The Beths release their new album Straight Line Was A Lie next month. So far we’ve heard “Metal” and “No Joy,” both of which are sonically upbeat and lyrically conflicted. With today’s “Mother, Pray For Me,” the Auckland indie rock outfit is going full tearjerker mode.

The members of Animal Collective all have their own things going on. Geologist, for instance, is now part of the instrumental space-rock supergroup Motherfuckers JMB & Co., and they just released a very fun album a few weeks ago. All those Animal Collective guys don’t get together as a group all that often, and when they do, their records don’t …

Earlier this year Lawn returned with the Parquet Courts-esque earworm “Sports Gun,” and now the New Orleans duo is announcing their new album God Made The Highway. “Davie” is their latest offering.

Matthew Berry has been a member of Happy Diving and Big Bite as well as Hotline TNT’s live band, but he also makes Americana-tinged indie rock of his own under the moniker the Berries. Today he’s announced his new self-titled album — which he’ll be releasing himself next month — with the lead single “Angelus.”

The last time that we heard from the way-out experimental rock star Yves Tumor was 2023, when they released the towering album Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds). It was one of our favorite albums of that year. Now, Tumor has returned with a new single, and it’s a collaboration with …

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Shabason is an adaptable collaborator with a long resume. He’s been a member of Destroyer, and he’s released records with people like Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn. He’s also been making music with singer-songwriter Nicholas Krgovich for a long time. Just last year, they got together with Matthew Sage to make an album called Shabason, Krgovich, …

Peter Silberman’s grand, ambitious indie rock project the Antlers made a lot of noise when they arrived with the 2009 album Hospice. Since then, they’ve spent time on hiatus and emerged from the other side. In 2021, the Antlers released Green To Gold, their first album in seven years. They followed it with a series of one-off singles, as well …

“Louse” is a funny word. It’s the kind of thing that Joe Pesci might have called Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, and now it’s also the name of a truly promising DIY goth-rock band from Cincinnati. Actually, Louse the band have been around for a few years, though nowhere near as long as “louse” the word. Louse started in 2021 …

It’s Snooper season. Good news: The restless punks are announcing a new album Worldwide, arriving this fall. Bad news: They’re retiring the õ’s in their name, which feels inexplicably sad (dare I say a recession indicator?). You win some, you lose some. The title track is out today and it’s enough of a banger to make up for the lost …

Fleshwater, the great heavy shoegaze band who came out of the hardcore scene five years ago, are right in the middle of a steady upward trajectory. When they released their 2020 demo, Fleshwater were merely a side project of Vein, the awesomely chaotic metallic hardcore band from Boston. By the time Fleshwater released their full-length debut We’re Not Here To …