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  • Last year, New York’s the Men dropped an album of some pretty solid rock songs. I didn’t love it, though, and I suppose it all boiled down to have disjointed the album felt. While I appreciated the styles of underground rock that were being shown off on the

  • A stream of the third Scuba album, Personality. The album is dropping this week via Hotflush, and strikes me as being much less ambient and spacious than the project’s last album, Triangulation. And that’s fine with me, because the rhythms on this album are pretty driving and engaging.

  • Milo takes Baths by Milo I warned you about the forthcoming Milo mixtape, and now it’s here. Milo Takes Baths is one track after another of witty rhymes, obscure references, and instrumentals produced by beatmusic artist Baths. Download or stream the release above, and check a video for the

  • Fine Before You Came is in Italian rock outfit, taking influences from the worlds of emo and post-hardcore to create its energetic and passionate songs. The group’s latest LP, Ormai, is out now via La Tempesta. Stream one of its tracks, “Dublino” above.

  • I’m not single. I actually haven’t been single for around three years now. Still, this new beat from xxyyxx still brings out those “forever alone” feelings everybody’s had at one point or another. A beautiful and pitch-shifted vocal sample loops against a beat that’s interesting for

  • Nearly everything about this Bishop Morocco track, “Old Boys,” feels familiar and done before. However, there’s just a certain charm to it that keeps it playing softly in the back of my head, making me excited for the band’s forthcoming EP on Arts & Crafts. Title: Old Boys.