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• Seattle/Tacoma, WA Indie /Power Pop /Rock’n’Roll 4-piece The Rallies “Comes And Goes” (single)
  

The Pacific Northwest combo has a refined knack for writing insanely and deliciously infectious retro Power Pop tunes, seamlessly not missing a beat. Bouncy drums, snaking rubbery bass pulses, and jangling wistful guitar arpeggios, led by warm heartfelt vocals of gloom and elation, layer with uplifting nostalgic ‘doo-wop’ backups, to explore life’s highs and lows with intoxicating harmonies.

• Los Angeles-based noise rock /shoegaze /dream-pop band Supergloom “sideFX” single
  

We met the Los Angeles based noisy/dreamy Shoegaze power trio through an interview on the occasion of Seattle‘s Tremolo Fest at the end of last year, which hinted at a guitar-laced sound rich in nuance, as shown by the new single that alternates thick blaring riffs of droning and ringing, plaintive distortion with softer, pensive shimmering strums, to feed ceaselessly heartfelt emotional waves engulfed by sad high angst, wistful vocals lost in disconnection.

• San Antonio, TX indie rock /dream pop /shoegaze project of Joshua Hatten (aka Father Mulligan) featuring Rebecca Vines, Crux of Faith “Lonely Girl” from the “A New Day” EP
  

Endearing new EP from the Texan Shoegaze project delves into its gentler, reflective and more ecstatic side adjacent to dream pop, with only the third and final, probably less effective, track featuring gauzy sheets of distortion. Slightly rippled with jangly ethereal tones ala The Sundays and crispy percussions the opening title track, while “Lonely Girl” unfurls shimmering and enveloping electro-acoustic guitar trails filled with breezy melancholy, while sad crystal clear vocal introspections sway into distorted heartbroken cries, to explore the confusing emotions of lost love.

• German experimental /indietronica /tape loops /electronic /dream pop /ambient pop trio Schatterau "Duet" from the incoming second album "Übers Jahr" [Hands in the Dark]
• Malmö, Sweden 3-piece experimental ambient /psych /kraut /electronic pop group Death And Vanilla "Intro" first excerpt from the upcoming soundtrack for the late 60s British cult horror-folk drama "Whistle And I’ll Come To You" [Fire Records]
• Space electronic /neo-classical /cinematic /synth-pop duo of Latvian multi-instrumentalist and producer Arturs Liepins and vocalist, ethnomusicologist Anete Stuce, aka Domenique Dumont - "To Unknownia" from upcoming V/A "Nocturnes Vol. 2" compilation [Les Disques Nocturnes / Midnight special records]
• Bay Area solo synth-pop project from Lauren Matsui (Seablite), Rhymies “I Dream Watching” title track of the upcoming debut vinyl 12" EP “I Dream Watching” [Dandy Boy Records]
• Lund, Sweden Dream-Pop /Italo-Disco /Synth-pop duo, Sally Shapiro “The Other Days" first single from Sally Shapiro's forthcoming album "Ready To Live A Lie" [Italians Do It Better]
• Los Angeles minimal electronic /dream pop duo of Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and Max Foreman formed in 2013, BOUQUET "Hold On" single
  
• Chicago-based instrumental indie /dreampop /shoegaze one-man project of Jason Hufford (formerly known as Linea Aspera), PALE COAST “photosynthesis”
  
• Portland, OR doom pop /shoegaze /dreamgaze 4-piece Death Parade “Limelight” demo single from the upcoming album
  
• Copenhagen, Danish dream pop /indie pop duo Snuggle "Dust" new single [Escho]
• Norway lo-fi /trip-hop /dream-pop /indie folk songwriter and producer Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser, aka Tuvaband – “Seven Ways of Floating” single
  
• Montreal, Québec '60s psych /indie rock solo project of Corridor songwriter-vocalist-guitarist Jonathan Robert, aka Jonathan Personne “Vision" from the 4th LP "Nouveau Monde" [Bonsound]
• Los Angeles, CA wave /indie folk /dream pop /slowcore duo Ruby Haunt “Angel Ring” from the LP “Blinking in the Wind”
  
