While we’re all prepping for another long weekend at Warped Tour in Long Beach, it’s the perfect time to cleanse your palette with some new tunes. From Motion City Soundtrack to Point North, we’ve got you covered on all the new indie, alternative, and metal songs you may have missed last week.
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Motion City Soundtrack — “You Know Who The F*ck We Are”
Motion City Soundtrack just kicked off a new chapter in their band with the single, “You Know Who The Fuck We Are,” and it’s a banger, of course. Keyboardist Jesse Johnson shares, “It’s a very interesting thing to feel like we made the most important record of our career this late in the game. I think that if you look at a lot of our past records, it’s about ‘What’s wrong? What am I not getting right? Why do I feel fucking crazy? Why can’t I figure this out, and I figured it out,” Pierre admits. “It’s almost like I felt I didn’t have an identity [in the past] and now by working through the hard stuff, I know who I am.” Their new album, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, arrives on September 19 via Epitaph Records. —Maria Serra
Liquid Mike — “Claws”
Featured on their forthcoming album Hell Is An Airport, arriving on September 12, Liquid Mike has launched their latest statement, “Claws.” Fueled by the grit of ’90s alt-rock icons like Nirvana, the track bristles with restless energy, capturing the kind of insomnia that feels less like a symptom and more like a sentence. “Hell Is An Airport is waking up the next morning and realizing that maybe all the dumb shit you did wasn’t that cute after all,” the band shares. Currently on the road supporting punk legends the Descendents, Liquid Mike is sharpening their teeth ahead of the album’s arrival. —Paige Owens
Summerbruise — “VAN” (feat. Carpool)
Summerbruise, aka Indianapolis’ premier self-described “fake emo” band has arrived with their new single “VAN” with special guest Carpool. Excitingly, the vibrant and high-energy emo track will appear on their upcoming album Infinity Guise, due out September 19 via SideOneDummy Records.
Vocalist Mike Newman says of the forthcoming LP, “This was our first time in the studio since officially expanding from two members to five, and our first time ever writing together as a full band. Having so many more hands on the ball was exciting on it’s own, but the fact that some of those hands were fresh off of recording two of my unbiased favorite releases of the last few years (Arcadia Grey‘s Casually Crashing and S@YP‘s always cloudy) meant I got to watch what I would humbly consider a dream team of four of the most talented musicians I’ve ever known take these little stems and snippets of my ideas and develop them into songs I never could have dreamed of.” —Maria Serra
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die — “Dissolving”
On “Dissolving,” the latest preview of Dreams Of Being Dust, out August 22 via Epitaph Records, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die embrace ambient textures and reflective indie rock. Lyrically set “in the woods late at night, too far from home,” vocalist David F. Bello explores impermanence and transformation. Guitarist Chris Teti shares, “To me ‘Dissolving’ musically is a deliberate combination of what I would want to hear if you took My Bloody Valentine and The Rising Tide era Sunny Day Real Estate.” The band kicks off their tour this September. —Paige Owens
Yumi Zouma – “Cross My Heart And Hope To Die”
Protest songs don’t always have to include heavy metal riffs and urgent screams. Indie-rockers Yumi Zouma prove that in their scathing new track, “Cross My Heart and Hope To Die.” Featuring glowing, grunge-inspired guitar lines and ethereal, breathy vocals, Yumi Zouma displays eloquence and wisdom as they navigate rising apathetic behaviors and those dreaded fence-sitters. The band shares of the song, “Themes: corrupt bastards!!!! morally bankrupt world leaders, greedy narcissists gaining too much power, social media poisoned & controlled by corrupt overlords, keeping us addicted, the difficulty to avoid apathy, the world feeling like a hellscape, so many people on the fence and/or apathetic and/or feeling powerless to do anything about it.” —Maria Serra
Point North — “2 LITER SPITE”
Marking their first new release of 2025, Point North is back with their pummeling “2 Liter Spite.” Arriving before their Warped Tour performance in Long Beach, the track brings the band closer to their punk roots. They share, “‘2 LITER SPITE; is a song we wanted to make that was anthemic and modern but with the soul of the punk music we grew up with. We are always trying to push boundaries and out do ourselves, but for this one the X factor is that it is just unapologetically us and it felt fresh from the start. We hope everyone that listens can find the same energy and fun we had while making this one.” —Paige Owens
