Teen Suicide - It's The Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir The Honeypot (2016)

Genre: Lo-Fi / Noise Pop / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Pill Friends, Elvis Depressedly, Julia Brown
Track List:
- Living Proof
- The Big Joyous Celebration
- Alex
- Violets
- Obvious Love
- It's Just A Pop Song
- V.I.P.
- Wild Thing Runs Free
- Bright Blue Pickup Truck
- Big Mistake
- What You Want
- God
- Neighborhood Drug Dealer
- Have a Conversation
- Beauty
- Pavement
- America
- Devotion
- The Things I Love Are Killing Me
- Falling Out Of Love With Me
- I Don't Think It's Too Late
- Long Way Down
- My Little World
- The Hurricane
- The Stomach of the Earth
- If I Don't See You Before You Leave

Description:  Teen Suicide is another band from my home state of Maryland, so obviously I have to rep them and would highly advise you to purchase their album.  I mean get real, it's $5 for a digital copy of an album containing 26 super catchy noise pop songs.  Why wouldn't you do that?  And for $26 ($1 per song) you get a physical 2xLP and a Bonus EP cassette.  So peep this, and if you dig it than buy it!

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Karate - Studio Album Discography (1996 - 2007)

Genre: Indie / Post-Rock
Website: Facebook
For Fans Of: The Van Pelt, June of 44, Joan of Arc
Track List:

Karate (1996)
- Gasoline
- If You Can Hold Your Breath
- Trophy
- What Is Sleep
- ---
- Bad Tattoo
- Every Sister
- Bodies
- Caffeine Or Me?

In Place of Real Insight (1996)
- This, Plus Slow Song
- New Martini
- Wake Up, Decide
- It's 98 Stop
- New New
- The New Hangout Condition
- On Cutting
- Die Die
- Today or Tomorrow

The Bed is in the Ocean (1998)
- There Are Ghosts
- The Same Stars
- Diazapam
- The Last Wars
- Bass Sounds
- Up Nights
- Fatal Strategies
- Outside is the Drama
- Not to Call the Police

Unsolved (2000)
- Small Fires
- The Lived-But-Yet-Named
- Sever
- The Roots and the Ruins
- One Less Blues
- The Halo of the Strange
- The Angels Just Have to Show
- Number Six
- This Day Next Year

Some Boots (2002)
- Original Spies
- First Release
- Ice or Ground?
- South
- In Hundreds
- Airport
- Baby Teeth
- Corduroy
- Remain Relaxed

Pockets (2004)
- With Age
- Water
- "The State I'm In" AKA "Goode Buy from Cobbs Creek Park"
- Cacophony
- Alingual
- Tow Truck
- Pines
- Concrete

595 (Live Album) (2007)
- The Roots and the Ruins
- Airport
- In Hundreds
- Original Spies
- Number 6
- There Are Ghosts
- Sever
- Caffeine or Me?

Description:
Alright, so I noticed a lack of this band on a lot of other blogs that I frequent and for some reason getting a hold of their music is fairly difficult but I ended up getting my hands on all of their studio albums.  Hooray!  The bad part is it's a mixed batch on quality ranging from 320kbps to 160kbps but I'm honestly not sure if high quality releases of their earlier stuff even exists.  But if it does, I would be super stoked if someone sent it to me!  I'm also impartial to receiving any of their splits and EP's so send them my way if you have them.  Anyway, Karate was a super dope indie rock band that utilized a lot of blues and jazz influences in their songs that I think everyone needs to have and if you don't have them already you should be ashamed.  Oh, and a lot of the tracks aren't in the correct place so forgive me, but it's an easy enough fix.  Aaaaand some of the tracks aren't properly named, but dammit I'm sorry!  Enjoy guys!

