of their upcoming record Mañana Nobody Knows. Ad

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With its unbridled sonics “Walk Through This” functions as a frayed portal into a whole new dimension of ecstatic sound. Over the course of nearly eight minutes, Mars Rodriguez leads you by the wisps of her ethereal voice on a transcendent voyage into the depths of her enigmatic and ferociously anthemic music. One that is at first defined by the raging tumult of industrial electronica and volcanic riffs.

“We keep rising to overcome,” Rodriguez howls defiantly through the virulent crashes. “We keep dancing to the drums / Melting in the sun.” As the chorus erupts one final time the track starts to morph into a pyroclastic flow of irresistibly searing drum and bass that briefly warps itself into this strident electronica. Ad

The video for “Walk Through This” was created by Rodriguez as well and offers some truly eerie but enthralling visuals to go along with the experimental track. Flashing between glitchy transmissions of a close-up shot of an eyeball projected onto a television set, a group of ghostly figures, and a vibrantly haunting sunset.

Rodriguez has been releasing music since 2018 under her solo project, bringing together elements of electronic music, noise pop, and post-punk in the music that she writes, records, engineers, and produces herself. If you enjoyed her latest offering you need should absolutely plunge into the spellbinding universes of previous singles “Todo Tiempo Futuro fue Mejor” and “FrenesÍ.” artist to watch in 2023

Visit Mars Rodriguez on their Bandcamp and Instagram to stay updated on new releases and tour announcements.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/652492

Here’s our latest-greatest — Greatest Hits … This Week (Vol. 263) — a mix of what’s been rattling around in our heads here at Buzz Bands LA. Included arefresh tracks from Cold War Kids, Donna Missal, Allah-Las, Broken Baby, Dani Mack, Isaac Watters, Gal Pal, the Record Company, Trousdale, Velvet Starlings, Jess Kallen, Junior Mesa, Sofia Wolfson, HUNNY, Windser and more, all arranged to bring you in for a most interesting landing for Jonathan Wilson’s jam at the end.

Get started here, find info on the tracks/artists below the player and find our past playlists on our Spotify profile.

Dani Mack, “Everyone’s Watching” Allah-Las, “The Stuff” Sofia Wolfson, “From Up Here” The Holy Knives, “Keep on Lyin’” Broken Baby, “Beautiful Voices” The Record Company, “Talk to Me” Trousdale, “Point Your Finger” Windser, “Get Lost” Isaac Watters, “Coconut in the Street” Jess Kallen, “Exotherm” Octavio F.G., “Keep on Drivin” Kath Myers, “Come Through” Gal Pal, “Pleasures” HaHa, “Only Gets Better” Boyish, “Kill Your Pain” (with King Princess) Current Joys, “LOVE + POP” (feat. Your Angel) Donna Missal, “Move Me” Junior Mesa, “Can I Trust You” Cold War Kids, “Double Life” M.A.G.S., “Destroyer” Velvet Starlings, “Bullfight” The Dollyrots, “Missing You (I Can’t Wait)” HUNNY, “Big Star” Sneakpeek, “Game Face” PRETTY., “Hillside” Tessa Violet, “My God!” Fellow Robot, “Rabbit” Jonathan Wilson, “Charlie Parker”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/617750

TOMI, “If You Tried” Cary Brothers, “Back to the Start” Dani Mack, “Everybody’s Watching” Allah-Las, “The Stuff” Broken Baby, “Beautiful Voices” The Record Company, “Talk to Me” Trousdale, “Point Your Finger” Yoke Lore, “Shake” The Pretty Flowers, “Hit Nothing” M.A.G.S., “Destroyer” Irontom, “Common Chaos” Windser, “Get Lost” Bethany Cosentino, “Easy” Jerry Paper, “Just Say Play” Blondfire, “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”

The second single from London-based duo Quenta, “The Two of Us” grips with a heady hip-hop and art-pop fusion, reminiscent of Demon Days-era Gorillaz. Described as “a journey into the realms of relationships, lovers or friends,” “The Two of Us” meshes hip-hop rhythms with dark brass components. The vocals emit a range of charisma and personality, practically laughing with menacing appeal upon the “it’s just the two of us,” beginnings.

An ominous swell past the one-minute mark excels into a bouncier piano-forward pull, as a mellower vocal disposition emerges alongside. The rise from hip-hop mystique into smooth-flowing pop and “game over!” vocal snippet makes for a compelling sound, reflecting the project’s eclectic and creatively melodic sound — even if it’s at time unsettling. “The Two of Us” is a creative success from Quenta.

Quenta also has an upcoming full-length on the way.

I am glad to see more activity here! I think there's enough to warrant a Banner and Icon contest.

Rules:

1. Must be indie music related
2. Must not be created by an ai tool.
3. While finding something official by an indie band and/or something from a stock image website similar to unsplash is okay, I would prefer if you used those as a base for a photo edit, rather than submitting them plain.
4. Don't reuse anything from reddit's indieheads community. This is to emphasize that it isn't a replacement to r/indieheads per-say, but a brand new indie community (that will probably have some crossover in members).
5. Icon image should preferably be 324 x 324 px. This is how big the icon in !technology@lemmy.ml is and it looks pretty decent.

This is another subreddit I'd really, really miss if/when reddit goes down. Indie and alternative are my personal favorite genres of music, and indieheads is currently my favorite way to find new releases and old classics.

For now there's no real rules of Lemmy's indieheads except these guidelines from the original subreddit:

We are purposely vague on a definition of "indie". In general, music & news posts from these genres are not allowed:

Mainstream Rock/Metal Mainstream Pop Mainstream Hip Hop/R&B Mainstream Electronic & EDM

This is to encourage posts with music from more independent & underground artists. Experimental music & underground acts that exist within the banned genres will be allowed, at the discretion of the mods. Music & news from all genres can be discussed in the Daily Music Discussions.

Feel free to ask questions, upload music, and have fun!