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• Dream pop /indie rock /indie folk band from Washington, D.C., COLOR PALETTE “Anywhere at All” new single
  

Spanning the 90s-inspired boundaries of Indie Rock, Dream-Pop, and Shoegaze, the D.C. band, led by songwriter/vocalist Jay Nemeyer, deliver straightforward yet emotionally intricate sentimental and melancholic guitar-driven sound, loaded with loud fuzzy riffs, and enveloping wistful layers of fluting keyboard melodies around dreamy, hopeless vocals, breaking into ecstatic wails while searching for someone, anyone, to spend time with.

• New Haven, Connecticut alternative rock /shoegaze /grunge band SCRT AGNT “Good Enough” single
  

“Good Enough” is an electrifying grunge-engulfed song about trust, faith, and not letting others drag you down, replete with lacerating suffering and agonizing frenzy that builds through a moody quiet/loud climax of loud, crunchy fuzz-laden, at times choppy and shivering, riffs, tinny energetic strums, and a final high-pitched, soaring excruciating sniveling lead, to echo commanding, frustrated, slightly gravelly, male vocals, warning another that time is running out. Utterly familiar ’90s Alternative Rock from the Connecticut outfit, but certainly not lacking grit and passion.

• Bedford, UK indie rock solo project of Jon Behrendt, aka Last Days of Rome “Sunday Driving” 4th single from the (currently untitled) third album
  

Sincere and moving ’emo’ guitar rock from the solo DIY English singer-songwriter drives insistent, plaintive and slightly distorted spindly guitar riffs to wander around intimate, heartfelt vocals that rise into melancholic croons vibrating with achingly twinkling, bittersweet melodies, to explore moving forward and taking part in life, rather than dwelling in the past and letting it pass you by.

• Montreal, Quebec chanson francophone /indie folk duo Ludovic Alarie & Tasia Bachir, aka Nous Deux “Porte-moi dans le bruit” from upcoming LP “… et le monde entier” [chouchou records]
• Portland, Maine dark ambient /drone /ethereal /slowcore /dream-pop /moody /synth project of singer and composer Alexandra Undone “Peeling” debut single
  
• London-based lo-fi experimental /acoustic /chamber /indie duo Rosenberg “We Still Love You” from the first LP “Lessons”
  
• Pateros, Philippines based Piolo M. de Guzman‘s bedroom /lo-fi acoustic indie pop /folk music project, Ugly Ugly “Come Back” from the cassette EP “Somewhere Far” [Galaxy Train]
• Atlanta, GA indie rock /dream pop /slowcore project of singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Thomas Howard, aka Orchid Mantis “My Epithet” from upcoming LP “Possession Pact” [Daydream Records / Start-Track]
• Melbourne-based shoegaze /psych rock /dream pop/rock project of songwriter Maia Efstathis, Kalopsia “This Moment” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based South American dream pop /synthpop singer-songwriter (former Selebrities) from Equador, Maria Usbeck “Floating” second single from the upcoming new album, “Naturaleza” [Cascine]
• Hamburg, Germany experimental singer-songwriter-pop-project theCatherines “The Coolest Place In Town” 2-track single
  
• Los Angeles-based ’70s indie pop /soft rock UK native artist Fonteyn “Holdin’ On” single
  
• Boston, MA-based power-pop singer-songwriter (former bassist of the Pills), Corin Ashley “Empathy Centre” single [The Sound Cove]
• Swedish electronic dream pop /indie pop duo founded in 1995, CLUB 8 “Let It All Fly” new single
  
• Reykjavík, Iceland twee /jangle /indie pop band Julian Civilian “Ég vil tala við þig” from the single “Ég vil tala við þig / Dáldið dreymin”
  
• Münster-based indie pop band of Sebastian Voss (Nah…, The Fisherman and his Soul, Herr Wade) and Nero Bates (The No Colour Twins, Twins on Fire), aka Cinema Engines – “Springtime Remains” from V/A “Its air is so sweet that it hurts” compilation LP [Bureau Platiruma!!!]
• Sandbach, UK jangle /indie /power pop solo project of singer-songwriter Paul Hughes, aka The Candy Strypers “California King” single
  
