June 19th 2025

NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK announce new album| Listen to the lead song

Pop-punk icons Motion City Soundtrack make a triumphant return with the announcement of their new album, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World due for release on September 19 via Epitaph Records. For their first collection of music since 2015’s ‘Panic Stations’, the band doubles down on their signature sound with renewed energy and purpose, recapturing the magic of their early days while showcasing their growth and maturity after a decade-long hiatus. Over twenty years removed from their 2003 debut, the quintet’s signature cocktail of neurotic charm and hook-laden pop-punk is still potent on lead single ‘She Is Afraid’. Conceived during the making of ‘Panic Stations’, its bendy guitar licks and quirky vocal delivery sound at once familiar and newly vital. Check out the song and its accompanying Severance inspired music video

KIM GORDON reworks 'Bye Bye' with words censored by Trump administration

Kim Gordon has released ‘BYE BYE 25!’, a remake of ‘BYE BYE’ from her critically acclaimed second solo album, The Collective. Proceeds from the sale of ‘BYE BYE 25!’, both song and t-shirt, will be donated to reproductive rights nonprofit NOISE FOR NOW. Both ‘BYE BYE’ and The Collective were nominated for GRAMMYs at the 2025 ceremony. Of the ‘BYE BYE 25!,’ Gordon says: (Producer and collaborator) Justin Raisen had this idea to redo ‘Bye Bye’ starting at the end of the song. When I was thinking of lyric ideas, it occurred to me to use words taken from a site that had all the words that Trump has essentially banned, meaning any grant or piece of a project or proposal for research that includes any of those words would be immediately disregarded or “cancelled.” I guess Trump does believe in cancel culture, because he is literally trying to cancel culture.

WEDNESDAY announces album | Listen to ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)’

Wednesday announce their anticipated new album, Bleeds, due September 19th via Dead Oceans. With Bleeds Wednesday present an intoxicating collection of narrative-heavy Southern rock that—like many of the most arresting passages from the North Carolina band’s discography—thoughtfully explores the vivid link between curiosity and confession. “Bleeds is the spiritual successor to Rat Saw God, and I think the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album,” Hartzman said, articulating satisfaction with the ways her band has sharpened its trademark sound, how they’ve refined the formula that makes them one of the most interesting rock bands of their generation. “This is what Wednesday songs are supposed to sound like,” she said. “We’ve devoted a lot of our lives to figuring this out—and I feel like we did.” ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On),’ released today alongside a video by Joriel Cura, is a perfect example of this alchemy.

NOURISHED BY TIME share new single '9 2 5' | Check out the latest

Nourished By Time returns to share ‘9 2 5,’ the next single from his forthcoming album The Passionate Ones, out August 22nd via XL. ‘9 2 5’ chronicles the emotional toll of a working-class artist stuck between the grind of a meaningless day job and the relentless pursuit of his artistic dreams after dark, driven by a beat echoing the syncopated spirit of Baltimore club music.

BAD SUNS share dreamy new single | Listen to 'Mystery Girl'

California indie-pop band Bad Suns has unveiled their sparkling new single ‘Mystery Girl’, the latest taste of their dance-inducing new album Accelerator out on August 8th via Epitaph. In an upbeat cascade of dreamy riffs and a lively rhythm section, Christo Bowman’s wistfully reflective lyrics signify a crossroads for the lead singer and guitarist. Through a diaristic stream of consciousness, he remembers his coming-of-age years while facing the inertia of fatherhood: “There’s this beautiful new chapter in my life unfolding, and there’s mixed emotions that come with it,” he says. “'Mystery Girl' is a song about my teenage years, past relationships and experiences, and being a young person who is ultimately just looking for love.”

U.S. GIRLS shares 'No Fruit' | Check out this hot new single

Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy’s intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album Scratch It is out this Friday, June 20). In anticipation of the record’s arrival, she returns today with one final single and the album’s closing track, ‘No Fruit’ — it’s a slinky funk diss track, with co-writer/guitarist Dillon Watson’s wah-wah punctuating Remy’s biting and poetic prophecy, which could be aimed at a lover or the greater modern world: “If you don’t plant with the moon in mind / You will surely suffer shallow roots / When harvest time comes the picker will find / You got no fruit.”

FOUR TET shares new single ft. Mazzy Star sample | Get this gem today

XL Recordings has released a new single by Four Tet titled ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ which features a sample of Mazzy Star’s ‘Into Dust’. One of his most sought-after gems from the last few years, ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ is released globally alongside a limited edition 12” vinyl – available exclusively via the XL webstore – and an exclusive screen printed t-shirt.

RAFIQ BHATIA creates vast sonic ecosystems with new album | Watch live in-studio version of new track

Academy Award-nominated composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia announces Environments today, his first full-length solo album since 2018’s Breaking English. Coming out September 12, Environments celebrates Bhatia’s full-circle return to improvised music after a decade-long foray into meticulous studio-based constructions. In fact, the opening track ‘Aviary I | Sunrise’ was recorded in one take. Listen to the album version and watch a live in-studio version of the track

BAR ITALIA return an essential winter banger | Listen & Watch 'Cowbella'

bar italia return with essential winter banger ‘Cowbella’. ‘Cowbella’, the first new music from the band since 2024’s The Tw*ts EP, sees a transcendent vocal blunt rotation between members Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton unfolding over a wiry, shapeshifting rocker that culminates in an explosive and chilling skywards coda. It’s a multi-pronged anthem that only bar italia could conjure.

LIDO PIMIENTA shares stunning new video for 'Ahora' | Watch it here

Recently GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY-nominated artist Lido Pimienta released her orchestral masterpiece La Belleza. This week she has shared a new video for 'Ahora'. Check it out!

New Albums & EPs Out Now

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA releases Cursed EP |Get it now!

Unknown Mortal Orchestra releases their new EP, CURSE, which is out now via Jagjaguwar. The band recently announced the EP when sharing its lead single and music video ‘BOYS WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOLVES.’ CURSE reflects these cursed times we find ourselves in. Taking inspiration from Italian horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, the six songs on the release are as cathartic a listen as the band has ever recorded. Featuring both abrasive riffs reminiscent of Black Sabbath on ‘BOYS WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOLVES’ as well as the laid back, intricate guitar playing UMO is maybe most famous for on ‘DEATH COMES FROM THE SKY,’ the CURSE EP is the perfect soundtrack to your next confrontation with the void.

Reissue of the Week

GILLA BAND set to release 10th anniversary re-issue of The Early Years

Gilla Band Ireland’s favourite Avant-punk quartet has re-issued The Early Years EP, a collection of out of print 7” singles and covers originally released on Any Other City Records and The Quarter Inch Collective and then on Rough Trade Record in 2015. The re-issue features new artwork based on the original colour blocks plus ‘The Cha Cha Cha’ has now been remastered alongside the rest of the tracks and is ready for the dancefloor once again. Fan fave (and live setlist staple) featured on the collection is an eight-minute cover of post-dubstep mastermind Blawan’s absurdist banger and demented earworm ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage’ that, simply put, is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before or since