Hardly Art just announced that they have signed Lala Lala and has released the video for their new single “Destroyer”. The single is taken from their forthcoming album The Lamb, which will be released on September 28th.

Lala Lala is primarily the work of London-raised and Chicago-based musician Lilli West. Over the last few years her supporting cast has evolved, and on this album she is joined by Emily Kempf (of Dehd and Vail) on bass/backup vocals and Ben Leach (of Drool) on drums.

Flora is the funky Indie Pop due of Ryan O’Toole and Max Miller. Last month they release their debut full-length album, A Sword of Holly. This duo blends elements of jazz, soul, rock, and pop to create a sound all their own.

You can catch Flora at Beat Kitchen on August 2nd with Monk Tamony, Obilio & Arrow, and Snake Season.

Matt Muse has released a second single from his forthcoming album, Nappy Talk, which is due out this Friday, July 13th. “NegroSaiyan” was produced by 5Piece and features a verse from Femdot.

We are currently working on an interview with Matt that will be hopefully be coming out later this week.

Psych Rock trio Beastii has released a new single called “Got The Van”. They have also re-issued their great 2017 debut album, Can’t Wait, on cassette.

You can catch Beastii at Reed’s Local on July 12th with Lollygagger, The Lopez, and Swampwalk.

Breether is the Indie Pop sounds of Zac Bron. Over the last two months he has been releasing a series of singles that will be lead up to next full-length release, Take a Breether, on January 1st. The latest single was released on July 5th and is called “Dreams Of You, Pt 2”.

Sen Morimoto has released a Scott Cramer directed video for his latest single “People Watching” from his highly acclaimed LP Cannonball!.

You can catch Sen at Schubas on July 20th with Vagabon.

Indie Pop quartet Seasalt released their debut EP, “Tea Party for Teens”, back in May, and are currently participating in the Suburban Chicago’s Got Talent Contest. The EP’s lead single is the extremely catching “Kool Girl”, which I had the pleasure of seeing them perform live in St. Charles this past weekend. The song is an instant summer classic and the band had the crowd invovled from the first note. They should be moving to Top 15 and performing for the judges again on July 29th. 

Seasalt is the work of Jon O’Brien, Becky Sargeant, Kayla Seeber and Drew Zaremba.

You can also catch Seasalt opening for Sponge (Yes, that Sponge!) on August 24th at RocHaus in West Dundee.

Paul Cherry released his debut full-length album, Flavour, back in March and has been touring in support ever since. He recently took some time out of his tour schedule at a stop in Kansas City to answer a few of our questions.

You can catch Paul Cherry at Pitchfork Music Festival on July 21st starting the day off right and getting the crowd dancing.

Darkwave band Dead Hummingbird recently released a new single, “It Won’t Be Me”, from their forthcoming LP due out July 20th, Opera. This is the band’s follow-up to their 2016 EP, “Under The Ultraviolet Light”.

Dead Hummingbird is the work Matthew Meifert, Andrew Smith, Jacob Venditti, and Richard Kasbee.

i.e. kokoro (aka Kelly Reed) will be releasing her latest project, Decalogue, on July 13th, and we recently had the opportunity to ask her a few questions about this project and her past work. You can read our full conversation here.

You can Pre-Order Decalogue here and you catch i.e. kokoro at Empty Bottle on July 10th with Brigid Mae Power and at Subterranean on July 25th with Fitness and Wild Moccasins.

Dog Mom has released a new single and video for the track “Dropout” from her forthcoming album Ripe. The album will be released later this month via Sematary Records. This single is beautiful bedroom/dream pop while presenting honest and raw lyrics from a 19 year old just starting to find her place in the world.

Appleby released a beautiful new single today, “Young Lost Love”, from his forthcoming EP "+ Happiness". The EP will be released via Haight on July 20th. The single is accompanied by a Stripmall directed video that can be viewed here. The song and video address the feeling of consistently trying to escape the past but never being able to run far or fast enough.