• Bay Area “occult heartbreak pop” band built around Mike Ramos (Flowertown, Tony Jay, Cindy) and Ray Serephin (R.E. Seraphin, Talkies, Glitz), The Pennys “Say Something” from upcoming s/t EP “The Pennys” [Mt.St.Mtn]
• UK existential soft /dream /indie pop singer-songwriter Kevin Wright (AKA Mr. Wright, Always, The Dreamers, The Party and The Guests, etc.), aka Hotel Artesia “Someone” from the CD edition of the Honey Muffins Records‘ 2024 debut album “Everywhere Alone” [Too Good To Be True Records]
• San Francisco-based indie pop /sadcore band led by veteran musician Glenn Donaldson, aka The Reds, Pinks and Purples “I Only Ever Wanted To See You Fail” from the album “The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed” (a collection of previously unreleased tracks on physical format) [Fire Records]
• Stockholm, Sweden indie-pop band of founding members Gustav Tranback (Paper Hearts, Dismal Plight), and Mikael Carlsson (The Honeydrips, Dorotea) joined by Fredrik Jalker (Boa Constrictor) and Thomas Aherne (The Garlands), Salt Lake Alley “Always Out of Time”, the first single of the forthcoming album of the same name
  
• Seattle-based casio pop /indie jangly pop project from Danny Rowland (Seapony /Space Daze /Transmittens), aka Research Vessel “Falling Now” from the second “Next Weekend” EP [Small Craft Advisory]
• Perth, Australia ambient /indie /dream-pop solo project Blood Knows “Dog Play” from “Ivy’s Trip” EP fourth of the label 2025 CD EP series [Too Good To Be True]
• Manchester, UK lo-fi indie rock /jangly /dream pop solo project Goodbye Wudaokou – “quarter light (rough unmix)” demo from upcoming album
  
• UK power pop /jangle /indie pop /guitar pop music project of Oliver Flanagan, aka Sorry Monks “(I Know) What’s On Your Mind” from the album “Perfect Hour“ CD [Subjangle]
• Bottrop, Germany lo-fi /kraut /shoegaze /dream hypnagogic pop musician and composer Gorden Spangardt (ex-Kirmes, GRDN.), aka The Interlaken Tapes “Bordeaux & Orange (feat. Christopher Uhe)” first single from the “EP 2” [Bureau Platiruma!!!]
• New York lo-fi /indie rock solo project (of NEVERHOME band), Notbrian “Just Us” single [Spirit Goth Records]
• Bogor, Indonesia lo-fi /indie noise pop solo project Texas Two “i’ll die for you” from “unexpressed feelings” EP
  
• Melbourne-based, Kiwi/Aussie jangle indie rock four-piece band ANNUAL LEAF “Harmony Waves” from “Beach Toy Library” EP
  
• Copenhagen, Denmark indie rock quartet Bubbling Well “Coastline” from the debut s/t album [Part Time Records]
• Montreal, Quebec lo-fi post punk /indie rock outfit Glass Dolls “Iris Maze” from the debut 6-track EP
  
• Christchurch, New Zealand seminal Dunedin rock sound pioneer band since 1982, The Bats “Loline” single [Flying Nun Records]
• Vancouver, WA power pop /indie rock band The New Pornographers “Ballad of the Last Payphone” single [Merge Records]
• London-based, early 90s-founded, C86 /punk /psych /indie pop band led by David Feck, COMET GAIN “Beat Of The Veins” from upcoming LP “Letters To Ordinary Outsiders” [Tapete Records]
• Los Angeles based dream-pop /psych /indie rock band led by John Andrew Fredrick, THE BLACK WATCH “Achilles Past” first single from the upcoming double-album “For All The World” [ATOM Records]
• Irvine, CA lo-fi /bedroom /dream pop band MAKEORBREAK “TABLE FOR ONE” title track of the album “TABLE FOR ONE” [Spirit Goth Records]
• Los Angeles-based surf /dreampop / indie pop solo project Famous Friend “Care” off “Blue” EP
  
• Buffalo, NY indie /dream pop solo project Red Sun 1981 “Walking in a Daydream” single
  