Run River North - Drinking From a Salt Pond (2016)

Genre: Folk / Indie / Alternative Rock
Website: Homepage
For Fans Of: The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys
Track List:
- Intro (Funeral) Parade
- 29
- Run or Hide
- Can't Come Down
- Elam
- Ghost
- Pretender
- Anthony
- David Robinson
- Winter Wind

Description:
Run River North, formerly known as Monsters Calling Home, is an indie folk / alternative rock band from California.  This is the first release by these guys that I have listened to and it is one of the catchiest alternative rock albums I have listened to in a long time.  I mean literally every track is catchy as fuck and it's just a super fun album that really reminds me of old The Killers.  Or maybe new The Killers, I don't know I haven't listened to them in awhile.  Anyway, this is slightly different than what I usually post but I promise at least some of you will enjoy this like I am.

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Shonen Bat - Until Forever, On It Goes (2015)

Genre: Emo / Indie / Math Rock
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: The Van Pelt, Nai Harvest, Ulises Lima
Track List:
- down for life
- pugile
- 99,999
- broken
- shame
- what for
- carbon-copy dreams
- no cure
- bad character

Description:
Shonen bat is a 3 piece emo band from Malaga, Spain.  I had to go back for a second and re-type that because I typed everything in lowercase letters.  Thanks a lot, Shonen Bat (which is also supposed to be lower case but I DON'T CARE).  Anyway, these guys rule and have been out quality stuff for almost 5 years now and I think they have gone criminally unknown and are too under appreciated.  Citing influences such as Karate, The Van Pelt, June of 44, and Owls you can kind of get a grasp on where they are coming from musically.  If anything, they pulled their name from Paranoia Agent, so how can you not dig that?  Enjoy!

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Slingshot Dakota - Break (2016)

Genre: Indie / Emo / Punk
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Lemuria, Into It. Over It., P.S. Eliot
Track List:
- You
- Monocacy
- Lewlyweds
- Stay
- Doreen
- Paycheck
- Too Much
- Storytellers
- Break

Description:
Slingshot Dakota is a two-piece indie-punk band based out of Bethlehem, PA.  The lead singer, Carly Comando, has been gracing our ears with her beautifully sung vocals for a couple of years now and I'm super stoked to give this a listen.  Their Dreams are Bad is one of my favorite albums and I have been listening to it in the car getting pumped for this release.

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Into It. Over It. - Standards (2016)

Genre: Emo / Indie / Acoustic
Website: Myspace
For Fans Of: You Blew It!, Their / They're / There, Pet Symmetry
Track List:
- Open Casket
- Closing Argument
- No EQ
- Vis Major
- Your Lasting Image
- Old Lace & Ivory
- Adult Contempt
- Required Reading
- Bible Black
- Who Are You ≠ Where You Are
- Anesthetic
- The Circle of the Same Ideas

Description:
Into It. Over It. is the indie rock solo project of Chicago musician Evan Thomas Weiss.  It is considered one of the leading acts in the emo revival scene of the 2010's.  You may know his other projects as well, such as Their / They're / There alongside Mike Kinsella and Pet Symmetry with those dudes from Dowsing.  Anyway, check this out.

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Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (2015)

Genre: Indie / Folk / Acoustic
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Japanese Breakfast, Bon Iver, Daughter
Track List:
- Blacktop
- Sprained Ankle
- Brittle Boned
- Everybody Does
- Good News
- Something
- Rejoice
- Vessels
- Go Home

Description:
I actually got really uncomfortable with not writing something about this album after looking at it for the past hour or so.  I'm going to post a video of a live version of Rejoice which is my favorite song from the album.  Julien Baker is the epitome of writing sad songs about sad shit and being sad, and also death.  She really enjoys writing about death.  Or maybe she doesn't enjoy writing about death and it's the only thing she is familiar with.  I'm not too sure about that, but what I am sure about is that I missed out on getting one of the 100 pressed white vinyl records, I missed out on her album in it's entirety up until this point and I am vowing right now that I will never miss anything that this woman does ever again.  She's just amazing.  Watch the video, and the download link will be right below it!

