The Common Cold : "Stop The Traffic" (via mutante-inc./ Action Records /Soundcloud) "Stop The Traffic" is the lead single from The Common Cold 's upcoming new album, Shut Up! Yo Liberals .  The album is scheduled to release May 4th and is available for pre-order at Action Records . Via mutante-inc.: Only 300 copies of the vinyl will be released and the first 100 copies include a hand painted inner sleeve, a free badge, and other goodies __________________________________________________________ Once and Future Band : "Destroy Me" (via Tell All Your Friends PR/ Castle Face Records /Soundcloud) Via Castle Face: We're happy to be able to speak of this now that the cat's out of the bag — Once and Future Band have graced us with another tasty morsel of everything they do best. Vault-dust begone; this EP deserves your attention. Rarely do the words "vitruosic" and "tasteful" collide so often in my mind as tryi...

Young Fathers : "In My View" (via YouTube) "In My View" is featured in Cocoa Sugar , the upcoming new album from Young Fathers .  The album is scheduled to release 3.9.18 via Ninja Tune . __________________________________________________________ Blackwater Holylight : "Sunrise" (via Us-Them Group/ RidingEasy Records /YouTube) From Us-Them Group: Portland, OR quartet BlackWater HolyLight announce their forthcoming self-titled debut album today with an advance listen to lead single "Sunrise", available to hear and share via YouTube HERE . The notion of "heavy music" is continuing to expand of late, with many intrepid artists finding new ways to incorporate the power of traditional metal into new music, but without all of its trappings. Enter Portland, OR quartet BlackWater HolyLight to further swirl musical elements into a captivating hybrid of emotional intensity. Heavy psych riffs, gothic drama, folk-rock vibes, garage...

M.E.S.H. : "Search. Reveal" (via Julian T. Schoen/ Noisey /Vimeo) "Search. Reveal" is featured on Hesaitix , which you can purchase now at  PAN . M.E.S.H. - Search. Reveal. (PAN) from PAN on Vimeo . __________________________________________________________ Tag Cloud : "Measured Mile" (via  Verses Records /YouTube) Tag Cloud 's Pattern Recognition EP was released, 12.8.17.  If you like their single, "Measured Mile," the EP is available for purchase from Verses Record s.  __________________________________________________________ Sinister Bodies of Water : "When the Knife Falls" (via Out of Sound / CVLT Nation /YouTube) Sinister Bodies of Water is releasing When the Knife Calls on 12.21.17 via Out of Sound Records.  It doesn't look like the album is up for pre-order, but here's the Bandcamp link .  __________________________________________________________ Endorphins Lost : "Mercy For ...

Quicksilver Daydream : "Ferryman" (via Tell All Your Friends PR/ The 405 /Soundcloud) "Ferryman" will be featured in an upcoming 5-song EP from Quicksilver Daydream titled, A Thousand Shadows, A Single Flame , which will release February 9th, 2018.    The EP is up for pre-order from Quicksilver Daydream's Bandcamp . __________________________________________________________ Anenon : "Verso" (via  Friends of Friends /Terrorbird Media/Soundcloud) "Verso" is the first single from Anenon's new album, Tongue , which will be releasing on Feburary 5th.  The album can be pre-ordered at Anenon's Bandcamp . A review of Anenon's 2016 release, Petrol , can be found here . __________________________________________________________ Rosehardt : "Bad Song" (via Styles Upon Styles /Julian T. Schoen/ High Snobiety /Soundcloud) "Bad Song" is currently available digitally from Rosehardt 's Bandcamp .  ...

Facial : "Black Noise" (via  Chain Letter Collective /Us-Them Group/Soundcloud) "Black Noise" is the second single from Facial 's upcoming new release,  Facade , which will be released September 29th via Chain Letter Collective.  You can pre-order the LP  here . __________________________________________________________ Humans Etcetera : "Silkworm" (via  Nefarious Industries /Earsplit PR/YouTube) From Earsplit PR: Nefarious Industries confirms the October release of Intelligent Skeleton by China-based solo outfit HUMANS ETCETERA , offering an early glimpse into the album with a video for the opening track, "Silkworm." HUMANS ETCETERA is an experimental rock outfit founded by West Virginia native, Christopher Henry , also a member of Fuck Your Birthday , and formerly of Clean Dirty Clean . The outfit's output unifies '90s alternative rock and post-hardcore and modern experimental rock elements into a mellow but engaging...

