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Photo by Tanner Deutsch Of all the bands doing the 90's inspired alt-rock thing in 2025, we have a little soft spot for Rocket. The Los Angeles band has a new single out, and while it might have its roots in the mid 90's, "Another Second Chance" sounds like 2025. It's an incredibly catchy and infectious rock song that sounds like summer lingering on. It's reminiscent of the period in the 90's where grunge was starting to fade out and a more pop focused sound was taking over. "Another Second Chance" sounds like if Letters to Cleo had formed in southern California and not Boston. As poppy as the track may be, there is plenty of alt-rock distortion to keep everything interesting. Desi Scaglione (guitar) says of the band's upcoming album: “Recording the second half of the album eight months after the first half gave us a lot of time to think about what we were doing. We ended up re-recording three songs because we felt like we could just do bette...

Photo by Tanner Deutsch Rocket have been making 90's inspired alt-rock, but their latest single ups the ante on that sound. "Wide Awake" is a mixture of shoegaze fuzz and the more jagged style of guitars that made me love Sonic Youth. Singer/bassist Alithea Tuttle's vocals have a dreamlike quality suited to dream pop or shoegaze, which contrasts delightfully with the more aggressive parts of the song. Despite not truly sounding like a song made in the 90's, "Wide Awake" has so many elements of that decade to give you little bursts of nostalgia. Plus, the video for the song is like a cross between Blur's "Charmless Man" and Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)," in case you need a little more nostalgia thrown in. Rocket say of their new single: “R is for Rocket is about relationships, the most important part of life; relationships with your friends, your parents, your girlfriend or boyfriend, and most impo...