This past weekend was a busy one for alternative music fans between Inkcarceration, Minnesota Yacht Club Festival, and My Chemical Romance in San Francisco. If you were too busy looking at live streams or queuing up for your fave artists, we’ve got you covered on all the dazzling indie, alternative, and metal new songs you may have missed last week.
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Pool Kids — “Leona Street”
Pulled from their forthcoming full-length, Easier Said Than Done, arriving via Epitaph Records on August 15, Pool Kids has issued the latest statement of the album titled “Leona Street.” On the release, frontwoman Christine Goodwyne narrates a moment of self-reflection as she passes the home of a former friend, triggering memories of loss, failure, and the cyclical nature of personal growth. With haunting honesty, she admits, “I am still the flawed person this old friend would remember, the kind of person that let the friendship die in the first place,” laying the emotional groundwork for the record to come. —Paige Owens
Chapel — “Dirty House”
Thank God, Chapel is back and better than ever. The Nashville alt-pop duo just launched their single and goofy music video for the bop that is “Dirty House” on July 16 ahead of the release of new album Modern Nature, which just dropped on July 18. This marks their first full LP release since Sunday Brunch. On their release show, Chapel noted, “damn, it’s good to be back.” And same… we’ve missed your iconic pop sonics, and will be spinning this LP on repeat. — Maria Serra
The Technicolors — “First Class To Nowhere”
Following the release of tracks “Softcore,” “Posh Spice,” and “Gold Fang,” Phoenix indie-rockers The Technicolors released their new track, “First Class To Nowhere,” featuring Madison Cunningham. Excitingly, this is just the beginning for your favorite new playlist additions, as these bangers will all appear on Heavy Pulp, due out on August 29 via SoundOn. Frontman Brennan Smiley shares, “For whatever reason I’ve noticed a pattern where I’ll attempt to write a song directly for someone close, or with that specific person in mind, and it almost always turns out that I’m actually writing it to myself just the same. That’s what this song ended up becoming; a sort of ‘get well soon’ card to myself and to that person and to anyone.”
Smiley adds, “While a lot of other songs on the album take a different approach — hiding behind masks or playing different characters as a way of revealing something else, it was important for this song to feel as naked and vulnerable as possible and to risk that level of honesty. I’d be lying to myself if I said that came easy.” — Maria Serra
The Acacia Strain — “A Call Beyond”
Nothing hits quite like a pissed-as-fuck track from The Acacia Strain. Which is exactly what listeners are getting on “A Call Beyond,” the lead single to their newly announced album You Are Safe From God Here, out October 24 on Rise Records. 140 seconds chalked full of headbanging riffs and breakdowns, “A Call Beyond” is going to be opening up pits around the world as a TAS setlist staple for years to come. To make it even better, Vincent and the boys have also dropped a music video for the song that will have OG fans feeling nostalgic as they’ve done it in their trademark goofy, yet horrifying, style of music videos! —Patrick Walford
Fit For A King (feat. Chris Motionless of Motionless In White) — “Witness The End”
Two words perfectly describe “Witness The End:” HOLY FUCK! The closing track to their upcoming record Lonely God and final single before its release on August 1, Fit For A King and Chris Motionless give us an all-time dream collab that not only meets expectations, but it blows them right out of the water. FFAK is out here having Motionless sounding like Creatures-era Motionless In White. This brooding symphonic metal track is a ripper that will have fans of each band hooked on first listen and is hands down the heaviest closing track FFAK have ever done in their career. — Patrick Walford
