Alternative Press

3 days ago | altpress.com | Neville Hardman

Narrow Head’s Moments of Clarity delivered a collection of explosive, pop-minded songs that turned pain into catharsis.Nihilistic Easyrider, the project of frontman Jacob Duarte, heads in another direction, tapping into the 2000s emo and pop punk that shaped his coming of age. His new mixtape, DELUXE EDITION, arrives July 25 via Run For Cover,fleshed out by Narrow Head drummer Carson Wilcox, producer/former tourmate Graham Hunt, and features from Momma’s Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman.

6 days ago | altpress.com | Neville Hardman

Honeycrush is the solo project of NYC singer-songwriter and poet Alexandra Antonopoulos, whose powerful, sultry storytelling falls somewhere between alternative, dream pop, and indie rock. Citing Nirvana, PJ Harvey, and Jeff Buckley as her guides, Antonopoulos writes and records with a similar emotional rawness.

6 days ago | altpress.com | Neville Hardman

“My first show was in an art gallery with a backing track that I ran on my laptop,” Comet recalls, a couple of days following the release of her Quitter EP. “There was a Windows notification in the middle of my set. I’ve come a long way.” During her release show at NYC’s Mercury Lounge earlier this month, that observation carried depth and meaning. After pulling up to the 250-cap space in a limo, Comet echoed a lineage of ’90s heroes with unbound energy, gritty post-grunge, and conviction.

1 week ago | altpress.com | Neville Hardman

Oakland-bred artist King Isis grew up learning classical and jazz on their great-great-grandmother’s piano before shifting into grungier world-building. They’re only a couple of weeks away from their new SIRENITY EP, out June 13 via Dirty Hit/No Matter, and they’ve just shared another preview with the slow-burning alt-rock track “LATELY,” which was co-produced by Bartees Strange. ‘“LATELY’ is a cathartic release,” King Isis says.

1 week ago | altpress.com | Anna Zanes

“Heaven Is a Place On Earth” is more than Belinda Carlisle’s massive 1987 hit, or a key change that’ll go down in history. According to Sedona, the stage name of Rachel Stewart, it’s a theology that can be applied to life in 2025 — one that fuses whimsical otherworldliness with pragmatism and psychology. “Being a human is the closest we get to heaven. It's not something that comes after,” says the Los Angeles-based artist, who is also a part of the beloved collective Drugdealer.