• Perth, Australia post-rock /shoegaze /slowcore project by Bluetile Lounge member Howard Healy and collaborators, Rares "In relief" debut single
  
• Atlanta, GA indie rock /dream pop /slowcore project of singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Thomas Howard, aka Orchid Mantis "Spirit Circle" from upcoming LP "Possession Pact" [Daydream Records / Start-Track]
• Oslo, Norway indie /dream pop solo project Yndling “As Fast as I Can” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Copenhagen, Denmark lo-fi indie rock /bedroom pop solo project flatheadstanley "Bleach" title track of the new EP "Bleach"
  
• Michigan Dream Pop duo Bluhm "Ghosts Between Us" single
  
• Houston, TX dream pop /indie rock singer-songwriter Love Spells "Reach Out And Kiss Me" single
  
• Ontario indie rock /folk /dream pop solo project Jaguar Sun “Thousand Down” single [Born Losers Records]
• Paris-based ambient pop /slowcore /dream pop /shoegaze band led by songwriter Didier Mocq, Blindfold of the Empire "Awareness" single
  
• Brighton, UK Indie Rock /Post Rock /Dream Pop /Shoegaze band led by Shane Speed, aka Sea Of Days "Duality" from "Wound" LP [Shore Dive Records]
• Austin, TX shoegaze /dream pop /electronic duo TaSzlin Trébuchet (Fuck Money) and Lars Wolfshield (Wolfshield Records), Jet Cemetery "Embers" single
  
• Los Angeles-based surf /dreampop / indie pop solo project Famous Friend “Bunny Ears” single
  
• Chicago-based funk /soul /psych /rock singer-songwriter Neal Francis "What's Left Of Me" from the LP "Return To Zero" [ATO]
• Glasgow, Scotland freakbeat /West Coast psychedelia /jangle /modernist sunshine /indie pop duo of Kevin McGachy & Craig McNally, aka Dewey Lester & The 6:03 "The Fine Major's Prayer" from the debut album "SUMMER '72"
  
• Greenfield, Massachusetts shoegaze /indie /dream /jangle pop outfit Crystal Meadows “We Can Get Away from Here” from the debut “Fall to Pieces" EP (a revisited version of the band's debut originally from 2022)
  
• French jangle /Britpop /indie pop solo project of musician and composer Thierry Haliniak (also part of Meyverlin), My Raining Stars "The Cost Within" third single from the forthcoming 3rd album "Momentum" [Too Good To Be True / Shelflife Records]
• Glasgow, Scotland 5-piece jangle /indie pop /art punk band Water Machine "Tiffany" first single from the upcoming album "God Park" [FatCat Records]
• London-based fuzzy noise pop five-piece C Turtle "2001" title track of the ltd. CD EP "2001" [Blitzcat Records]
• Leeds/London-based lo-fi /fuzz /noise pop four-piece The Manhattan Love Suicides "She's A Bullet (Demo)" from the remastered and expanded reissue of the early 2025 reunion album "More Heat! More Panic!"
  
• Glasgow-based C86 /jangly indie /noise /twee-pop collective led by Craig Dunlop (Milk Aisle Gorbachev), I Wanna Be A Truck Driver “When We're in Town" from the album "While No One's Looking"
  
• Chicago-based DIY goth /post-punk /shoegaze /dream pop singer-songwriter Ghost Days "Butterfly Girl" single
  
• French jangle /dream pop /indie pop band from Paris, Pale Spectres “Better Than Love” title track of “Better Than Love” EP (Third of the label’s 2025 CDr EP series) [Too Good To Be True]
• Vienna, Austria indie rock /shoegaze /dream pop trio Backwards Charm “Convoluted Sonder" single
  
• Copenhagen, Denmark synth-pop /dream pop duo Secrecy "Don't Trust Ur ❤" single off upcoming album "Scenes From a Daydream" [Part Time Records]
• Paris-based Shoegaze /Synthpop band Sure ”Destruction Of Form (Feat. PENCEY SLOE)" from the album "Destruction Of Form"
  
• Boston, MA folk /shoegaze /indie dream rock band Paper Lady “Static” single
  
• Early 1990s Czech dream-pop /shoegaze trio The Naked Souls "Auto Da-Fé" from the remastered double vinyl compilation of the whole band's discography "Reverb From The Depths" [Painted Air]
• Launceston, Australia garage-rock /dream-pop /psychedelic-rock /shoegaze band Dvrkworld "US" from the debut s/t EP [The Weird Beard / Psychedelic Salad Records]
• Melbourne, Australia noise pop /shoegaze /psychedelic rock band Cochlear Kill “God is on Heroin" from "Songs in the Key of S” EP
  
• Italian indie /dream pop /shoegaze solo project of Michele Cingolani, AKA Waving Blue “Taste for Good" from the new LP "Fake.Love.Desire.”
  