• Limestone Coast, South Australia-based Dream Pop /Shoegaze one-man band of songwriter, guitarist, and producer Dave Thomas, aka Hey Calamity “Sleuth” single
  
• St. Petersburg, FL surf /psych /shoegaze /dream-pop solo project of guitarist-songwriter Craig Pethe, aka The Cataract Pools “Echos From Tomorrow” single
  
• Utah post-punk /shoegaze /dream pop project of multi-instrumentalists Devan Bailey and Carter Smith, Ghosts of Cinema “Hope Springs Nocturnal” from the sophomore album “Fantasmagoria”
  
• Adelaide, Australia 5-piece Nu-Gaze /Dream-Pop group Chancery Lane “Skyline Cinema” from “EP.1C” [Shore Dive Records]
• Swedish alternative /post-punk /shoegaze band formed in the mid-90s,  Loom “A New Kind of Sadness” single
  
• Los Angeles-based 3-piece shoegaze /indie rock /dream pop band untitled (halo) “Doomcomplex” single
  
• Krakow, Poland Shoegaze /Dream Pop 5-piece band Strangers In My House “Cold Spring” single
  
• London-based shoegaze /dream-pop band of Miki Berenyi (Lush), Kevin ‘Moose’ McKillop (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled), aka Miki Berenyi Trio “Kinch” from the album “Tripla” [Bella Union]
• Bath/Bristol, UK trip-hop /shoegaze /dream pop band Night Swimming “Let That Be Enough” single
  
• Los Angeles shoegaze /indie rock trio fronted by singer-songwriter Marisa Dewa, aka Velodrone “Coming Home” from “Count To” EP
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah noise pop /shoegaze ‘dirtgaze’ band (formerly Idi Et Amin), Levelor “Anathema” single from the upcoming EP “DMTV”
  
• Los Angeles-based lo-fi /indie rock /shoegaze band Lozenge “Underbelly” from the debut cassette “EP1” [Candlepin Records]
• Austin, TX 4-piece noise pop /dream-pop /shoegaze band French Film “Crude Charm” from the upcoming cassette EP “Yours” [The Nothing Song Records]
• Seattle, WA psychedelic /slowcore /shoegaze 4-piece Combing “Felt” from the single “Felt b/w Voices”
  
• Berlin-based indie /noise rock /shoegaze outfit Roomer “Stolen Kisses” from the debut album “Leaving It All To Chance” [Squama]
• Richmond, Virginia dream pop /shoegaze solo project Always Other “All I Ever Wanted” single
  
• Cassino, Italy alt-rock /shoegaze band Vera Slö “Rêverie” single
  
• Dream pop /Shoegaze band founded in 1999 made of constant members Alex White & EJ Hagen joined by Laura Watling (of Tears Run Rings), original drummer Guyton Sanders, and John Loring (of Fleeting Joys), Highspire “Gloria” 7” vinyl single, first release in 15 years off an upcoming new LP [Shelflife Records]
• New York shoegaze /psych /space rock trio Heaven – “Dream Aloud” title track off the LP “DREAM ALOUD” [Little Cloud Records]
• Belfast, UK based dream-gaze /shoegaze band Virgins “Blooms” single
  
• Uppsala, Sweden 4-piece dream pop /indie pop /shoegaze band skilda världar “Esprit” single
  
• Los Angeles alt-rock /dream gaze /grunge pop band Momma “Rodeo” from the LP “Welcome to My Blue Sky” [Lucky Number]
• Texas indie rock /dream-pop /shoegaze band Glare “Mourning Haze” from the debut LP “Sunset Funeral” [Deathwish Inc. / Sunday Drive Records]
• Asbury Park, New Jersey post-punk /indie rock /shoegaze trio Prettier Now “Maple” single
  
