In 2000, at age 19, Tami Hart captivated the queer and feminist punk underground with debut album No Light In August, a set of intimate folk-punk songs released on Mr. Lady Records. She toured with Sleater-Kinney and Indigo Girls and released her more rocking sophomore album What Passed Between Us in 2002. Since then, Hart’s musical output has mostly been channeled into the bands Making Friendz and MEN, but she resumed her solo career with the Thanks For Saying Hi EP in 2023.

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Interlay hail from the Windy City, where they whip up a blustery form of noise-caked, melodic post-hardcore that you may decide to file in the shoegaze bucket. Today they’ve unveiled plans for their third EP, the Sylvia Plath-inspired Snow Covers Your Insides, and shared its lead single “Silo.” Something about the dramatic falsetto vocals and overall grandiose doom-and-gloom vibe remind me of Sunny Day Real Estate’s How It Feels To Be Something On, but more than that, if you’re a fan of Knifeplay at their most epically melodramatic, you’ll probably dig this.

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In 2024, Chastity Belt’s Live Laugh Love was our Album Of The Week. The Seattle indie rockers have shared some songs since then, including a cool 764-Hero cover. Now, they’re back with two new songs, “I Could Say Less” and “Pavement,” the latter of which has nothing to do with Stephen Malkmus. Both tracks are about disillusionment, weighed down by gloomy guitars and resigned vocals. “I Could Say Less” starts with the question, “Why is everything so embarrassing?” “Pavement,” though, ends with hope: “Waking up with a little less dopamine/ Well it can be a good thing.” Listen below.

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It’s been roughly 700 hours since Hour announced their new album Ghost Bridge and shared its title track. On Wednesday the elegant Philly ensemble offered up another preview of the record, the thoughtful and stunningly pretty “Pearls.” Hour’s style of music requires a lot of participants, and for the “Pearls” video, they managed to get almost all of them together in one place for a rehearsal filmed by William H. Travis. Consider it the “Oldie” video of DIY chamber music.

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Jacob Brunner releases the third Strawberry Hands album next week. So far the Philly musician has teased A Jazz Blessing For The Animal with the compelling singles “Dream Of Water” and “What Plant Jumps Over Me?,” and today he’s sharing “Song Of Descent.”

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Back in the day, it would’ve been a much bigger deal if a Dischord band covered Depeche Mode. These days, boundaries between musical universes are a whole lot looser, and it feels completely natural — especially given that the Dischord band in question is the art-punk crew Shudder To Think, who were always glammier than their peers.

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D4L’s 2005 single “Betcha Can’t Do It Like Me” didn’t become a huge crossover hit like their other song “Laffy Taffy” did. But it’s still a prime example of the peak ringtone-rap era, and it still randomly gets stuck in my head way more often than it should. New York rapper/producer Cash Cobain made his name by building strange, horny new shapes out of ultra-familiar samples, and his new single “Betcha Can’t” gives D4L the sample-drill treatment.

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Lucy Dacus is celebrating 10 years of her debut album No Burden. The singer-songwriter announced an anniversary reissue today and shared the previously unreleased fan-favorite “No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye.”

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Che and Nettspend, two of the young rage stars who bailed on that Canadian rap festival, are both young as fuck. Che turned 20 last week, so they’re not both still teenagers. Still, when you add up both rappers’ ages, you get a grand total of 39. Tomorrow is my 47th birthday, which means I am the wrong person to say anything about “KickAss (Pull Up Pls),” the two-rappers’ first-ever collaboration.

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Hustle Culture: Good name for a band, especially a post-punk band. This particular post-punk band comes from Cincinnati, and their debut EP Kill A Computer came out last year. Kill A Computer: Good title! Today, Hustle Culture follow that record with a single called “New Government Pyramid Scheme,” and I’m sensing a pattern here. Hustle Culture are good at naming things. They’re also good at making bracing, urgent, cynical stompers, and “New Government Pyramid Scheme” is one of those. Listen below.

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