Bratakus' first release this year is the single 'Tonight', a raw rock torpedo mixed with a heart attack of metallic garage and punk vocals, where the electrification sweats drops of blood and the lyrics sweat emotional stress #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/02/brat...

The post-punk orchestrated by Holly Head on their latest single, ‘No Country Is An Island’, via Akoustik Anarkhy, shoots down that punk-spirited rock, which lets off steam with that fuzz that licks the wounds of the quartet #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/02/holl...

Another single from ugly ozo, ‘hi, how are you?’, via REX RECS, and another nuclear bomb of electrified erogenous dream-pop, overwhelming punk and stoner rock that hits with all the force of the law it cordially breaks #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/02/ugly...

Suitor debuts for Feel It Records with the single 'Factory', ahead of their album, out on March 20, activating that post-punk sound with an aura of cloudy dream pop and psychedelic distortion, in which the 60s take over their body movements #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/02/suit...

Sparkler exude dream-pop with warm summery undertones in the first single, 'Postal' and where their defining San Diego truegaze is accompanied by sweet reverberating melodies and a pleasant wall of noise #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/02/spar...

Private Wives' second album, “Three Of Swords”, via Farmer & The Owl, consummates their riot grrrl rock, garage, and vocal punk, while feed the heartfelt hallucinations with badly wounded grunge, deafening screams, and instrumental violence #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/02/priv...

Margaritas Podridas deliver maximum damage in their latest single, 'Rompecabezas', a prelude to their debut album for Hopeless Records, “Metales Pesados,” 6/3, in which hardcore and grunge don't shy away from vocal punk #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/marg...

After 10 years away from the stage, Ty Segall & The Muggers make their live debut with the LP “Live” “At” ‘The’ “BBC”, via Drag City Records, an ode to that past of categorical rock, catatonic distortions, perennial rhythms, and immortal riffs #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/ty-s...

Stuck indulge in 80s sci-fi movie post-punk in ‘Instakill’, the first single from their album “Optimizer”, 27.03 via Exploding In Sound Records, in which the keys invite you to dance and the strings dirty it up so it doesn't sound like the prom one #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/stuc...

Frieda Star give themselves star treatment in every bar of their debut single, ‘Mothers And Sisters’, combining raging rock and fuzz that howls the title, when the poppy character doesn't take care of calming the troubled waters #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/frie...

Savages release two previously unreleased songs, via Matador Records, demonstrating that, even in an intimate way, they have that unique touch that shows the band they were and that hopefully one day they will return where they left off #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/sava...

Electronic industrialism rocks Balderdasch's new single, ‘Homoerotic’, delivering a harsh auditory blow as its dance of bloody darkness accesses a deliberately reverberating psychological disturbance #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/bald...

Before releasing their EP “EPeepee,” Cowboy Hunters rocks the soundscape with cyber sci-fi-tinged punk in 'Have A Pint' and 'Money For Drugs' giving way to wild bursts of bloody mosh pits, ironic pop grown in the 80s and howls of uncontrollable rage #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/cowb...

BALACLAVA treats our ears to the single ‘DRAMATIC EXIT’, choreographing lo-fi garage rock whose scenic reverberation hits the post-punk base, as well as vocal punk, stirring up the crowd as it visits the saturation zone #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/bala...

Hot Garbage present the single ‘Wewu’, via Mothland, a clutter of rebellious egg-punk with garage overtones, numbered distortions, psychedelia steeped in psychotic shadows, and criminally punk vocal reverb #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/hot-...

The lo-fi envelope of sadness in Winston Hightower's new single, “Lay Low,” employs a devastating touch of normality in its lyrics, that is not, hence bringing it closer to King of Cats than to Mac DeMarco #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/wins...

PVA's debut album for It's All For Fun, “No More Like This”, constitutes a sonic space-time capable of playing with the listener's hypnotic rational emotionality, twisted R&B spasms, and the most sarcastic unease #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/pva-...

