Fans of The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and everything that’s melody and noisy guitar at once, rejoice! Staple of the NYC shoegazer/noise rock scene The Vandelles are about to celebrate the release of their sophomore album "Strange Girls Don’t Cry," with a show at Pianos on July 25. The band recently unveiled the video of single ‘Miles Away’ – check it out below.

An unlikely combination, the music of Brooklyn piano-based rock group Dash Hammerstein sounds sort of like putting the Silver Jews into a bar with Wings and The Violent Femmes and admiring what drunken mess you’ve caused.

‘134340 Pluto’ (streaming below), from their latest EP ‘Old Country,’ opens like just another night at the bar, until the hook comes in and all kinds of surprising melodic journeys are encountered along the way. The night proceeds from there through five tracks, each with their own unique ways to declare the night is won, especially in album closer ‘Black Wax.’ The band swings their way around a piano like a Gibson SG lit up by twin Marshall stacks, and are just as pretty and danceable at once. Sober or not, this band will compliment any late night evenings. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

This band submitted their music for coverage here.

What do you get when you combine a spoken word artist with the guitarist/singer from NYC metal band Goes Cube? Not what you’d expect (not sure whatever exactly you’re expecting anyway…). Distant Correspondent merges these widely differing talents into a very unlikely scenario: There’s a world of hazy moodiness here, on the level of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s swirling shoegazery: thick guitars and gorgeously arranged harmonies.

When David Obuchowski and Emily Gray met up after anonymously listening to each other’s music for years, the sum they created is truly bigger than the parts. We are looking forward to their debut dropping later this year. Preview the haunting track ‘Listen’ below to hear some of Emily Gray’s spoken word, and look forward to their self-titled debut album due out October 22nd. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)

Not only did the six members of Truth and Salvage Co. have enough wits about them to move from LA to Hendersonville, they even named their sophomore album "Pick Me Up." While the West Coast was the perfect ground to foster relationships with Chris Robinson and the Avett Brothers, a strong fan base was growing in the South for their down home sound and cheeky, heartfelt harmonies. There are two chances this Tuesday to benefit from their new proximity: 6pm for a free in-store performance at Grimey’s, and 9pm for their show at Exit/In.  

Here’s the album first single "Appalachian Hilltop" – LA could never fully appreciate the ukulele, anyway. – Terra James-Jura