After eight years of solid indie rock, Rockford’s Felix Culpa have called it a career. The band released two full-length album and few eps over the last eight years, but decided this week to end it. They recent release Sever Your Roots/Bury The Axe was released this year, and below is the video for the track "Our Holy Ghosts". They do plan to perform a final show in Chicago, and we will be you those details when they are available. You can read their farewell note on the front page of their website.

An Aesthetic Anaesthetic is releasing a new album later this month called, Before the Machinery of Other Skeletons. This is the band’s follow-up to the ep they released back in February.

The band is know more for their live performances than their records but they have come closer to capturing the force in their sound on this project. The are throwing a pre-listening party for the album tonight (Aug. 12th) at Transitor (5045 N. Clark St.). You can catch them live at Beat Kitchen on August 26th.

Joe Pug has released a new video for his track "Speak Plainly, Diana". The video feature video from the road which is where he is now and has been for most of the last year, but he did take some time off recently to put the finishing touches on his next full-length album. Details on that album should be coming out soon, but in the meantime enjoy the video.

Company of Thieves have a session up at Daytotter today. The band performed four tracks from their recently released full-length album Running From a Gamble.

Gold Motel is giving away their new single today and you can grab it over at Nylon. Gold Motel is one of the few (Smith Westerns, The Cool Kids, Maps & Atlases, and Young Man) Chicago bands gracing the stages of Lollapalooza this weekend. They are performing Sunday, Aug. 7th at 12:15pm.

MH is the recording name of local musician Martin Hayes, and back in February he released a beautiful folk-influence album called "Black Animal". You can stream the album below and purchase it here. This week he teamed up with artist Joy Whalen to create a video for the track "In The Blackness of Fire".