V.V. Lightbody has released a video for my personal favorite song from her debut album, Bathing Peach, “Fish In Fives”. The LP, out today (June 8th) via Midwest Action, is the perfect breezy summer album from start to finish, and this track is the perfect example of that.

You can help V.V. Lightbody celebrate this new album tonight, June 8th, at Schubas with Rose Hotel.

Soul band The Devonns released their debut single, “Come Back/Think I’m Falling In Love”, last week. These tracks are pure throwbacks and are even available as vinyl 45’s. The Devonns are Mathew Ajjarapu (Keys & Vox), Cam Cunningham (Guitar), Khalyle Hagood (Bass), and Khori Wilson (Percussion).

You can catch The Devonns on June 14th at Martys with The Long Lost, and Obilio & Arrow.

Mxrxll is project of producer and guitarist Brennan Morell. Yesterday, Mxrxll released a new EP called “Dream 22”, and it is stunningly beautiful. Over the four tracks on the EP, he combines hip hop, EDM, and ambient music with sampled vocals. The result is a debut that needs to be heard.

Programmable Animal is the dark industrial duo of Anthony Wonaitis and Thoney K. Castillo. They just released their debut full-length album, End of the Tail. Below is the video for LP’s lead single, “Pinhead”.

You can help Programmable Animal celebrate the album at Underground Lounge on June 9th with Traumabond and Lorelei Dreaming.

Elk Walking released a new single last week called “Ride The Tide”. This is the band’s first release since their 2017 LP, Between Us.

You can catch Elk Walking on July 8th at Uncommon Ground with The Pinkerton Raid.

Photo by Catalina Florea

Claude (F.K.A. Clau Veux) is the etherial dream-pop of Claudia Ferme. She released her latest EP, “Enactor”, back on May 25th via Just For You Records in Indianapolis.

Below is the video her EP’s title track, “Enactor”, which was directed by CJ Lamborn.

I don’t really know to much about Florasim, i.e. who she is, but here new EP, "Emotional Honesty 2.0", has really caught my attention. Only four songs, one of which is only 40 seconds, this EP beautiful blends electronic music, samples, and lush vocals.

At the very least this EP makes me want to find out more about Florasim.

Cullen Omori, formerly of The Smith Westerns, has released a video for the latest single, “Happiness Reigns”, from his forthcoming sophomore LP, The Diet. The album will be released on August 17th via Sub Pop, and his video was directed by Sarah Strunin. Cullen relocated to LA a couple of years ago, but will hopefully be playing a hometown show at some point this summer.

Thomas Comerford has released a Lisa Barcy directed and animated video for the lead single, “Lull (Single Edit)”, from his forthcoming LP, Blood Moon.

Blood Moon will be released on June 22nd and will coincide with his performance at Hungry Brain that evening.

Ajani Jones has released an incredible Stripmall directed video for the song “Bloom” from his recently released EP, “Cocoons”. The Ep was released via Closed Sessions back in February, and “Bloom” was the EP’s closing track.

Post-Punk Trio Slayerkitty will be releasing their debut full-length album, Blame The Moon, via Crystal Palace Recordings on June 29th. You can preorder the digital album or cassette here.

The band has released the title track, “Blame The Moon”, and you can stream this thrasher below.

South Side emcee Snowy Joey has released a video for his latest single, “Bad Boy”. The video was directed by Great Nimy and the track was produced by Cxdy x Lezter.

If you are new to Snowy Joey, here is a DarielTL directed mini-documentary that he released last month which sheds some light on who Joey is and what drives him to create.