“It’s hard to remember that not everybody’s gonna let you down, even though a lot of people do.” This refrain is a meaningful leap forward for Emily Frembgen who has announced her brand new country-tinged indie-folk album No Hard Feelings due out September 13 on Don Giovanni Records. The new collection explores Emily’s past and the echoes of alienation that inform her present. Crafting the new album created space for Emily to delve into her family life for the first time, while also making sure to provide listeners with a stomping good time. Lead single "Are You Listening?," released today...

Modem is a Helsinki-based synth pop duo formed by Tytti Roto and Ville Valavuo in 2020. Having paid their dues in the Finnish punk and indie underground (in bands such as Tamara Luonto, Plastic Tones, Kissa, Foreseen and Kohti Tuhoa), the duo set out to create electronic pop music and channel their love for the synthetic sounds of the 1980s.   The band’s debut album Megalomania analyzes the ambivalent values of the western world. Their danceable synth pop creates a backdrop for lyrical themes such as animal rights, socio-economic inequality, self help culture, the brutal history of European colonialism and its...

Bad Moves is exhausted, and they're willing to bet you are, too.  On their long-awaited upcoming album, Wearing Out The Refrain, the DC power-pop band explores the repetitive cycles of life that elicit existential nausea––a phrase they define as "the moments in which we find ourselves overwhelmed by an oppressive sense of pointlessness."Through hooky guitar pop and interlocking, layered vocals, Bad Moves tackle these sorts of complicated themes with sardonic glee. Whether it's the grinding gears of capitalism, the Sisyphean pursuit of emotional growth or the shifting balance between social change and regression, it feels like life keeps telling the same bad joke,...

“truly astounding. Rooted in the melodic traditions of soul, the Ohio collective pushes their sonic boundaries into the distant future." Afropunk "a collective spanning generations, gender, and genre. Their recordings and performances are a synthesis of soul, blues, gospel, jazz, hip-hop, and avant-electronics, mixing live instrumentation with programmed sounds, and feature a trio of vocalists who swap lead and background roles." AllMusic “the band shift seamlessly between classic and contemporary sounds, and between subject matter that’s both heartbreaking and life-affirming” Bandcamp "the kind of music made for the frontlines of a protest...a fully realized, liberating dive into self-actualization; one that...