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Buzz Sound: Dari Bay
The sweetly succinct, scuzzy pop-rock power within the Robber Robber guitarist’s breakthrough sophomore album, ‘Surprise Wish’, is an existential head trip fueled by plenty of amperage.
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Recommended Album: Greg Mendez – ‘Beauty Land’
With his sophomore effort, the melancholic Philly indie rock songwriter makes a complex set of emotions sound simply beautiful in the darkest hours of the night.
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This Is Lorelei – “Billy Came Back”
The lead single off Nate Amos’ new album and Matador debut ‘This Singer in My Band’ is bound to return to your mental stereo time and time again.
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Wild Pink – “Box Store”
John Ross makes the perpetual hum of air conditioning going on right now during this heat wave of 2026 bleed right into yesterday like we’re enjoying the view with him, too.
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Quicksand – “Cool Guy”
More scene drama, as the post-hardcore heroes really have it out for someone while doing their damnedest to mind their own business out loud on the latest off ‘Bring On The Psychics’.
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Dinosaur Jr. – “Several Got Away”
The indie guitar rock gods go off gut instinct for a big jam on the lead single off their 13th studio album, ‘There Near’.
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Smirk – “Going off to Die”
The nomadic punk songwriter wants nothing more than to be unbothered on the highlight off his new album ‘Speculative Fiction’.
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Carly Rae Jepsen – “On Wires”
CRJ is hot and bothered in this emotion of pining that takes on a life of its own on the lead single off her new album, ‘Day and Night’.
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Charli XCX – “Wink Wink”
Thank god for trousers, as Charli banks on playing the part of a pop-punk princess with a love for her electronic toys to get the blood flowing in the right direction.
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beadaboobee – “Sun Has Set”
On the lead single from ‘Pylon’, Bea Laus’ pivot into her own pillow-y version of the pit works perfectly in feeding her sugar-coated irreconcilable spite.
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Fiddlehead – “Porch Light”
Leveraging heart-thumping melodicism has always been Fiddlehead’s stronghold, and here, it doubles as the power to make even the worst of times sound kind of beautiful as you’re navigating the darker days of life season’s with another.
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Fiddlehead – “The Dogs”
Listening to the ‘Baby I’ll Change’ positive anthem, you can’t help but wonder why we all can’t have adult friendships like the ones the guys in Fiddlehead have…