Alternative & Pop Punk
Updated: Feb 16
A compilation of all the alternative and pop punk releases we've recommended. This list will be updated in alphabetical order. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.
Artist: ††† (Crosses)
Album: PERMANENT.RADIANT EP
Listen to First: "Sensation"
Artist: Album Club
Album: Album Club
Listen to First: "The Hard Part"
Artist: Attempt Survivors
Album: Educated Hips EP
Listen to First: "Follow Me Chaos"
Artist: Bandaid Brigade
Album: Sex Is Terrifying
Listen to First: "Hit the Buck"
Artist: Bartees Strange
Album: Farm to Table
Listen to First: "Heavy Heart"
Artist: Billy Nomates
Album: CACTI
Listen to First: "saboteur forcefield"
Artist: Blake Morgan
Album: Violent Delights
Listen to First: "Down Below or up Above"
Artist: Boston Manor
Album: Datura
Listen to First: "Foxglove"
Artist: Brotherkenzie
Album: NATHAN
Listen to First: "GET ON IT"
Artist: Chastity
Album: Suffer Summer
Listen to First: “Pummeling”
Artist: CIEL
Album: Not In the Sun, Nor in the Dark EP
Listen to First: "Baby Don't You Know"
Artist: Circuit des Yeux + Claire Rousay
Album: Sunset Poem EP
Listen to First: "Sculpting the Exodus"
Artist: Cisco Swank and Luke Titus
Album: Some Things Take Time
Listen to First: "Could It Be You"
Artist: crushed
Album: extra life EP
Listen to First: "bedside"
Artist: Daisy Grenade
Album: Sophomore Slump (EP)
Listen to First: "MILF"
Artist: David Knudson (of Minus the Bear)
Album: The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything
Listen to First: "Jealous Time Steals"
Artist: The Dreaded Laramie
Album: Everything A Girl Could Ask EP
Listen to First: "Tell Me"
Artist: Future Palace
Album: Run
Listen to First: "Heads Up"
Artist: Future Teens
Album: Self Help
Listen to First: "Same Difference"
Artist: Gemma Ray
Album: Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang
Listen to First: "Come Oblivion"
Artist: GIFT
Album: Momentary Presence
Listen to First: "Gumball Garden"
Artist: Hey Thanks!
Album: Start/Living
Listen to First: "This Small Space"
Artist: Ibeyi
Album: Spell 31
Listen to First: "Lavender & Red Roses"
Artist: The Inflorescence
Album: Remember What I Look Like
Listen to First: "Are You Sorry"
Artist: Jack Kays (with Travis Barker)
Album: My Favorite Nightmares EP
Listen to First: “SIDEWAYS”
Artist: JESTR
Album: The Dead & Riches
Listen to First: "Scare You!"
Artist: Joywave
Album: Cleanse
Listen to First: "Every Window Is A Mirror"
Artist: JR Slayer
Album: Not Rotten EP
Listen to First: "NOT ROTTEN"
Artist: The Juliana Theory
Album: Still The Same Kids Pt. 1 EP
Listen to First: "Playback '99 (Burn the Cassette Deck)"
Artist: Justin Courtney Pierre (of Motion City Soundtrack)
Album: Permanent Midnight EP
Listen to First: "House of Strangers"
Artist: Leyla McCalla
Album: Breaking The Thermometer
Listen to First: "You Don't Know Me"
Artist: Liv Slingerland
Album: Hey You
Listen to First: "An Entire Lifetime"
Artist: LOWLIFE
Album: PAYDAY
Listen to First: "ELON"
Artist: The March Divide
Album: Lost Causes
Listen to First: "Tension in the Air"
Artist: Meat Wave
Album: Malign Hex
Listen to First: "Honest Living"
Artist: The MOSS
Album: Insomnia EP
Listen to First: "Insomnia"
Artist: Narrow Head
Album: Moments of Clarity
Listen to First: "Moments of Clarity"
Artist: Oliver Sim (of The xx)
Album: Hideous Bastard
Listen to First: "Romance with a Memory"
Artist: Omni of Halos
Album: Care Free EP
Listen to First: "You Suck"
Artist: One Armed Joey
Album: Happiness, To Me
Listen to First: "Home Sick"
Artist: poolblood
Album: mole
Listen to First: "my little room"
Artist: Say It Anyway
Album: Picture Frames EP
Listen to First: "Watch The Flowers Bloom"
Artist: Scout Gillett
Album: one to ten EP
Listen to First: "Come On Let's Go"
Artist: Sharon Van Etten
Album: We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Listen to First: "Darkness Fades"
Artist: Sizzy Rocket
Album: Live Laugh Love
Listen to First: "Metallic"
Artist: The Smile (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner)
Album: A Light for Attracting Attention
Listen to First: "The Smoke"
Artist: Smrtdeath
Album: it's fine
Listen to First: "sober"
Artist: SOHN
Album: Trust
Listen to First: "Segre"
Artist: Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
Album: Pretty Good For A Girl Band EP
Listen to First: "AHHHH!"
Artist: The Thing With Feathers
Album: Sundays In The South EP
Listen to First: "Lights Down Low"
Artist: Tomberlin
Album: i don’t know who needs to hear this…
Listen to First: "happy accident"
Artist: Unarmed
Album: It’s Like That EP
Listen to First: "The Perfect Summer"
Artist: The Velvet Hands
Album: Sucker Punch
Listen to First: "Holiday in My Head"
Artist: Vero
Album: Unsoothing Interior
Listen to First: "Heather"
Artist: Whitmer Thomas
Album: The Older I Get The Funnier I Was
Listen to First: "Rigamarole"
Artist: Widows Gold
Album: Love Drops
Listen to First: "Inside"
Artist: With The Punches
Album: Discontent EP
Listen to First: "Stoneham Blues"
Artist: Wy
Album: Something Amazing EP
Listen to First: "Teeth"
Playlist
This list is created by listening to all the releases listed on Consequence with under 1 million monthly listeners. If you have an upcoming release that you’d like to be considered for a future list, please fill out the "New Artist Submission" form on our site with the above information as well as a link to listen.
Please note: all submissions will be added to our “Artist Submissions” playlist but may or may not be included on our Friday Release Picks.