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.

Electronic music producer Nicky Flowers will be releasing a new project called “The Smynths” on June 16th (32 years after the release of The Queen is Dead). This is collection of 8 Smiths covers by Nicky, and if the three that currently available are representative of the whole project it will be amazing.

Nicky’s take on the classic "Bigmouth Strikes Again” turns the song into a lush synth-pop track with computerized vocals and must be heard to be believed. 

In Nicky’s tweet announcing the album last week she admits she may be sued by a famous singer this summer, but clearly had to put this project into the world anyway.

Deeper has released a sad and somewhat dark video for their latest single “Pavement”. The track is taken from their self-titled debut LP which is out now via Fire Talk Records.

You can catch Deeper at Shuga Records on June 9th for a 2pm In-Store Performance and on August 3rd at The Hideout with Clearance.