• Santa Cruz, California alt-rock /punk /hardcore band Scowl “Fantasy” from the album ”Are We All Angels” [Dead Oceans]
• Swedish post-punk /shoegaze /indie pop band Agent Blå “Shapes” single [Kanine Records / VÅRØ Records]
• London-based  alternative rock /electronic /dream pop group Sunken – “Memoryboy” from “10K” EP [BOXSET]
• UK ambient /drone /psychedelia /dream pop /shoegaze band led by drummer, sound artist and record engineer Simon Scott (Slowdive, Lowgold),  Three Quarter Skies “Crows (Drab Majesty Remix)” from “On Fire” EP [Sonic Cathedral]
• Florence, Italy krautrock /indie /psychedelic rock band VOV VOV! “Night Ride” single [Factory Flaws]
• San Francisco 4-piece psych-gaze band Pink Breath of Heaven “The Wind Is Calling” from the upcoming LP “Colors Make a Sound” [Little Cloud Records (US) / Fuzzed up & Astromoon Records (EU)]
• Swedish lo-fi indie /psychedelic rock singer-songwriter from Stockholm, MIYNT “I am I am what” from upcoming LP “Rain Money Dogs” [B3SCI Records]
• Belfast, UK indie psychedelic rock band Junk Drawer “Nids Niteca” first single from the second album, “Days of Heaven” [pizza pizza records]
• Sydney, Australia shoegaze /drone /psychedelic-rock trio Grinding Eyes “Translucent White” from the LP “Out Of Focus” [Poison City Records]
• North East of England psychedelic garage soul trio Thee Strawberry Mynde “Reflections” from the 4-track EP “Reflections” [Rogue Records]
• California garage /punk rock new band of rock & roll lifer Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, Xenu & the Thetans), PSYCHIC PIGS “Psychic Pigs” from debut s/t LP “Psychic Pigs” [Slovenly Recordings]
• Seattle, WA 3-piece indie rock /rock and roll act Fluung – “Tear It Down” from V/A “What Else is Sacred? A Compilation of Grief” charity compilation tape [Den Tapes]
• Brooklyn, NY indie rock band formed in 2015 by Sohrab Habibion (Obits, Edsel) and Michael Jaworski (The Cops, Virgin Islands) along with drummer Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, Enon) and bassist Matt Hunter (New Radiant Storm King, Silver Jews), SAVAK “No Man’s Island” from the upcoming LP “SQUAWK [Peculiar Works]
• Swedish electronic /synthwave /Italo disco duo from Lund, Sally Shapiro “Guarding Shell” from upcoming LP “Ready To Live A Lie” [Italians Do It Better]
• London, UK electronic /dream pop trio Night Tapes “babygirl (like n01 else)” single [Nettwerk]
• Californian folk singer-songwriter since 1960, Tucker Zimmerman “River Barge” from the album “Music By River Words By Ear” (unheard songs recorded with fellow forgotten legend Dave Evans and Tucker’s son Quanah on guitar in 2002) [Big Potato Records]
• Kentucky rock /folk singer, songwriter and poet, Grace Rogers “Tranquility” from the upcoming debut LP “Mad Dogs” [Sophomore Lounge]
• Glasgow, UK psych-power pop /folk rock multi-instrumentalist and Trembling Bells vocalist, Lavinia Blackwall “The Making” first single and title track of the new album “The Making” [The Barne Society]
• Wellington, New Zealand indie spook-folk singer, songwriter and musician Greta O’Leary “The Greatest Peace I’ve Known” from the upcoming debut LP “River Dark”
  
• UK collaboration between folk singer-songwriter Keeley Forsyth and experimental neo-classical pianist Matthew Bourne, Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne “It Seems” from “Hand To Mouth” EP [FatCat Records]
• Lexington, Kentucky-based experimental /raga /psych folk singer-songwriter Ma Turner (Warmer Milks), aka Mazozma “Can I Get A Ride” off upcoming 6th album “Bathing In The Stone” [Sophomore Lounge]
• UK atmospheric Americana /canyon-rock /cosmic country instrumental project between ambient pedal steel explorer Joe Harvey-Whyte and psych-country guitarist Bobby Lee, Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee “Flatbed Alfalfa Run To Pueblo, Colorado, Fall 1972″ from the upcoming LP “Last Ride” [Curation Records]
• Manchester, UK-based ambient /drone /field recordings /folk guitar solo project of Indiana-raised musician Etta Helfrich, aka Black Brunswicker “For Who Defines Your Personhood” [Nettwerk]