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Shinobu - 10 Thermidor (2015)

Genre: Indie / Alternative / Punk
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Hard Girls, The Sidekicks, Cheap Girls
Track List:
- Untitled Michael Haneke Project
- 2Tone Tuesday
- The Void
- Culture, Inc.
- Violence House
- Jokes
- Melbourne Cup
- 9 Thermidor
- Back to the Void
- Hell Screens
- 10 Thermidor

Description:
Shinobu is an indie rock band from San Jose, California.  Members of Shinobu also play in bands like Bomb the Music Industry! and Classics of Love with are both pretty damn good bands.  These guys tour with Xiu Xiu and Andrew Jackson Jihad all of the time, so I guess they are in the same range as those guys.  Shinobu's 10 Thermidor is a great album, but I can't really speak on the rest of their material.  It seems like they classify themselves as an Indie Punk band but I really don't get that vibe on this album, I get more of an Indie and emo vibe from this release with a lot of alternative rock influences backing it up.  That being said, Jokes is pretty punk, and it's their best song on the album.  Anyway, if you haven't heard this yet then give it a download.

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Boyscott - Goose Bumps (2015)

Genre: Lo-Fi / Surf Rock / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Beach Fossils, Best Coast, Wavves
Track List:
- Sleepwalk
- Blonde Blood
- Nova Scotia 500
- Marco Polo
- Sinking Down
- R.I.P. Sophie Moore
- Killer Whale
- Lake House
- Embarrassingly Enough
- Sleepaway

Description:
Boyscott is a surf rock band coming out of Nashville, Tennessee that has peaked my interest far more than I expected.  I don't listen to surf rock, with the exception being the Beach Boys.  That's it.  It just isn't my cup of tea, as most of it seemed way too slow for my liking.  That is absolutely not the case with Boyscott and their latest LP, Goose Bumps.  Goose Bumps blends their songs between dual vocalists and unique instrumentation to bring one of the best albums I've ever heard to life.  Marco Polo being one of my favorite songs I have ever had the pleasure of listening to, based purely on the fact that the instrumentation is crazy fun to hear.  I can't really find too much information on them, but apparently they are on tour right now so if you can figure out where they will be playing I would recommend that you check them out.

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Big Awesome - Party On (2015)

Genre: Emo / Post-Hardcore / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Braid, The Promise Ring, Joyce Manor
Track List:
- What Grows up Must Get Down
- Hooper
- Wolf
- Foliage
- Pay Attention
- To Live and Die in the Dirty South
- Party On
- Warning
- Birdfeeder Pt. II The Reckoning
- Wookie Baylock

Description:
First of let me start by saying that the vinyl record for Party On has one of the coolest designs I have ever seen.  I absolutely fucking love it.  As for the record itself? It's awesome.  Big Awesome is the truest form of emo revival and at it's best for sure.  Party On is extremely guitar driven, and favors instrumentation in general but the vocals are really just an added bonus.  Lot's of super funky basslines and dope melodic hooks really drew me in.  Overall, Party On is a super catchy album that deserves your attention.

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Sioux Falls - Rot Forever (2016)

Genre: Post-Punk / Emo / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Pinegrove, Weatherbox, Two Humans
Track List:
- 3fast
- Dom
- Chain of Lakes
- Past Tense
- Try
- In Case It Gets Lost
- Practice Space
- Dinosaur Dying
- Copy/Paste
- San Francisco Earthquake
- Crushed
- Soaked In Sleep
- McConoughey
- Your Name's Not Ned
- If You Let It
- The Winner

Description:
Already so I really need to start organizing my top 10 of 2016 list, because there is way too much good shit coming out at an alarming rate and Sioux Falls latest LP, Rot Forever, is apart of that.  What is better than a regular 10 track album with every song being a gem? A 16 track album with every song being a gem.  That was a rhetorical question.  Fans of Pinegrove will find a home listening to Sioux Falls, but while their styles are similar you can still find something new in each of them.  Lo-Fi indie rock albums with a lot of post punk and emo influences seem to be really, really popular these last few years and you won't catch me complaining one bit.  So check 'em out and show them some love if you enjoy their craft.  I'm just typing now to pass time while this 150mb album uploads to my mediafire account, so yeah.  Yup.  Any day now.  Aaaannndddd, it's done.  Have fun!

