Look, it’s harder and harder for musicians to make a living at what they do. You have to be more and more creative to figure out ways to turn music into money. But how about this: A lollipop that costs nine dollars and plays a song in your head while you eat it? Boom. Problem solved. A new golden age has dawned. Everybody’s getting rich.

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Last month, Tigers Jaw announced their new album Lost On You. The Scranton emo band unleashed the ripper of a lead single “Head Is Like A Sinking Stone,” and now they’re back with the propulsive anthem “Ghost” as well as tour dates. “The genesis of ‘Ghost’ was a chance run-in with a person I grew…

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It’s PONY, baby! The giddy, consistently excellent Toronto fuzz-pop duo will release their new album Clearly Cursed in a little more than a month, and it’s shaping up to be something special. We’ve already heard a grip of early tracks: “Freezer,” “Every Little Crumb,” “Superglue,” “Middle Of Summer.” Today, they break us off with another…

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Katie Alice Greer, former frontperson for the DC punk band Priests, re-emerged last fall after a couple years out of the spotlight. In September, the now LA-based musician released “Talk To Leslie,” a dreamy pop song with the kind of downtempo electronic beat I’d expect to hear on a late ’90s chillout track. She’s got…

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A couple of months ago Gladie, the current project of ex-Cayetana frontperson Augusta Koch, released a new single called “Car Alarm.” Produced by Jeff Rosenstock, it also marked the Philly punks’ debut release for Get Better Records. Today, Gladie have announced a whole Rosenstock-produced LP arriving this March called No Need To Be Lonely, and…

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No, that was not Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan competing in this week’s Jeopardy! Champions Wildcard quarterfinals. That would be Stella Trout, a software engineer from Texas, though the contestant did acknowledge her pretty uncanny resemblance to the indie rocker during yesterday’s episode.

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Chicago musician Joe Glass is part of Sharp Pins, and he just released his own lo-fi power-pop album on the Lifeguard member’s label Hallogallo Tapes. The album boasts the excellent title Snakewards, and it’s seeing physical release on cassette, which feels like the right format for this kind of music. On Instagram, Glass describes Snakewards…

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In 2023, Final Gasp released their debut full-length Mourning Moon. The Boston rockers are back today with the announcement of its followup, New Day Symptoms. The electrifying lead single “The Apparition” is out now. About “The Apparition,” frontman Jake Murphy explains: A story of reality being much more horrifying than fiction. It’s about a captain…

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It’s a new year, and it’s time for some new power pop. Portland’s Bory is supplying us today with the announcement of his sophomore effort, Never Turns To Night, to follow his beloved 2023 debut Who’s A Good Boy. “By The Lake” is the second single out now, preceded by last month’s “We’ll Burn That…

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Along with their preceding group Talulah Gosh and their stateside collaborator Calvin Johnson, Heavenly were among the key players in the early-’90s twee pop movement. Their run abruptly ended in 1996 upon the death of founding drummer Mathew Fletcher, after which his bandmates announced they’d be retiring the Heavenly name. But over the past couple…

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