Roots of Modern Color

Champaign, IL space-rockers — heavy chords, huge distances.

Turnover is an American rock band from Virginia Beach, Virginia. The band were formed in 2009 by brothers Austin and Casey (drums) Getz alongside longtime friend Danny Dempsey (bass); the three have gone on to oversee every iteration of the band to date. The three are currently joined in the band by lead guitarist Nick Rayfield, who began touring with the band in 2017 and was later officially inducted as a full-time member in 2022. Turnover have released six studio albums and four EPs across their career. Their most recent album, Down on Earth, was released on May 29th 2026.

Deafheaven is an American blackgaze band formed in 2010. Originally based in San Francisco, the group began as a two-piece with singer George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, who recorded and self-released a demo album together. Following its release, Deafheaven recruited three new members and began to tour. Before the end of 2010, the band signed to Deathwish Inc. and later released their debut album Roads to Judah, in April 2011. They popularized a unique style blending black metal, shoegaze, and post-rock, among other influences, later called blackgaze by reviewers.

True Widow is an American rock band formed in 2007 and based in Dallas, Texas. The band's expansive guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as "drop-tuned, slow, repetitive, heavy, dreamy, and undeniably ear-wormy". True Widow has been known for contrasting alternation between male and female vocals. To date, the band has released four albums, their eponymous album True Widow (2008), As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth (2011), Circumambulation (2013), and Avvolgere (2016).

Joyce Manor is an American punk rock band, formed in Torrance, California, in 2008. The band's current lineup consists of singer-songwriter and guitarist Barry Johnson; guitarist Chase Knobbe; and bassist/backing vocalist Matt Ebert. The band's musical style is rooted in punk rock, though it has diversified over the course of its career. The band first gained momentum through word-of-mouth and early exposure on social media. The group has had a different drummer for each album cycle since 2015.

Bay Area slowcore icons; fuzz recorded on a four-track and left there.

Sacramento heavyweights whose alt-metal absorbed shoegaze and dream pop.

Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands of the 1980s, and attained international chart success as part of the Second British Invasion.