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.

“Kiss Kiss I’m Fabulous,” celebrates black girl magic. The video features people dancing joyfully in different New York City locations, while Miss Eaves encourages everyone to ignore haters and let their lights shine. “Hating is so tragic / I know I am fantastic / I got that Black girl magic,” she sings.

Trench Foot’s mud-caked arrangements range from the plucky, bluesy smolder of “Skin Dryer” to the garage Johnny Cash shuffle of “Pansy From The Hills,” which rounds itself out with a fireside group sing-along. Baker feels that her interpretation of country music doesn’t necessarily fit with modern iterations of the genre. “It feels like I’m writing a country song based on these elements of country music that I think are the elements of country music, but they’re identifiers that probably aren’t as obvious to other people,” she explains.