Berlin Taxi take a synthetic yet elegant bounce in their new hit single, “LATE NIGHT.” It’s a tune that utilizes plenty of bold textures to dash the listener with its catchy rhythmic pulse. The tune’s vocals are lathered into the swell, giving it a holistic feel embedded into the aesthetic.

From the first chord of this shuddering garage rock single it’s clearly another killer track from our favorite Nashville punk-pop-punks, Taco Mouth. A brilliant protest song with anthemic choruses that belong on the picket line, ‘The White House’, which is unsurprisingly, a massive, “f*ck you” to the current president of America, Donnie T.

To hear principle members Michael Coomers and Curtis O’Mara tell it, Harlem the band may have gone away, but Harlem-the-friendship didn’t. And like an old friend you run into, where catch-up quickly turns to in-jokes, it was maybe just a matter of time before we would hear from the Austin-by-way-of-Tucson-by-way-of-a-lot-of-places group again.

All proceeds from the comp, released by Living Statue Records, will go towards No More Dysphoria, a nonprofit organization that helps transgender individuals to pay for transition expenses.

“Queen of Mosquitoes,” the third single from the record, is the sweetest and least hurried of the lot, floating along on a placid Hammond organ, peppered with little literary references from Coomers. It’s charming without seeming naive, self-effacing without seeming disingenuous, and calming without sending the listener into a coma.

You may remember Austin band Harlem, whose 2010 album, Hippies, was released on Matador, and who went on hiatus in 2012. Principle songwriters Coomers and Curtis have regrouped and Harlem are working on a new album, titled Oh Boy, that will be out on Valentine’s Day 2019.

Nashville rock act Taco Mouth have released a video for their song “Fighting For Today,” which comes from their new album, A Deafening Silence.

Brooklyn-based rockers A Deer A Horse have been hard at work on a yet-to-be-announced album recorded at Gojira’s Silver Cord Studio in Queens, New York. Now, the band is unveiling new music by teaming up with Consequence of Sound and Heavy Consequence to premiere the riff-heavy new song “Double Wide”

the band — a duo which consists of songwriters Jaybird Parkhurst and Stefanie Vigoren, by the way — have just announced that they’ll be marking the end of summer NOT with silence and frigidity, but by throwing on their brightest fall jackets and stepping-out for a series of dates with another little “propulsive indie rock band” you might have heard of called Modest the fuck Mouse!

SDTF aren’t necessarily the “typical” sort of band you might imagine would come out of New Orleans … On the one hand, they sound like all the most palatable, pure pop-funk sounds from the 80s (think Prince, Rick Astley etc). But on the other, they’re almost… nightmarish. Theirs is a warped, chaotic, DIY nostalgia, brought to life by a series of freaky homemade videos. Maybe it’s horrid. Maybe it’s amazing. Maybe it’s both at once.