With menacing guitar distortion and blaring brass, “The Evil Stands High” is an immediately striking new track from Roja, Liverpool’s favorite indie mariachi group. Appealing to fans of cinematic-minded composers like Ennio

Sterile Jets recall ’80s and ’90s punk and alt-rock with their raw, loose vocal approach and take on societal discontent — not too distant from names like Fugazi, Butthole Surfers, and Melvins.

Insanely catchy, the new track “Telenovela Queen” Vie En Ville builds initially on a steady glistening piano and an anthemic vocal presence reminiscent of The Killers’ Brandon Flowers. It’s a recipe that

Meen Streets, the project of a British-Australian singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, crafts a spot-on impression of the spacious, anthemic pop tunes from the late ’80s and early ’90s — in the

“Lover’s Letdown” is a mightily impressive debut single from Goldmyth, an singer/songwriter/harpist who appears poised for a very quick rise in recognition. In her youth as a developing songwriter, Goldmyth always tended

In successfully capturing the irresistible emotional aspects of ’50s/’60s rock, “Yes Please” is a stunning success from San Francisco-based act Beauty Queen. Comprised of of Grayson Converse (of the previously featured Spooky

One Week Wonder is an Icelandic project comprised of Árni, Magnus, and Helgi. Hardly newcomers, one of the project’s members – Árni – was a founding member of the group Of Monsters