The New Rock Generation - August 2026
The New Rock Generation is back and this month it’s gloriously all over the place.
Featuring RxGhost, TV Pins, Whisper Doll, Post Sex Nachos, The Falls, Daisychain, Porch Light, The Paranoyds, Frederik Wessberg, BONE-IDLE, New Rationals, Baby Snakes & The Electric Co., Mustard Service, The Certs, DD Island, Banda AL9, CASCADES, Leon III, Young Martyrs and Some Velvet Morning
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RxGhost - Subway
There's something wonderfully prickly about Subway. All swirling guitars, driving bass and that feeling of being watched from the other side of the carriage. I love how RxGhost turn fearmongering into something almost confrontationally catchy: "You try to act so brave / but you’re afraid of the subway".
It's danger pop with an actual point to make, and it’s the first taste of Upkeep, due this fall on vinyl and cassette.
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TV Pins - Version of Love
Version of Love has absolutely no patience for someone else's narrow definition of how love is supposed to look and honestly, good. "For all the colours of the rainbow" sits right at the heart of this bright, harmonised alt-rock anthem, while that wonderfully irritated "I’m f-f-fricking bored" gives it some bite.
The first taste of TV Pins' forthcoming self-released EP, it feels like a song asking you to wake up and make a little more room for people.
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Whisper Doll - Bluebells
Bluebells feels like finding a little patch of sunlight after spending too long inside your own head. Fiona Tagami sings about bluebells growing through her window and through her mind, turning the song into something tenderly tangled between heartbreak, home and wanting to be understood.
It's a gorgeous little glimpse of Lucky Clover, Whisper Doll's second album, arriving October 2 via Take Care Records.
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Post Sex Nachos - All For You
Photo credit: Sophia Bianco
I have a soft spot for songs that can make homesickness sound funny, painfully ordinary and completely devastating at the same time. All For You misses Costco runs, IHOP dates, hands through hair and simply waking up beside the person you love.
Suddenly touring the world doesn't sound quite as glamorous. From Big Bad, out September 18, it's a very human reminder that sometimes the life you're chasing is the one you're desperate to get back home to.
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The Falls - Loaded Gun
Loaded Gun comes at you with the feeling of a mistake you can already hear catching up from behind. The Falls turn the idea of a bullet already sitting in the chamber into a song about toxic relationships, guilt and having nowhere left to run: "You always try to leave your problems behind / But they always seem to catch you up again".
It's the darker centrepiece of their upcoming EP Would You Do It All Over Again, out September 18 via Revo Pro, and it hits like the moment the escape route disappears.
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Daisychain - Yeah
Photo credit: Vicki Holda
Sometimes the correct response to a miserable world is simply: Yeah. Whatever. Turn the amp up.
Daisychain’s Yeah has that cheeky, scorched-earth energy, throwing 70s rock swagger, grunge grit and a big dose of "I'm not letting this ruin my day" into the same room.
I love the idea of "airing your sht out" as a songwriting philosophy and after the doom and gloom, this feels like opening the windows and making some beautiful noise.
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Porch Light - Arctic
Photo Credit: Sawyer Brice
Arctic sounds like wanting something you’re not sure you're allowed to want. The lyrics keep tightening the knot - "I need more" - while the story underneath is painfully simple: you can pour everything into a relationship and still feel like something essential is missing.
Written during a winter cabin stay in northern Minnesota, it's Porch Light at their most restless and exposed, and a promising first taste of their debut album, due in 2026.
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The Paranoyds - Girls Like Me
I really like how Girls Like Me refuses to tidy itself up. "Maybe this, that / Maybe nothing" becomes a little mantra for uncertainty, daydreaming and doing things your own way, while the song keeps slipping between escape and reality.
Taken from Late Nighter, The Paranoyds' first new EP in nearly three years and that scruffy blend of garage rock, fuzz-pop and lo-fi punk still feels gloriously incapable of sitting still.
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Frederik Wessberg - Ripples
There's something very human about asking, "Have I gotten slow and redundant now?" and then answering yourself with a determined "No, I am here to stay".
Ripples turns that little existential wobble into energetic pop-rock, with self-doubt gradually giving way to defiance. I especially love the image of turning ripples into waves. Ιt’s a simple idea, but here it feels like Wessberg talking himself back into believing his own voice.
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Bone-Idle - Liquorice
Liquorice sounds like the musical equivalent of having one of those days where everything is annoying, except underneath the irritation is something much heavier you haven’t quite figured out how to put down.
Bone-Idle, let that frustration swell into sprawling guitars, rumbling bass and a wonderfully volcanic kind of grunge. It's angry at the slow walkers, the world, and probably the side of the bed you just stubbed your toe on, but mostly, it's wrestling with the fact that some things simply refuse to change.
