Izzy Hagerup is reaching for a sensation, a thing that she can’t shake out of her head, an obsession with the shape of music, of her music, of just the right note that clicks the right emotion or feel in her body and soul. It’s something that can’t really be measured.

Post-Trash’s Khagan Aslanov speaks with analog hardware genius Afrorack about his earliest musical curiosities, making DIY instructional videos for Arturia electronics, building his improvised live sets in real time, and what comes next.

Michelangelo Dying is a strong collection of memory and hurt. It’s a reminder to dance despite the sorrow. Cate Le Bon has a gift of cutting through the crap, delivering a record that is at once pure and tender, yet brutally honest and descriptive of the humiliation and joy of falling in (and out) of love.

I’m Nice Now, Upchuck’s first album with the British label Domino, carries all the same fierce rage as their earlier projects with newer tricks up their sleeve. It makes you wanna get up, freak out, and scream with them.

Early New York Silver is a collaboration between Lee Ranaldo and Michael Vallera. Consisting of two tracks and lasting approximately 45 minutes, it is based on a set of performances recorded in July 2022 as part of a series curated by musician David Watson. Ranaldo and Vallera spoke to Post-Trash about how their collaboration and album came together.

Sarah Everton (Telepathic, Blowdryer) expands Added Dimension’s world while still residing in the realm of lo-fi tape recordings, leaning into brighter hooks and harmonies, a garage punk record that plays it loose while also paying attention to the finer details.

Saia Kuli, also known as Guitar, has been playing in the Portland, Oregon indie and DIY scenes for over a decade. Post-Trash’s John Glab spoke with Kuli in advance of the new Guitar record about his writing process, regional sounds, and inspiration in the mundane.

On LOTTO, Philadelphia’s underground savants they are gutting a body of water tackle our current dystopia in an unencumbered analog masterpiece with some of the band’s most compelling conceptual work, writing, and intensely memorable riffs.

Dragnet Reigns continues the intriguing pursuit of entertaining-yet-somewhat-disturbing records that Dragnet revel in releasing upon the world, and the little new edges and colors add welcome intrigue. 

On Golden Caravan, Clifford presents the best of what Boston DIY has to offer. Post-Trash’s Giliann Karon chats with Clifford’s Miles Chandler about their regional influences, DIY spirit, and dialing in their excellent new record Golden Caravan.

Post-Trash’s Karina Teichert caught the legendary glam pop duo Sparks at The Tabernacle in Atlanta on their latest tour. Read their thoughts on Sparks’ one-act show and a couple photos from the night.

Across A Violet Pasture returns us directly back to Greg Jamie’s signature folk depth, a sound both of the natural world yet softly surreal. There’s a drift and a psychedelic fog to it all, but it’s focused and clear, with attention to textural detail and atmospheric resonance.

Caution is equal parts Nora Button and Cash Langdon. The duo’s punk potpourri includes elements of scuzzy electronics, pop songwriting, and hazy shoegaze. Today we’re thrilled to premiere the riff-heavy lead single from Caution’s upcoming record Peripheral Vision.

You Left Us In the Spring is a raw and captivating portrait of the mind wracked by grief. It's real and it's visceral. Sometimes haunting, other times head-bangingly catchy, but always beautiful in its technical brilliance and sincerity.

Nape Neck’s latest is entrancing, each song’s rhythm and gibberish ghoulishness offering a deeper look into this new world, this new era of no wave music. The songs on The Shallowest End lose control and give way to an abundance of purely human sound. Is The Shallowest End about the absence of control, or the overarching omnipotence of it? 

Sydney Salk’s “Various Artists” returns to round up some of summer 2025’s best compilations and the causes they support, with choice picks from Tlooth, Kilynn Lunsford, Added Dimensions, The Wrong Sky, and Chaos International.

Post-Trash’s Kurt Orzeck sits down with legendary Scratch Acid guitarist Brett Bradford talks the band’s early days, his introduction to punk, his current band Suckling, and offers exclusive shots from early Scratch Acid performances.

Cameron Wisch is something of an indie rock veteran. Three years after the release of Dust Star’s first LP, he’s back with a new outfit, Soft Surface. Blue Dream recalls an era of guitar music when you didn’t have to hide sincerity behind irony.

Fans of gentle cynicism and riot grrl sensibility are in for a treat with the second album from Glasgow’s quirky punk outfit Dancer. They escape the second album slump, polishing their sound and keeping with the scrappy tongue-in-cheek nature and nostalgia that makes them such a one-of-a-kind group

Taurus is a writerly album. Although many individual tracks sport repetitive lyrics, these repetitions work together to diverge from pattern, creating rich micro-narratives and character studies. For an album made up of outtakes, Taurus absolutely speaks for itself.

Philadelphia’s Snoozer make classic indie rock: catchy, quick, and immediate. Brothers Tom and Mike Kelly are sharing “Just Sayin’,” the lead single from Snoozer’s Born Losers Records debut Little Giants.

Irk are here to pester us with the truth that fear-inducing art forms make us feel alive more than any other varieties. The Seeing House is proof positive that fear, particularly fear of the unknown, cannot be rinsed off after a person’s interaction with a piece of art is complete.

Automatic’s music smuggles in their politics through satirical and incisive lyrics, nod-along grooves, hip-shaking beats, and catchy choruses. Post-Trash’s Benji Heywood chats with the LA-based electro-kraut three piece about everyday resistance and their new record Is It Now?

Technopolice’s debut album, Chien De La Chasse embodies the energy of a dance hall with wooden floors where everybody’s feet can’t stop moving. The Marseille-based band’s punk-garage and gritty sound infusion is fast paced, dynamic, and will make you want to cut rug.

Phil Spector’s Gun blend their penchant for in-your-face immediacy and late-70s riffage that’s been passed through one of those everything-shredders at a recycling plant with a renewed urgency and a surprisingly big pinch of real tenderness. Today, Post-Trash is thrilled to premiere Another Side Of…, the latest full length from the Philadelphia outfit.

Due out on October 17th via Feel It Records, Citric Dummies’ "Split With Turnstile is brash and hilarious, overloaded with both punchlines and riffs, propulsive energy and beer guzzling joyfulness. These are concerning times and a little irreverence goes a long way.