When the Los Angeles teen trio LED dropped their new single "YOUR PERFECT", I was violently thrown back into the absolute, suffocating gravity of toxic high school heartbreak. https://open.spotify.com/track/0rJAWp3Dgyob2Ao0kIbVw3?si=ac87993782c34a0a Edie Yvonne, Layne Olivia, and Lockett Pentz, kids who initially bumped into each other at a film camp have seemingly decided to skip cinematic pursuits in favor of crafting sheer, fuzzy vengeance. They construct the melody over...

Flavor Wave’s single, “The Optimist,” arrived less like a declaration and more like someone tentatively drawing back a dusty curtain on a grey afternoon. From West Chester, PA, these five lifelong friends – Kyle Loedel (vocals, lyrics), Matthew Stretch (lead guitar), Patrick Blair (rhythm guitar), Noah Montgomery (bass), and Joshua Speaker (performer/drums) – typically tread alternative rock paths nodding to influences like The Strokes....