Hoping it's just a see you later, The Pill's last dance is officially their debut EP, “The EP”, where rock meets punk, garage country, spoken word, fuzz and ironic lyrics about clichés, to which they respond with rage and controlled distortion #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Melanie Baker seduces her singer-songwriter pop with a rebellious rock style that rises to garage and fuzz thanks to the rage contained in the lyrics, calling cards for the debut album (10/04)"Somebody Help Me, I'm Being Spontaneous!" #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/mela...

My German friend Plattenbau has recommended one of the post-punk revelations of 2025, CO-ED DORMS, whose debut LP takes the late 70s and early 80s to a rural world of compelling magic and something cinematic, where punk takes vocal precedence #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/co-e...

Cosmic Kitten's musical journey is even more explicit, if possible, when enjoying their live performance at last year's Tenderloin Fest, showcasing the quartet's blend of guitar rock and their penchant for the stylistic spasms of punk and grunge #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/comi...

Modern Woman's single 'Dashboard Mary', a preview of their debut album "Johnny's Dreamworld" (May 1), via One Little Independent Records, presents a hallucinogenic love affair that ends with vicious instrumental suffering #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/mode...

Landowner presents the single 'Rival Males', the first from their debut album for Exploding In Sound Records, "Assumption" (February 27), showcasing relentless post-punk that leads them to incubate vocal punk, thanks to the rage that consumes them #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/land...

n3ster debuts for Den Tapes with the EP “ep2”, an album that reflects the band's scorching origins, mixed with lush pop vocals that, when they want to, bring out that hardcore punk DNA that allows them to harmonize with the thunderous chaos outside #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/n3st...

BEER 2 is a band from Kentucky that prays to the saint of hardcore punk beer, laced with lo-fi and DIY, from which spring their best citrus notes of metal and fermentation of string electrification, hence always traverse the most bitter sonic mire #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/beer...

The most scorching shoegaze debuts on Lucid Express' singles 'Something Blue' and 'Faux Sweetness', unleashing a war of stringiness and vocal reverb, which take the wall of noise as far as the dreamier side of their invertebrate pop allows #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/luci...

Xiu Xiu release their first album of covers via Polyvinyl Record Co., and they do so in orchestral mode, integrating the songs by Talking Heads, Soft Cell, Robyn and Daniel Johnston, into their unique world of experimentalism, punk, and rock #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/xiu-...

Station Model Violence is a supergroup formed by members of R.M.F.C., Total Control, and Den. Their first single, 'Heat', is reminiscent of early Preoccupations, with an electrified post-punk sound that fits right in their new wave #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/stat...

The queen aka Kim Gordon releases the single ‘NOT TODAY’, via Matador Records, in which she unleashes a shoegaze-style dream pop, minimally distorted and purely analog, the first stop on her new album “PLAY ME” #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/kim-...

ira glass is an alternative rock revelation with a penchant for fuzz distortions, experimental jazz, emancipatory post-hardcore, and coercive, screaming punk vocals, with Maruja as their mirror image #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/ira-...

Twenty One Children's debut album, “After The Storm”, via Slovenly Recordings, is a hardcore trash punk frenzy that draws directly from Show Me The Body, the subversive mosh pit, superlative headbanging and the libertarian skateboarding philosophy #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/twen...

Dry Cleaning's spoken word post-punk on “Secret Love,” via 4AD, gently enters the hippocampus so that rock dances to the sound of minimal distortions while levitating above that anesthetized pop of light and darkness, which seeps into sonic cracks #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/dry-...

The mantra of immortal punk, violent rock, minority post-hardcore, bloody mosh pits, artistic desecration by Show Me The Body, and lots of revenge noise is reproduced in each of the three albums that Cast Courts have released to date #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/cast...

Luster is fascinated by shoegaze, the dark sound of dream pop at its most wandering, and that wall of relentless noise they hold in their hands on their latest single, 'Don't Need You', via Funeral Party Records #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/lust...

