Dirty on Purpose's limited edition double, gatefold vinyl is in stores today. It features the first vinyl pressing of 2006 debut album “Hallelujah Sirens”  and the 2004 EP "Sleep Late for a Better Tomorrow," along with new music “These Days Were For Us,” which is now streaming at Spotify and Apple Music. About These Days Were For Us: These Days was a song we played live a lot during the last year or so of the band. We demoed it and intended to put it on our next record, but we broke up and it never got a real recording, until […]

Brooklyn Vegan has shared the lost live video for Dirty on Purpose’s “Car No Driver”. Filmed in 2006, it features some familiar faces. Watch and read about it BV. Debut album Hallelujah Sirens and EP Sleep Late for a Better Tomorrow is available for the first time on vinyl. BV says they are “highly underrated 2000s-era shoegazey Brooklyn indie rock band” . “Car No Driver” performed live by Dirty on Purpose on May 13, 2006 on Division St, New York, NY. Directed by Brendan Colthurst The shoot was a co-production between Disposable Television and Experimental Troupe Comedy (ETC). Produced by […]

dust announce their debut album Sky Is Falling for digital release on October 10th sharing brand new offering Drawbacks today. Drawbacks pummels with textured chord progressions and abrasive lyrics. Justin Teale’s words of personal frustration and isolation that offer glimpses of love and hope; Kye Cherry’s frenetic drum backing and Liam Smith’s persistent bass groove bolsters Gabe Stove’s guitar and Adam Ridgway’s woozy saxophone from gust to boiling point. Written wholly collaboratively, bleeding between anguish and desperation Drawbacks is dust in full force. Sky is Falling is out digitally on October 10th and clear vinyl in stores November 15th. A limited edition splatter vinyl is […]

Today, Dirty on Purpose announces the release of limited edition, gatefold vinyl feturing their debut album Hallelujah Sirens and EP Sleep Late for a Better Tomorrow. Available for pre-order now, the remastered audio double "seaweed" color, gatefold vinyl will be in stores September 5th, 2025. With double sided 12" x 24" poster and collage printed inner sleeves, the release is limited to 250 copies. Dirty on Purpose, the shoegazer-inspired indie rock band from early 2000s New York, has been described by Pitchfork as "blurry, constantly in motion," and their sound evoking bands like Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, and the Sundays. Formed […]

Singaporean indiepop band Blush release their second album Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever digitally today. This record finds Blush on a mission to create pristine pop that explores life’s complex emotions. With intricately crafted compositions that swirl between dreamscapes and erratic noise, the four-piece turn heartbreak into something deceptively satisfying. Blush is also sharing  an analog visual for album track "Ultrablue!", which features lyrics imposed over candid VHS footage of Blush's Soffi Peters and Darell Laser mirroring the song’s lyrical theme of missed connections on the streets of Tokyo. "Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever" is out digitally today and pink […]

"A balance between blissful dream-pop and noise-addled heartache,' FLOOD MAGAZINE Singaporean dreampop group Blush announce their signing to Kanine Records and share the single/video “X My Heart” with a first listen at Flood Magazine today. The track is a slice of undeniably sunny guitar pop that subverts the melancholy message encapsulated in the line “cross my heart and I hope to die in this sick sad world that’s never mine." As the video suggests, it's for the lovesick, delusional & obsessed. The album, "Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever", is out digitally August 1st and available to pre-order on pink vinyl […]

Grizzly Bear announced their first shows since 2019. Grizzly Bear are reissuing Veckatiment (on magenta vinyl), Shields (on translucent vinyl), Yellow House (on cream white vinyl), and Painted Ruins (on oxblood vinyl).  Horn of Plenty vinyl is available below. Grizzly Bear Dates Mon, Oct 13 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Tue, Oct 14 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Thu, Oct 16 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Fri, Oct 17 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Sat, Oct 18 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Sat, Nov 8 Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed (Indoors) Sun, Nov 9 Chicago, IL @ The Salt […]

Diary's new single "Stevie" is streaming today. The video was shot in the Berkshires during a hot, sweaty weekend. Directed by Jane Burns. "Lyrically, the song drifts through the strange intimacy that can grow through the algorithms—how a face, a stack of books, or a record sleeve glimpsed online can spiral into a fantasy. It’s about longing for someone you don’t know and the sweet ache of wanting to believe in a constructed connection." - DIARY Diary is on tour in the UK. May 01 - The Retro, Manchester UK Tix May 02 - Wax Bar (DJ Set) - Leeds, […]