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Jawdropped have announced the details of the first big step in their guaranteed ascent to the top, revealing everything you need to know about their debut album.

The record is set to be called ‘Secret To Spare’ and will be released on 18 September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback.

The band’s own Roman Zangari had this to say about what inspired him whilst writing the album:

I’m always writing based off of things that I hear, or something that happened to a friend. L.A. is this destination that so many people move to with a dream of having this exciting life in the arts,” Zangari adds. “There’s so many crazy people you meet across that spectrum of failure and success, and I’m really fascinated by those stories. But there’s a self-reflective level too, because we’re also playing that game. We’re no different than the failed actor that’s working at the bar.”

The artwork looks like this:

Whilst the tracklisting is a bit more like this:

1. The Line
2. Monday
3. Split Lip
4. Cellulite
5. High Beams
6. Cup
7. Smoglight
8. Pitch Black
9. Whiplash
10. Two

You can also check out a new taste of the album now in the form of ‘Split Lip’, which as bright and breezy a song as you’re going to hear all Summer. Soft patters of indie emo sentiment are mashed together with a shimmering Brit-pop spirit to create the sort of song that eases the senses and warms the heart.

Lyrically though, it’s a song that hits very close to home for the quartet, as Roman explains:

“It’s about being in a band and struggling to keep your shit in check. You spend your whole life as a musician striving for success and hoping to experience all these things that the four of us were experiencing for the first time. This song weighs out the excitement of that with the underwhelming reality of it all: we’re still broke, there’s no guarantee that any of this is going to lead to anything. How do you know that these decisions you’ve made are going to pan out in the future?”

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End Of Abyss, a rising name in Finland’s progressive metal scene, will unveil their debut album in October. While the band may be new to international audiences, its lineup features familiar faces from the Finnish metal world — including vocalist Mikko Herranen, known for his work across multiple bands and as a producer, and bassist Janne Koskenkorva, […]

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It’s been almost four years since Swedish Viking rowers Amon Amarth unleashed The Great Heathen Army, but they hardly sit idle. Now they approach a new way of songwriting on their first-ever acoustic excursion, “Uppha”. The single serves as the quiet moment to what lies ahead, before the fury of their next studio album, which according to the label they are currently working on.
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If you’re the right age, the world “Candlebox” brings up all kinds of indelible memories. If you’re too young, just know that Candlebox were a Seattle rock band who happened to catch on during the grunge explosion, even though they weren’t really a grunge band. They were one of the first acts who signed to Madonna’s Maverick label, and their self-titled 1993 debut spawned a ton of radio hits and went quadruple platinum. But they got a lot of backlash for riding the grunge wave, even though they never really tried to do that, and their subsequent records didn’t sell. Candlebox ultimately broke up and got back together, and they’re still a band today, but their name will always evoke a certain moment of rock ‘n’ roll excitement, confusion, and resentment. Now, Candlebox have a brand new Mountain Goats song named after them.

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Around the time that he formed the White Stripes, Jack White had a stint as a guitarist for the Go, a wooly and psychedelic Detroit garage-punk band. White was in the Go when they recorded their debut album Whatcha Doin’, which came out on Sub Pop in 1999. Shortly thereafter, White left the Go, and they recorded another album called Free Electricity. It never came out. But after 26 years on the shelf, Free Electricity will finally get a Sub Pop release later this year.

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I’m not sure any song this year has burrowed its way into my brain more effectively than “Monday,” the springtime offering from LA power-pop band Jawdropped. That song is catchy as hell, it moves with an irresistible momentum, and I love the noisy tension threaded into it, which neatly dovetails with the lyrics about delighted, anxious anticipation. It’s further elevated by the music video, a simple but effective clip that finds the four members of Jawdropped performing in front of windows in different rooms of a building. You know how you can be vaguely aware of a band and then one song comes along and snaps you into focus, and then you’re an enthusiastic fan? “Monday” was that song for me.

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Asher White doesn’t stay quiet for too long, and thank god for that. Last year she released her 16th album 8 Tips For Full Catastrophe Living, which was also her debut for Joyful Noise that earned her our Artist To Watch honor. Earlier this year the prolific indie artist covered Jessica Pratt’s entire debut LP, and now she’s returning with another record called Love Aggregates.

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(We venture off our usual beaten paths today with the following very engaging interview conducted by Comrade Aleks with a member of the Puerto Rican band Moths, whose progressive metal goes off in very interesting and often unexpected directions.) Things happen and it’s difficult to support each new release in time, but I believe that […]

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