If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Vanessa Heins New Brunswick's Motherhood have their own take on the whole indie rock thing. Their newest single, "Tabletop," has a certain classic indie rock vibe while not really sounding like most classic indie rock. It's upbeat while still sounding sorta aggressive. If anything, most things about the song seem a little off. The vocals don't quite match the drumming, which doesn't match the guitars... everything seems to be going at it's own time, but somehow it all works together. Plus, "Tabletop" is oddly groovy. The whole vibe is like a Pavement meets The Dandy Warhols thing, which you know we'll be all about here. You can watch the video for "Tabletop" below. Winded is due out June 24 on Forward Music Group, and can be pre-ordered via Bandcamp . For more on Motherhood, check out the band's website .

Photo by Vanessa Heins Sometimes we'll get a submission before we're allowed to post it, and despite how excited we are to share the new song we have to wait. It feels like I've been sitting on this one for ages, but I can finally share the latest from Motherhood. Granted, I don't know much about New Brunswick, Canada, but this isn't what I expected a band from that territory to sound like. "Ripped Sheet" is a fast and noisy punk rock song. It starts off with some droning feedback, and then once it fully kicks in you just need to buckle up and hold on. It's a relatively straightforward punk song, except for the odd noise factor and what could be surf guitar popping up every so often. It's not quite noise punk... it's more noisy oddball punk. But sign us up for the Motherhood bandwagon. The band says of the new song: "We wrote Ripped Sheet after talking about writing a 'straight-ahead punk' song for awhile and then finally learning ...