Popmatters premieres four versions of The Orange Peels' "Something Strange Happens"

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Warning! This song is highly addictive! It's the second edition of "The Evolution of a Song" from The Orange Peels!

This time it's "Something Strange Happens," about which Jedd Beaudoin of Popmatters says, "It has all the makings of a hit. Or at least the kind of hit that music critics imagine will be a hit. It's made of all the stuff that fans of Marshall Crenshaw, The Posies, and Big Star appreciate and, in its way, predicts the more recognizable elements of power punk and emo." Four versions: From the take on leader Allen Clapp's pre-Peels album, to an early scrapped studio mix, to the newly remastered official release, to a brand new 2020 version. The 40-track deluxe reissue of 1997's Square, aka Square Cubed, is out now on Minty Fresh.

V13 premieres "Hammer of the Dogs," The Pinx' ode to Led Zeppelin

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There’s more new music from The Pinx over at V13.

“‘Hammer of the Dogs’... an obvious ode to the innovators of hard rock, Led Zeppelin, and the ‘hammer of the Gods’ lyric from their 1970 classic ‘Immigrant Song’... a scorching tune that pulls no punches in its approach, something typical of the group’s brand new EP... Electric! may only be five tracks in length, but it’ll wear you out.”

This is the most brutal cut on the new EP (according to me)!

American Songwriter premieres Alex Lilly's "Aquamarine," from Love In Three Colors

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She's American! She's a songwriter! Alex Lilly is an American Songwriter and her song "Aquamarine," one of our personal favorites from her catalog, is featured today. The song "instills an immediate vintage electronica vibe that would likely be right at home in parts of Cyndi Lauper's dance pop repertoire."

Listen now, and find the song everywhere as part of Lilly's new three-song bundle "Love In Three Colors" via Release Me Records.

For Folk's Sake shares Reforester's "Drive by Feel"

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For Folk’s Sake says “Drive by Feel,” the first single from the Reforester EP Perpetuity, out August 14, contains "sweeping layers of musicality, making for listens that are as accessible and lovely as they are impressively composed.”

I love this line: "I removed the steering wheel, just to prove I could drive by feel." Check out the lyric video right now!

Atwood Magazine premieres Speaker Face's grooving new single "Phosphorescence," from the upcoming Crescent LP

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I have been variously grooving on and getting feels for this song for weeks. It moves and it moves, ya know? So excited for Atwood Magazine to premiere "Phosphorescence," the first single from Crescent, the upcoming new album by Toronto's Speaker Face!

"It’s easy to get lost in the intimate waves of Speaker Face’s lush sound: They cultivate a strong hypnotizing presence that arrests the senses." Yes!