Artists like Black Country, New Road

Racing Mount Pleasant are an indie band from Ann Arbor, Michigan. After forming under the name Kingfisher at the University of Michigan, they released their debut album Grip Your Fist, I'm Heaven Bound in November 2022. In 2025, they changed their name to Racing Mount Pleasant and released a self-titled album. Their musical style has been compared to bands such as Bon Iver, Lord Huron, and Black Country, New Road.

My New Band Believe is an English rock band formed in 2025 by former Black Midi bassist and vocalist Cameron Picton, following the band's 2024 hiatus. The band features Picton on lead vocals and guitar, as well as a rotating lineup of musicians on drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, and saxophone.

Candelabro is a Chilean art rock band formed in Santiago in 2021. Originally founded by Matías Ávila, Javiera Donoso, Franco Arriagada (drums), Carlos Muñoz, Nahuel Alavia and Luis Ayala (guitar), they added a seventh member, saxophonist María Lobos, in 2024. The band gained initial attention through their debut album, Ahora o Nunca in 2023. Their second studio album, Deseo, carne y voluntad was released in 2025 to critical and commercial acclaim. Luis Ayala and María Lobos both left the band in 2026, with David Romero (guitar) and Isidora Aldonza (oboe) joining shortly after.

Man/Woman/Chainsaw is an English rock band from London, founded in 2019. The band are currently signed to Fiction Records.

Shame are a British five-piece post-punk band from South London. Formed in 2014, the group consists of lead vocalist Charlie Steen, guitarists Eddie Green and Sean Coyle-Smith, bassist Josh Finerty, and drummer Charlie Forbes. They are affiliated with the Windmill scene in their native Brixton, along with other South London post-punk bands such as Black Midi and Squid.

Honeyglaze are an indie rock trio from South London formed by Anouska Sokolow with Tim Curtis and Yuri Shibuichi. They released a self-titled LP in 2022 followed by the album Real Deal in 2024.

Have a Nice Life is an American rock band founded in Middletown, Connecticut in 2000 by Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga.

Courting are a British electronic rock band based in Liverpool. The group consists of lead vocalist Sean Murphy-O'Neill, drummer Sean Thomas, guitarist Joshua Cope and bassist Connor McCann. Since their formation in 2018, they have released one extended play, Grand National (2021), and three studio albums: Guitar Music in 2022, New Last Name in 2024, and Lust for Life, Or: 'How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story' in 2025.

Horsegirl is an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, made up of Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece.

The Smile are an English rock band comprising Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner (drums). Critics likened them to Yorke and Greenwood's band Radiohead, with more jazz, krautrock and progressive rock influences and a looser, wilder sound.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, also known simply as Silver Mt. Zion, and abbreviated to SMZ, are a Canadian post-rock band that formed in 1999, originating from Montreal, Quebec. The group was founded by Godspeed You! Black Emperor co-founder Efrim Menuck, who was joined by fellow Godspeed members Sophie Trudeau and Thierry Amar. Aside from these core members, Silver Mt. Zion has undergone almost yearly personnel changes, evolving by stages from a mostly instrumental trio at the time of its first recordings into an eight-piece group, and then in 2008 into a strongly vocal quintet.

Porridge Radio were a British indie rock band formed in Brighton in 2015. They are fronted by vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Dana Margolin. The other members are keyboardist Georgie Stott and drummer Sam Yardley, bassist Dan Hutchins, and formerly bassist Maddie Ryall.

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band and musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning in 1999. Alongside Drew and Canning, the other core members of the band are Justin Peroff (drums), Andrew Whiteman (guitar) and Charles Spearin (guitar). Other longtime members and collaborators include Evan Cranley, Sam Goldberg (guitar), James Shaw and David French. Vocalists Leslie Feist, Emily Haines, Amy Millan, Lisa Lobsinger and Ariel Engle have made significant contributions to the band's studio albums and live performances across its career.