• San Francisco grunge /indie rock /shoegaze band BADVRIL "Hiding" from the LP "In Heaven"
  
• Hungarian dream pop /shoegaze band from Budapest, Dazzled "Tainted Mind" from the debut EP "Early Reflection" 
  
• Amsterdam-based Russian alt-rock /post-rock/dream pop /shoegaze band, SPRING WINDS “Change the channel" from the debut LP "Destabilized"
  
• Ontario, Canada experimental alt-rock /dream pop /post-rock /shoegaze four-piece band Mount Mural "Everyone" single
  
• Pittsburgh, PA alternative /hardcore /indie rock /shoegaze /noise-pop band Feeble Little Horse "This Is Real" single [Saddle Creek]
• Portland, OR indie-rock band Queen Rodeo "Wavelength" from the LP "Silent Motion"
  
• San Francisco-based shoegaze /indie rock /psychedelic rock band of  Sean Curran (The Sickerthings, Nebtwister), Ricky Maymi (The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Imajinary Friends), and Justin Welch
  (Elastica, Piroshka, Miki Berenyi Trio, Lush, The Jesus & Mary Chain), The Stalwart Lovers "Darkside" second single from the forthcoming album "LOVE SONGS FROM A BROKEN HEART"
• South London lo-fi /shoegaze /neo-psychedelic trio HOLY SPRINGS "Right Time"
  
• Scottish psychedelic rock/shoegaze/alt outfit The Mushroom Club “Superstars“ off upcoming debut LP "Walk Into The Light"
  
• Pomona, CA '60s garage psychedelic band The Violet Mindfield  “Questions" from the LP "Distorted Portrait” [Outro Records]
• Cambridge, MA/Portland, OR lo-fi /drone /improv /indie rock duo of The Spatulas mastermind Miranda Soileau-Prat and The Spatulas latest guitarist Lila Jarzombek (aka Nowhere Flower), aka Miranda Spatula & Nowhere Flower "Around & About You" title track of the cassette album "Around & About You" [Post Present Medium]
• Los Angeles psychedelic folk /garage rocker Ty Segall "Fantastic Tomb" from the forthcoming album "Possession" [Drag City]
• Los Angeles rock & roll /space psychedelic rock band HOOVERIII – “Westside Pavilion of Dreams" from the 4th LP "Manhunter” [The Reverberation Appreciation Society]
• Rouen, France garage /psych / indie rock band Ellah A. Thaun - "Time. Again. Allergic." off upcoming third album "The Seminal Record Of Ellah A Thaun" [Incisive Records / Howlin’ Banana / Flippin’ Freaks Records]
• Melbourne-based krautrock /synth /avant-pop band Eggy "Open Field" from the third album "FROM TIME TO TIME" [Flightless Records]
• Paris-based 4-piece garage /power pop band Roberta Lips "En Plein Cœur" title track of the upcoming "En Plein Coeur" EP 7" [Flexidiscos / Le Cèpe Records]
• Michigan-based indie rock /folk band led by Dayton, OH-born artist, musician, songwriter, and former Guided By Voices guitarist, Tobin Sprout and Bevil Web "Pop Da Dada" from Tobin Sprout, Bevil Web "4 Song" EP
  
• Normandy-based, English psych-folk singer-songwriter Mark Fry "Not On The Radar" from the upcoming "Not On The Radar" [Second Language Music]
• Los Angeles-based experimental /minimalistic /jazz /post-rock /folk quartet, Fuubutsushi "Harmony of Irrelevant Facts" 7" single [Whited Sepulchre Records]