PLAX : "What A Waste" (via  Super Secret Records /Us-Them Group/ The Austin Chronicle /Soundcloud) "What A Waste" is a new single from PLAX's upcoming release, Clean Feeling , which will be released August 11th via Super Secret Records.  You can purchase the LP here . __________________________________________________________ Hand Habits : "yr heart" (via  Saddle Creek /Force Field PR/Soundcloud) From Force Field PR: Document is a new series from Saddle Creek which aims to highlight artists and music scenes from around the world that the SC crew has fallen in love with, but aren’t necessarily already part of the Saddle Creek family. The third release in the series is the yr heart 7-inch from Los Angeles’ Hand Habits . Meg Duffy , aka Hand Habits , is a singer, songwriter and guitarist originally from upstate New York. She has been putting her time in on the road and in the studio over the past two years with pacific northwest band Mega...

BARDSPEC : "Bone" (via Earsplit PR/ By Norse /Soundcloud) Satanarchist : "Fire Against the Wall" (via Earsplit PR/Bandcamp) First Against The Wall by Satanarchist Kacey Johansing: "Bow and Arrow" (via Force Field PR/ Brooklyn Vegan /Soundcloud) Hermitess : "Blood Moon" (via Atwood Magazine /YouTube) Full Of Hell : "Trumpeting Ecstasy" (via Rarely Unable PR/ theQuietus /YouTube) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Girls In Synthesis : "Disappear" (via Big Mouth Publicity/YouTube) The Peacers : "Jurgen's Layout" (via mutante-inc./ Drag City /Bandcamp) Introducing the Crimsmen by The Peacers Demen : "Ambur" (via Rarely Unable/ kranky /Soundcloud) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

NAH : "hiver en neuf morceaux / IV" (via kinsman and meng pr /YouTube) Chastity Belt : "Different Now" (via Hardly Art /YouTube) Dinosaur Jr. : "Knocked Around" (via Jagjaguwar /YouTube) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Long overdue track selections for February... The Besnard Lakes : "The Divine Wind" (via Jagjaguwar /YouTube) Strange Lot : "Have It Your Way" (via Tell All Your Friends PR/Soundcloud) anjou : "glamr" (via Rarely Unable/ kranky /Soundcloud) Pissed Jeans : "The Bar is Low" (via Sub Pop /YouTube) Mons VI : "Away" (Mons VI/Bandcamp) Away/Tangerine (Eternity Redux) by Mons Vi Jessica Moss : "Glaciers I (Part I)" (via Rarely Unable/ Constellation Records /Soundcloud) Sam Rae : "It's Alright, It's Okay" (via Terrorbird Media/Soundcloud) You'll Never Get to Heaven : "Images" (via Force Field PR/ Yellow K Records /Soundcloud) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Rebecca Foon : "I Only Wish This For You" (via Rarely Unable/ Constellation Records /Soundcloud) King Champion Sounds : "Fool Throttle" (via mutante inc./ KCS Press /Bandcamp) Hauschka : "Familiar Things Disappear" (Terrorbird/ Temporary Residence Ltd. /YouTube) Oozepus : "CYN" (via Earsplit PR/ Malignant Records /Soundcloud) Joy : "Cut to the Nerve" ( Blood & Ink Records / Decibel Magazine /YouTube) No Joy : "Califone" (via Forcefield PR/ Grey Market / NPR /YouTube) Sunless : "Urraca" (via Earsplit PR/ Bandcamp ) Urraca by Sunless Parlor Walls : "Play Opposites" (via Northern Spy Records/Bandcamp) Opposites by Parlor Walls Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

E : "Great Light"  (via Thrill Jockey Records /YouTube) Uniform : "The Killing Of America" (via Rarely Unable/ Sacred Bones /Soundcloud) Droughts : "Welcome Back" ( Skeletal Lightning / Invisible Oranges /YouTube) Dan Deacon : "Opal Toad Segement" from the upcoming compilation, I Said No Doctors! (via Us-Them Group/ Dymaxion Groove / Stereogum /Soundcloud) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead