On this week’s show: Jangly Spanish (Aurora Roja), British (Blueboy) and American (Peel Dream Magazine, Creative Writing) guitars. Indie rock from Italy (Lac Observation), minimal pop from France (Vérité Synthétique), and some more German punk from the fertile Berlin scene (BIG GAINER). Plus skittering/harmonious pop from St. Louis (Shy Boys), garage rock from Boston (Nervous Eaters) and some UK DIY pop from one of the Gob Nation collective (Lo and Behold).

Can’t wait to hear more from your favorites? Check out their Bandcamps, and maybe throw a little $ their way…

PLAYLIST:

Shy Boys – Upperclassmen
https://shyboys.bandcamp.com/album/upperclassmen

Peel Dream Magazine – Venus In Nadir
https://peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com/album/taurus

Aurora Roja – Mercedes
https://auroraroja.bandcamp.com/album/aurora-roja-2

Creative Writing – Memory Light
https://creativewriting.bandcamp.com/album/baby-did-this

Blueboy – Cloud Nine
https://blueboy.bandcamp.com/album/a-life-in-numbers

Optic Sink – Don’t Look Down
https://opticsink.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-number

BIG GAINER – Tikibars
https://biggainerband.bandcamp.com/album/big-gainer

Piso Franco – ex-post
https://flexidiscos.bandcamp.com/album/piso-franco

Vérité Synthétique – Pencil Stories
https://lafuiterecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-its-raining

Lo and Behold – An Idiot’s Grin
https://gobnation.bandcamp.com/album/onward-journey

Silkworm – Developer (demo)
https://skwm.bandcamp.com/album/developer-demos

Lac Observation – Greenland Myth/Birch Canoe
https://almosthalloweentimerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-city-of-gandharvas

Nervous Eaters – No More Idols
https://nervouseaters.bandcamp.com/album/mans-got-a-right-single

Stereolab – Fed Up With Your Job
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/fed-up-with-your-job-constant-and-uniform-movement-unknown

On this week’s show: NYC bedroom pop (THEEE KEVIN ALVIR), bouncy jangle from Belfast (Neil Brogan) and chugging garage-pop from Richmond, VA (Added Dimensions). Aussie minimalism (Hydroplane), German punk (Alibi), expansive British electro-pop (LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR) and Indonesian guitar pop from gentle (Monetaries) to crashing (Grrrl Gang). Plus the long-awaited return of Boston’s Strange Passage!

Head on down to the links below for more music from every artist showcased this week…

PLAYLIST:

Strange Passage – Hunter’s Fancy
https://strangepassage.bandcamp.com/album/a-folded-sky

Monetaries – Beauty Manipulator
https://forfunn1.bandcamp.com/album/away-from-world

Neil Brogan – Nagging Doubt?
https://neilbrogan.bandcamp.com/track/nagging-doubt

THEEE KEVIN ALVIR – ME vs. COCKROACH
https://thelilhospital.bandcamp.com/album/me-sensitive-ep

Uncomfortable Police – Hazmat Kat
https://uncomfortablepolice.bandcamp.com/album/hazmat-kat

Added Dimensions – Self Improve
https://youtu.be/a3c-h–HZcg

LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR – There’s More to Life Than Crooks
https://lightninginatwilighthour.bandcamp.com/album/theres-more-to-life-than-crooks

Algae Dust – Everything That’s True
https://algaedust.bandcamp.com/album/rearranging

Mines – Breathe Deep
https://minesband17.bandcamp.com/album/cold-lost

Hydroplane – Houdini’s Plane
https://hydroplaneband.bandcamp.com/album/a-place-in-my-memory-is-all-i-have-to-claim

Grrrl Gang – O, My Love
https://grrrlgang.bandcamp.com/track/o-my-love

Night Court – Noisemaker
https://nightcourtpunk.bandcamp.com/album/nervous-birds-lp

Alibi – Attitüde
https://flennen.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-4

Nape Neck – The Shallowest End
https://napeneck.bandcamp.com/album/the-shallowest-end

pôt-pot – 22° Halo
https://potpot.bandcamp.com/album/warsaw-480km

Peter Peter Hughes – Rising Tide
https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues