The Lacking Permanence

Bold effort from this young musician, this set of introspective songs shows great skill and promise.

Some very young Canadians show plenty of promos with this pleasantly bratty set of indie guitar rock.

Hard-rocking, beer-chugging, smoke-breaking anthems from this Cleveland couple. They can also veer into weird and spooky.

In times fraught with misinformation, Ty Richards implores you to seek the truth.

Somewhere beyond easy genres is this woozy mix of indie soul and post-rock complication.

Another one-man rock act that wears its influences on its sleeve, but it’s well done so don’t take that as a complaint. Highly political.

A brilliant collection of indie pop gems, featuring the sounds and hooks that made “alternative music” so great in the first place.

La Luz takes everything that’s great about surf rock and dreamy girl vocals, gives it a new coat of paint, fills it with high-octane, and dares you to keep up.

King Tuff clearly has a rock and roll heart, with the sort of grandiose expression that has a southern blues charm.

I really love Khruangbin, despite the pronounciation quandary they plunge me into whenever I play one of their songs.