Obscure Sound — A breezy rocker from Luxury Mane, “Youth Envy” consumes in its drive from surfy guitar twangs to more caressing jangling, as serene vocals lament “youth envy, you’re killing me.” Reminding fondly of acts like Wild Nothing and Beach Fossils,... more info

Stereogum — When the Drums first emerged, I mentally slotted Jonny Pierce's music alongside bands like Beach Fossils, Real Estate, Wavves, and Best Coast — a guitar-driven complement to the summery lo-fi synth sounds we were hearing from the emergent chillwave... more info

Stereogum — Mei Semones is a Japanese-American New Yorker who released her jazz-meets-indie pop EP Kabutomushi last year via Bayonet (the label belonging to Beach Fossils’ Dustin Payseur). Today, Semones is announcing her debut studio album, Animaru, comi... more info

Stereogum — Beach Fossils have pretty eclectic taste. Over the past few years, the Brooklyn indie rock veterans have covered Yung Lean and Disclosure, and they went on tour with Post Malone. But sometimes Beach Fossils’ taste can be fairly predictable. For ... more info

Stereogum — Post Malone has been going through an interesting career phase. He predictably left rap behind a few years ago, bragging that he played guitar on every song on last year’s pop-leaning Austin, but hasn’t really been scoring hits with his own re... more info

Stereogum — Mac DeMarco was always an odd fit for Captured Tracks. By the time he’d signed with the buzzy Brooklyn label in 2012, it was an indie hit factory, releasing debut albums from bedroom acts like Beach Fossils and Wild Nothing, American kids obsess... more info

Stereogum — Mei Semones is a 23-year-old Japanese-American Brooklynite making sorta jazzy indie-pop that occasionally breaks out into virtuosic flourishes of guitar or orchestral strings. Her Kabutomushi EP is coming next month via Bayonet, the esteemed label... more info

Consequence Of Sound — The bands will join forces for a US run in April. Beach Fossils and Nation of Language Announce 2024 Co-Headlining Tour Eddie Fu more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, Beach Fossils released Bunny, their first proper full-length album since 2017’s Somersault. Despite being around for more than a decade and despite being quite popular, the dreamy indie-rock band had never performed on televis... more info

Tuneage — musicforants:Blame El Niño delivering some much-needed wetter, cooler weather this year for the playlist’s late arrival, but now that summer is sweltering, I’m here with my 14th annual mixtape full of effervescent, sunny new indie jams to blast ... more info