Glasgow has a habit of doing this. Just when you've convinced yourself that the British indie scene has exhausted every permutation of guitar-and-feeling, a voice arrives from somewhere else entirely — in this case, from an Italian artist who has absorbed Liverpool, reinvented herself under the name Cling Film, and produced a debut single of such quiet, knotty confidence that it demands to be taken seriously on its own highly peculiar terms.

The most remarkable thing about Atomic Youth is not that they don't exist—rock history is littered with fictional bands from the Archies to Gorillaz—but that they've managed to infiltrate the small print of their own press release like some sort of administrative poltergeist. Here are four rendered phantoms who've somehow convinced the music industry apparatus to treat them as corporeal entities, complete with booking agents, press kits, and what appears to be a moderately successful touring schedule disrupted only by occasional exorcisms.

Detroit-based band Marcus: the Apex Predator! released their new mini-album earlier this year. The record is called 'Newborn Fossil' and contains five new tracks to represent the latest history of this wonderful band.

'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy' is a new single from New York band Ecce Shnak, which opens the curtain on their new EP 'Shadows Grow Fangs', which will be released early next year. Ecce Shnak was formed in the mid-00s and since then the band has expanded its music catalog with original and charismatic rock music.

American band Bury The Pines shared a new single 'Destiny' on October 18. The band reunited for the first time in 2023 and is currently planning new recordings and a tour. Their music sounds original and effective.

likethehotels is a solo music project by Ian David Hilton who writes and records his songs in his home studio in Arizona. Working his main job as an electrical engineer for Fender Musical Instruments, he has the opportunity to use some prototypes on his records.

On August 2, the new album of the London band The Diomedes was released. 'DIOMEDES' is a powerful collection of 15 tracks wrapped in one concept, which in turn conveys the incredible impulses of our troubled times.