VISCOUNT DISCOUNT by Sauna Youth

Sauna Youth are a quartet out of London and Brighton that released their debut LP, Dreamlands, September 3 last year on Faux Discx and Gringo Records. The band have joined forces with the two labels after self-releasing a number of 7"s, splits, and cassettes. The boys are a punk band, make no qualms about it, but don't expect the angry, political brand of

MERCURIAL by Schonwald

Schonwald are an Italian duo signed to HoZac Records that will be unleashing their dark, hypnotic synth sounds to the world via their US debut 7" scheduled to be released on 3/26 (buy here soon). The release features two tracks, 'Mercurial' and 'Gemini' and both tunes are terrifying interstellar journeys into the electronic abyss with pulsing, sinister 80's synth/goth

PICTURES OF HER DEMISE by The Paperhead

Nashville psych wunderkinds The Paperhead recorded and released their psychedelic 2011 self-titled debut LP nugget on Trouble In Mind Records before all three 18 year old band members left for college. It's a layered and orchestrated psych LP full of sitar and farfisa and channels their Syd Barrett and post LSD Beatles influences on their sleeves. The

[on repeat] STUDIO OF MY MIND by Ooga Boogas

There's yet another awesome Australian band made up of a bunch of members from other bands. This time it's Melbourne's Ooga Boogas who are led by Mikey Young from Eddy Current Suppression Ring and claim members from The Sailors and The Onyas. Their self-titled LP has just been released last week from Aarght! Records and it's their long

PICK A LINE by Diät

Diät are made up of two Australians and a German, and supposedly the creation of the band is rumored to have happend for the sole purpose of opening for Total Control in Berlin (doubtful). One listen to the two tracks on their debut 7" release, 'Pick A Line b/w No Accent,' from Iron Lung Records

[on repeat] JOHN STONE WILL BE CHRISTIAN by The Resonars

One of my favorite artists with that classic throwback sound of 60's harmonized power pop is the project of Tucson, Arizona's Matt Rendon. He's been putting out releases through The Resonars moniker since 1993 with a consistent sense of groove, psychedelia, and vintage garage pop qualities. Matt is responsible for every recording aspect of the 'band' (except for

50 FT DIVE by Western Medication

Nashville based Western Medication just released their debut 7" EP, The Painted World, on January 20th from Jeffrey Drag Records (buy).  The band was formed by Justin Landis who spent over a decade in the Nashville punk scene and includes former members of Useless Eaters and Bad Cops and have put together quite the refreshing spin on southern-centric post-punk. The EP contains five tracks that traverse the

HEARTBREAKER by Virals

UK artist Shaun Hencher continues on with his solo project Virals. After releasing two previous EPs, Shaun has released the Strange Fruit 7" on January 14 from  Zoo Music that features 4 new songs that start up right where he left off. There's loads of British influenced shoegazing and Teenage Fanclub style sunny-eyed guitar pop.  Stream the lead single