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New Rationals - The What For
There's a nice tension in The What For: the melodic side pulls you in, while the heavier rhythmic backbone keeps things from becoming too comfortable. New Rationals leave plenty of space for the guitars and atmosphere to do their thing, giving this indie-rock single a sense of movement without overcomplicating it.
Sometimes a song doesn't need to explain itself too much; it just needs to hit that sweet spot between melody and weight.
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Baby Snakes & The Electric Co. - Dark Horse
Photo Credit: Will Von Bolton
Dark Horse has that stubborn optimism I can get behind: hit the gas, drive through the fire, and figure out what's waiting on the other side. Born from a melody hummed in the shower and turned into a song in just a few days, it carries that live-in-the-room immediacy all the way through.
The first taste of Ouroboros, out October 23 via Spaceflight Records, feels less like a victory lap than someone choosing, very deliberately, to keep moving.
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Mustard Service - Sharks
I love when a band can take something as ridiculous as a falling-coconut fact and somehow turn it into a song about fear, projection and human nature.
Sharks swims through breezy indie grooves while asking why we insist on turning everything unfamiliar into a monster. "You're only human" lands differently once you realise the song isn't really about sharks at all; it’s about how quickly fear writes its own story.
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The Certs - LUNA
LUNA carries its message without turning it into a lecture. Propulsive drums and melodic guitars give the song plenty of forward motion, while its core idea is beautifully simple: when things get dark, somebody else is out there feeling it too.
There's something comforting in a rock song that doesn't promise to fix everything. It just reminds you that you don’t have to face it alone.
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DD Island - Setting Sun
Setting Sun feels made for that strange little moment when the day is ending and you suddenly realise you’re not quite the person who started it. DD Island wrap nostalgia and longing in twangy psych-rock, with that fading-sun imagery sitting perfectly inside their dusty, analog sound.
It's the title track of their debut album Setting Sun, a record born on the road, in rehearsal rooms and in a van called Betty, which is honestly exactly how I want an indie-rock story to begin.
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Banda AL9 - Morning Star
Photo credit: Serginho Massa
Oh, this one is pure sunshine. Morning Star has absolutely no interest in pretending to be miserable: the sun is shining, birds are singing, flowers are in your hair and somebody has apparently made happiness come back into the room.
It's gloriously uncomplicated power pop, the sort of song that can sneak into your day and make everything feel about 12% brighter. From Hey! Hey! We’re Banda AL9, out now via Wicked Cool Records, and yes, I will happily take another chorus.
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CASCADES - in moments
Photo credit: Errol Colandro
in moments feels like being pulled underwater and then suddenly remembering how to breathe. Cascades move beautifully between crushing guitars and quieter spaces, but the lyrics are where the song really gets me: "the moment I lost everything / is the moment I awoke".
The first release from liminality, out September 25 via Many Hats Endeavors, and it doesn't promise an easy way out. It finds something strangely powerful in surviving the dark.
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Leon III - INVISIBLE INK
Photo Credit: Sean Mathis
There's something delightfully unhinged about Invisible Ink. It starts with "Trying to smuggle the sunshine / past the light of one billion stars" and somehow ends up with falcons taking over clocks, which is exactly the kind of lyrical detour I want from psychedelic rock.
The song's journey from a steady groove into big, cathartic rock makes it feel like Leon III are slowly opening trapdoors beneath the song, and Candy Cigarettes, out September 18, promises plenty more of them.
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Young Martyrs - Seventeen
Seventeen asks a brutal question: do you actually miss someone, or do you miss the person you were when you were with them? I love that Young Martyrs don't try to untangle the two. They let nostalgia stay messy, bittersweet and a little impossible.
Taken from Might Just Be Enough, arriving August 21 via Honey Badger Records, it feels like finding an old photograph and suddenly remembering an entire version of yourself.
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Some Velvet Morning - Tell The Summer Hang On
Photo credit: Paul Tunkin
This is made for windows down, warm air, nowhere to be. Some Velvet Morning's Tell The Summer Hang On is pure summer-banger territory, wrapping big melodies and uplifting rock in that slightly aching feeling that the best days are always moving too quickly.
The title track of their fifth album, Tell The Summer Hang On, is a very convincing argument for squeezing every last drop out of the season, preferably with the volume irresponsibly high.
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About Eugenia Roditis
Eugenia's passion for music was ignited from an early age as she grew up in a family of musicians. She loves attending concerts and festivals, while constantly seeking fresh and exciting new artists across diverse genres. Eugenia joined the MusicnGear team in 2012.
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