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The RED PEARS • Mexican Slum Rats • 60 Juno

Hailing from El Monte, a sleepy suburban town just east of Los Angeles, The Red Pears’ founding members, Henry Vargas (vocals/guitar) and Jose Corona (drums), draw their sound from the spectrum between the early 2000s New York indie rock and grunge scene to the cumbia and corridos that soundtracked their childhoods. After cycling through an assortment of lineups, mutual friend and bassist Patrick Juarez stayed on and expanded their operation. Now a solid three-piece band, the emerging alt-rockers have come a long way from meeting at a local Battle of the Bands, practicing in their garages, and naming themselves after their favorite color and a pun on the word “pair”— a subtle nod to sonic inspirations The White Stripes and The Black Keys.

HIGH VIS (UK) • Sculpture Club • URN

Though the band were all alumni of some of the UK hardcore scene’s most celebrated groups, High Vis’s 2019 debut, No Sense No Feeling, was a record that opened its viewfinder beyond the parameters of any genre or scene. Sure, the intensity and passion of hardcore were stoking the fires, but in its intense post-punk inspired textures and moods lay a sonic adventurousness which suggested the members of High Vis were never going to be confined by any notion of what they should or shouldn’t be playing.

George Clanton w/ Frost Children, Death’s Dynamic Shroud

TEENAGE WRIST • Spiritual Cramp • Trauma Ray • Slow Joy

TEENAGE WRIST return to Dallas with Spiritual Cramp (first time), Trauma Ray & Slow Joy.

SUNDIVER CA • Washout • IRONS

(Corona, CA) Organically spinning behind nearly 100k online clips is the music of dream-psych extraordinaire Christopher Lopez; if his pseudonym – SUNDIVER CA – doesn’t ring a bell, your ears might perk up at the first few moments of Soundtrack for your Backseat, which boasts nearly 30 million Spotify rotations. With a sophomore LP due soon, the now five-piece band will be shimmering on a stage near you soon.

SUNDIVER CA • IRONS

(Corona, CA) Organically spinning behind nearly 100k online clips is the music of dream-psych extraordinaire Christopher Lopez; if his pseudonym – SUNDIVER CA – doesn’t ring a bell, your ears might perk up at the first few moments of Soundtrack for your Backseat, which boasts nearly 30 million Spotify rotations. With a sophomore LP due soon, the now five-piece band will be shimmering on a stage near you soon.

TEMPLE OF ANGELS • Bleed • Trauma Ray

Temple of Angels’ debut full-length, Endless Pursuit, is a towering and stunning album of gothic beauty that heralds the proper arrival of one of the most dazzling bands performing right now. Shaped by the ghosts of the past and the wonder of the present, the release is dream pop at its most striking, using the haze and beauty of the genre not to blur songs til they are impenetrable in every sense, but rather to capture the fleeting wonder of new love and emphasize the confusion and disorientation of loss. Formed in 2017 in Austin, Texas, Avery Burton (guitar/vocals), Patrick Todd (drums/vocals), and Cole Tucker (guitar) had all played in various hardcore and punk bands around town for years, but were keen to explore the dreamier, moodier music they enjoyed as well. After recording a few demos, they recruited Bre Morell (vocals) to be their lead singer. The new group self-releasing two EPs–2017’s Temple of Angels and 2018’s Foiled–and a single on Funeral Party Records in 2019, and were soon performing with the likes of Beach Fossils, Iceage, Narrow Head, and Turnover as well as at festivals like Levitation and Not Dead Yet.

DUSTER • Sour Widows

Duster’s fourth album is a 13-song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. “I know people say, ‘Oh Duster music so sad, we’ve even said it ourselves before,” Clay Parton said. “But it’s a lot more like absurdism than nihilism.”