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This Town Needs Guns - 13.0.0.0.0 (2013)

Genre: Math Rock / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Look Mexico, Colour, Tera Melos
Track List:
- Cat Fantastic
- Havoc in the Forum
- Left Aligned
- In The Branches of Yggdrasil
- I'll Take the Minute Snake
- 2 Birds, 1 Stone And An Empty Stomach
- Nice Riff, Clichard
- Triptych
- Pygmy Polygamy
- A Different Kind of Tall (small)
- +3 Awesomeness Repels Water
- 13.0.0.0.1

Description:
TTNG is This Town Needs Guns, they just switched to the acronym for some reason.  Anyway, everyone knows this guys.  13.0.0.0.0 is a great album, just not as good as Animals which I assumed everyone already had.  So I'm posting this instead.  Yep.  Enjoy!

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Pinegrove - Cardinal (2016)

Genre: Alternative / Emo / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Elliott Smith, Alex G, Owen
Track List:
- Old Friends
- Cadmium
- Then Again
- Aphasia
- Visiting
- Waveform
- Size of the Moon
- New Friends

Description:
Pinegrove is a five-piece alternative rock / emo band out of Montclair, New Jersey.  Cardinal is a well recorded and well executed album that really shows why this band was thrust into their recent success.  These guys play some seriously relaxing and enjoyable music that I imagine myself listening to on the docks, drinking my coffee and smoking my cigarette and just staring off into the distance.  It's just a great listen, and can put you in many different moods depending on which song you have playing at the time.  Pinegrove has pulled through early in the year and just might make my top 10 (which is filling up way too quickly, might I add) after a few more listens so I can really appreciate the work that they put into it.

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Souvenirs - You, Fear and Me (2014)

Genre: Emo / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Braid, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral
Track List:
- Repetition
- A Mile High
- Gradient
- You, Fear and Me
- Shake
- Drag Me Under
- Twist
- Linden Ave
- Worth It
- Swan
- Go and Stay Gone

Description:
Souvenirs is a great example of an emo band with excellent songwriting, huge hooks, and overall just purely infectious music.  Every song on You, Fear and Me is catchy as fuck and totally caught me off guard for a band I've never heard of before an hour ago.  From the moment you hit the play button, you catch a glimpse of what 90s emo really was like back then, and what it sounds like today.  I can't get enough of these guys, and I'm going to get their past releases to enjoy because they are THAT good.  2 years man, 2 years I have been missing out on You, Fear and Me.  Don't be like me, download this album and enjoy some dope ass tunes.

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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

Genre: Indie / Folk
Website: Facebook
For Fans Of: Jeff Mangum
Track List:
- King of Carrot Flowers Part 1
- King of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Two-Headed Boy
- The Fool
- Holland, 1945
- Communist Daughter
- Oh Comely
- Ghost
- Untitled
- Two-Headed Boy Part 2

Description:
I'm not even going to describe this band.  You should be ashamed if you don't have this.  I will say this though, I listen to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Oh Comely at least 3-5 times a day.

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Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Genre: Indie / Folk / Emo
Website: Homepage
For Fans Of: Any Conor Oberst Project, Cursive, Elliott Smith
Track List:
- At The Bottom Of Everything
- We Are Nowhere And It's Now
- Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)
- Lua
- Train Under Water
- First Day Of My Life
- Another Travelin' Song
- Landlocked Blues
- Poison Oak
- Road To Joy

Description:
If you have to have one album by Bright Eyes, it should be "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" for multiple reasons.  The trembling despair you can hear in his voice, the beautiful instrumentals that coerce you deeper and deeper into one of the greatest things you will ever hear in your life.  Conor Oberst is a genius, and I don't think anyone can debate otherwise.  I get rid of music and bring new music onto my laptop all the time, but "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" and "Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground " will always have a place in my music folder.  Seriously, this is a must have album even if you don't "get" Bright Eyes.

