San Francisco artist Iphigenia Rose Lee makes distorted dancable pop that’s not too far from groups like M83 or TR/ST. Her new EP Holy Hell is out on April 5 via Yellow Year Records and second single “Sisyphus” is an appealing bleeding-levels anthem. This is also the only Foie Gras you’ll ever read about on this website.

Foie Gras is also the moniker to a Bay Area goth act, one whose second single has slunk out of the shadows just ahead of an EP, Holy Hell, due out April 5 via Yellow Year.

The first half of “The Garden” is bare-boned and ballad-like, with Conor Donohue singing about his mental struggles over a gentle acoustic guitar. Then, right around the song’s midpoint, “The Garden” bursts into bloom with cymbal crashes, keyboards and female harmonies. It’s a pastoral folksong with a garage-Americana heart.

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.