What if midwestern emo was less concerned with confessionals and the relitigation of unrequited adolescent love and more focused on telling dick jokes? What if the Front Bottoms skateboarded in Bushwick, did coke and had liberal arts degrees from NYU?
Such are the quandaries answered by My Son the Doctor, a pop-punk/emo/slacker rock outfit based in Brooklyn. Glamours, the group’s debut album, is a blend of competent pastiche, catchy hooks and near-terminal self-awareness. While it doesn’t fully scratch the itch for those seeking a new champion of snarky-but-vulnerable pop-punk, it manages to justify its existence by being a fun ride that doesn’t overstay its welcome.
My Son the Doctor’s lead vocalist, Brian…
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Following the release of their celebrated debut album, 2024’s 
At just over 30 minutes, 
Google “Tom Boogizm” and the internet coughs up a blank: a lone Boiler Room set, a now-defunct NTS Radio show, a rarely-tended-to SoundCloud page. A Boomkat one-sheet for Dancin’ in the Streets, the DJ and producer’s latest release under the name 
The grunge explosion that took over the world in the early ’90s exists in iceberg form, with ubiquitously popular bands like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam as the most visible examples of the sound. As with any iceberg, these bands are just what’s most apparent sitting atop a mass of other active and influential but less immediately traceable players. You’re No Big Deal explores the grunge iceberg extensively, collecting over 80 tracks of heavy, ragged, and righteous noise recorded between 1984 and 1994 by some of the most- and least-known acts in and around the grunge movement. The tracks here were curated with help from Mark Arm, whose late-‘80s band Green River starts things off with the crude and metallic “Come On Down.”
Galvanized by his special guest slot across the summer’s Oasis uber-gigs, Richard Ashcroft returns with his first album of new material in seven years. Yet little has changed: on Lovin’ You, he’s only thinking, writing, and singing about the big themes.
Sometimes an artist introduces us to a sound we haven’t heard before, and sometimes to a place we haven’t visited. On Sphaîra, 
For two South Londoners, 
As Theo Bleak, Glasgow-based musician Katie Lynch makes delicately woven folk songs and plush bedroom pop, fashioned with shivering vocals. She released her debut EP Fragments in 2022, quickly followed by a run of EPs — For Seasons, Illiad, Pain — and demo collection Heaven.Wav. Most recently, she released Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers in May. With that prolific momentum, Lynch had planned on making her debut album this year. That didn’t happen. Grief had other plans. Instead, she made Bargaining: a collection of 14 haunted, unpolished tracks that snapshot her reckoning with loss and mental isolation.
There is so much noise coming at you all the time these days. The constant bombardment of stuff you aren’t interested in while you try to get things done, it’s exhausting. 
Music for Roads is a cross-cultural collaboration between Nordic jazz and indie folk/americana players, including Finnish trumpet player Verneri Pohjola, Finnish americana/folk band 
The artists on this edition are Council of Nine, Northumbria, Alphaxone, Atrium Carceri, Skrika, RNGMNN, Ruptured World, Neizvestija, Planet Supreme, Keosz, Dronny Darko, ProtoU, Gydja, Ugasanie, Burma Project, Primal Era Worship, Sjellos, SiJ, and Kristof Bathory.
…featuring the original 8 tracks plus 8 bonus tracks, including demos and alternate mixes.
Australian EDM star Alison Wonderland followed her third album, 2022’s Loner, with a fourth which seems to carry the same stylistic themes. She made Loner after COVID-19 forced her to pause her busy touring schedule, which made her feel lonely and vulnerable, yet she created music as a way to heal and empower herself.