Underwire has released a new single called “Revenged”. This was recorded at Empty Bottle and is a part of the Sing Me A Story Series. The song was inspired by a story called "The Fall of Leopard’s and Rabbit’s Friendship” by a seven year old Ugandan girl named Angel.

You can catch Underwire at The Owl on August 26th with Valley Gals, and The Lipschitz.

The Mizzerables have released a lyric video for their new single “Whatever… This Sucks”. This is the title track from punk trio’s forthcoming album which is due out on August 23rd.

You can help The Mizzerables celebrate the release of their album on August 22nd at Reggie’s Music Joint with Nightcap, Butchered, and Benny and the No Goods.

Punk EDM duo JukeBots released several track a couple of months ago on their Soundcloud. These are the catchy, dance floor bangers created by two “robots”, K-Bot on programming, guitar, bass, and more and Z-Bot on vocals, guitar and keys.

You can catch JukeBots on August 30th at Hobart Art Theatre in Hobart, IN with Broken Robots, Balqrock and Buddy Danger.

Hardcore band Harm’s Way is kicking off headlining tour with Jesus Piece, Portrayal Of Guilt, And Fuming Mouth tomorrow night, August 7th, at Beat Kitchen.

They recently released a remix album called “PSTHMN”, which feature remixes of four songs from their 2019 album Posthuman (Feb. 2019, Metal Blade).

The Darling Suns have released their debut full-length album called Midnight Feelings. The band released the album two lead single, “Raspberry Homecoming” and “Loving You”, over the last couple of months and below is a live video of there DZ Records performance of “Raspberry Homecoming”.

This is the work of Robert Krause (Guitar/Lead Vocals), John Stenger (Guitar/Synth/Vocals), Lindsey Ward (Violin/Vocals), Sam Rorie (Bass) and Charlie Dresser (Drums/Percussio).

You can catch The Darling Suns at Subt (Downstairs) on August 17th with Sick Day and Morgan Powers.

Understudy has teamed up with Chicago Research to release a new collection of Lo-Fi, warped, dark Synth-Pop songs called “Sun Bleached Gauze”.

This is Understudy’s third album in as many year’s, but unlike previous album, this one is a accompanied by a volume of Understudy’s original visual art.

The Safes have released a video for the latest single, “It’s True”, from their forthcoming album, Winning Combination, which is out September 7th via Action Weekend & Bickerton Records.

The Safes will be touring the East Coast in September and the Midwest throughout October and November. You can catch them at Beat Kitchen on November 27th. You can also catch them on August 9th at BuckleDown Brewery in Lyons with Bleach Party and Time Thieves.

Instrumental Rock duo Spark The Forest has released a video for the second single, "The Practice of Learning from Past Mistakes" from their recently release album, Growth In Erosion.

This is the cinematic rock of Ryan Nelson (Drums) and Anders Johanson (Guitar, keys, synth).

You can catch Spark The Forest at The House Pub in Saint Charles, IL on August 11th.

It has been a year since the Ambient drone duo of Kate Adams and Joshua Dumas, known as Mending, released the first installment of their ambitious project We Gathered at Wakerobin Hollow. As we noted a year ago, this is a four hour, forty song, project that is being released in nine chapters.

The duo released "Chapter 7: Julia Alone” last week, and this chapter finds the character of Julia in Brooklyn corresponding with friends and experiencing the impact of a massive flood.

Sammy Cannillo has released new single called “What Happened”. This is the first original music we have received from Sammy since the release of her sophomore EP, “Interim”, back in 2017.

Sammy blends folk, pop, and rock with her clear ability to tell a compelling story. This track also marks her first collobartion with producer Joseph Marcus, and we hope this is the just first of many songs from these two. 

You can catch Sammy Cannillo on August 10th at Shuga Records (1272 N. Milwaukee) with Kacie Swierk.

Matt Muse has released the latest single from his forthcoming EP, “Love & Nappyness”, which will be released on August 9th.

For this single Muse enlists the talents of Joseph Chilliams of Pivot Gang and Mon’Aerie and three of them combined bring a very positive track into the world.

You can help Matt Muse celebrate the release of his EP on August 11th at the Apple Store on Michigan Ave and on August 17th at Schubas with Ausar, Loona Dae, and DJ Cash Era.

The latest installment in the Adult Swim Singles series finds New York artist, producer, and LCD Soundsystem member Gavin Russom teaming up with local rapper KC Ortiz on a track called “Heaven’s Highway”.

Ortiz dropped an amazing single, “Dream Warrior”, back in May and is truly having a breakout year.

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