The best musical standard-bearer of 2026 aka Ecca Vandal, is called ‘CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE’, where instrumental rock and punk that, when it exceeds its violent functionalities, unmasks a hardcore born in the vocal ecstasy of Bully #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/ecca...

The must-sees at ESNS 2026 that I hope not to miss for anything in the world, starting with the punk of C'est Qui?, L.A. Sagne, Maria Iskariot, The New Eves, The Family Men, Calva Louise, Florence Road, Glazyhaze, Sunflowers, among the Spanish crew #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/esns...

No Violet's self-titled debut LP, via Tonality, sneaks into the best of 2025, thanks to vocal and instrumental power based on post-grunge mental alienation, art rock migraines, dictatorial punk and gut-wrenching electrified space noise #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/no-v...

Cathedral Bells release “Live Session at Studio West (San Diego CA)” via Artoffact Records, showcasing their DIIV-esque dream pop live sound, ethereal so that dreamy sensations never leave us and blend with synth-pop vocals reminiscent of The Smiths #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/cath...

Wristwatch celebrate the New Year's hangover with the release of their album “III”, via No Coast Recordings, leaving them with a garage rock sound tinged with post-punk and punk vocal suffering, highlighting their math and egg personality #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2026/01/wris...

Maruja releases that blessed madness that is their debut LP, "Pain To Power", focusing on rough experimental jazz, which exudes physical violence of survival in the face of a devil who takes control at will, based on fuzz, garage and cramped noise #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/maru...

The tradition continues and Dead Neanderthals gives us their sonic farewell to 2025 with the EP “Evocations”, delving deeper into the darkest drone and its fusion with metal, grindcore, and noise #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/dead...

Tefy Clouds bid farewell to 2025 with the release of their single 'QUIÉBRAME', via LÁTIGO, in a year where the trio is more than enough to fill their explosive sound with rock, garage, grunge, hardcore and riot grrrl witchcraft #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/tefy...

Tendinite's stylistic wall encloses rock around a sharp sonic steamroller of garage, boogie punk, and fatal noise on their album “The Great Depression”, via The Ghost Is Clear, Rockerill, Urgence Disk, Microfaune, Poutrage, and Hell Vice i Vicious #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/tend...

The quick way to describe Earthball's LP “Outside Over There,” released through Upset The Rhythm, would be to say that it is an anthem of experimentation, free improvisation, and psychedelia #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/eart...

The New Year's Eve chimes are rung by Useless Eaters on their 7" single feat. ‘Ego Shell’ and ‘Rub’, via Goodbye Boozy, setting the stage alight by bringing their egg, weird and garage-style punk into the 80s universe of electrified fuzz and lo-fi #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/usel...

The introductory tranquility of the single “Sore” by the quartet Whoebe takes off when the vocals are surrounded by stoner rock structured by echoes of Linkin Park and the apathy of its terrifying progressive distortions #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/wheo...

CS Cleaners' debut single for @wharfcatrecords.bsky.social at Records, 'Come & Go', focuses its efforts on art rock, razor-sharp post-punk, rowdy no wave, and vocal punk that vacillates between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for its representation #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/cs-c...

thistle. bids farewell to the year with the 7“ ”tied,", alternating between electrified fuzz overturned by nu-gaze and post-shoegaze, alternative rock and lo-fi dreamy movements, and Morriseian lyrics in contrast to the instrumental style #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/this...

VIBORA's post-hardcore ends the year with the single “Fotos,” subject to screamo, forceful on the microphone through muffled punk scream and grunge-attitude lyrics, combined with an emotional layer of distorted shoegaze #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/vibo...

Goodbye's debut single, “Meat,” shows that pop ceases to be pop when it is given a chordal and drum-based makeover, resulting in dream-pop, distorted lo-fi shoegaze and an ecstasy of quasi-psychedelic alternative rock #NBTW retratandovoces.blogspot.com/2025/12/good...