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Bicycle Sunday - Pale Marble Movie (2016)

Genre: Emo / Indie
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Death Cab For Cutie, Mineral, The Appleseed Cast
Track List:
- A Resounding Sense of Stability
- Electricity Everywhere
- Theme From "Pacific Radio Fire"
- I Won't
- An Infinite Supply of 35mm Film
- Home Could be Anywhere
- Pacific Radio Fire
- Winter Rug
- The Greyhound Tragedy
- Your Father Died This Afternoon

Description:
Previously known as Boleyn, the brainchild of Joe McAndrew, Bicycle Sunday brings a nice blend of Death Cab For Cutie meets Mineral and plays each others songs for 37 minutes.  This is an album I had no idea was even coming out, and that is precisely because I had no idea Bicycle Sunday even existed until today.  The instrumentation is a sort of melodic and melancholy sound that sort of just leaves you wondering until the beautiful lyricism and vocal talents of Joe McAndrew kick in to fulfill your every desire.  That sounded weird.  Looks like I just found another album that will be in my top 10 for 2016.  Stoked, and you should get stoked too and download this.

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Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp (2016)

Genre: Experimental / Indie / Pop
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Porches, Mitski, Krill
Track List:
- In Heaven
- The Woman That Loves You
- Rugged Country
- Everybody Wants to Love You
- Psychopomp
- Jane Cum
- Heft
- Moon on the Bath
- Triple 7

Description:
Michelle Zauner, who you may know from Little Big League has outdone herself and her peers.  Musically, this is the single greatest thing I have heard involving her.  A truly emotional roller coaster that leaves you speechless during the journey, and nearly breathless by the destination.  An album dedicated to her mother, you almost expect what would be coming.  Japanese Breakfast proves that the only thing you should expect is the unexpected.  This is the soundtrack to mourning, every song taking you further and further into the life of the lost, but at the end shines a light that is less overbearing and more welcoming than anything.  Japanese Breakfast's "Psychopomp" is the front runner for album of the year for me, and even though we are only in February, I can't imagine this leaving my top 5 for the year anytime soon.  Please check them out, and purchase whatever you can to support them.

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Rainbow Tornado - Fancy Cookies (2007)

Genre: Emo / Indie
Website: Myspace
For Fans Of: Oh My God Elephant, Deer Friends, Clarissa Explains It All
Track List:
- Welcome To The Neighborhood
- Here's The Local Laundromat
- I Only Have Four Quarters For You
- Palmerade
- Are You For Spiritual?
- Gregge Bergman
- Ranch Dressing
- Pete
- Stop Shaking Your Leg
- Untitled 01
- Untitled 02

Description:
I pride myself on finding various gems roaming around on the interwebz, and somehow this one just flew right under the fucking radar.  Rainbow Tornado, previously known as Oh My God Elephant, are like Cap'n Jazz reincarnated, yes, the musicianship is that good.  Okay, maybe not that good, but real fucking good.  Look, I'm not going to argue with you anymore.  Download and enjoy, you will regret it if you don't.

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Porches - Pool (2016)

Genre: Lo-Fi / Indie / Pop
Website: Bandcamp
For Fans Of: LVL UP, Pile, Eskimeaux
Track List:
- Underwater
- Braid
- Be Apart
- Mood
- Hour
- Even the Shadow
- Pool
- Glow
- Car
- Shaver
- Shape
- Security

Description:
Lot's and lot's of synthesizers and guitar pop that sounds like it could be the soundtrack for when you are lucid dreaming and acid tripping simultaneously.  Is that even possible?  Guess I'll have to find out to see if their is any truth to my description of Porches new LP, "Pool".  Every song on here sounds like a continuation of the previous one, and it could go on and on for an eternity and I wouldn't be mad.  It's too relaxing to get mad.  If you just want to chill out and listen to your dreams be recited back to you via music, then give this a download and enjoy your nap.

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