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Artist : Hater Album : Mosquito Quick Thoughts : In a March where there have been a number of good, but not great, albums, there are three standouts likely to at least make my 2026 longlist, Hater's Mosquito being one of them. We've liked what we've heard up to this point, but Mosquito feels like a polished leveling up for the band. "This Guy?" has an indie sensibility with an accessible entrypoint, and "Landslide" has all the markings of a breakthrough song. A favorite for sure, so check it out. Songs of Note : "This Guy?" "Landslide," "Brighter," "Guts," "Still Thinking of You," "Last Summer I'll Spill" Artist : 2:00AM Wake Up Call Album : Dead City Quick Thoughts : This album very much came out of nowhere for me and feels like that sort of super-underground indie record that you tripped up over in the mid-2000s and were convinced it was kept secret from you for no reason...

Photo by Christian Stavros You may know Morgan Nagler from her bands Whispertown and Supermoon. Now she's releasing solo music and just released her second solo single. "Orange Wine" lands in the sweet spot for us of being part indie rock and part Americana. The song has a little bit of that folk ramblin' thing going on while still being a noisy indie rock song. I can't tell if the guitar is more twangy than it is noisy, but either way I'm enjoying it. "Orange Wine" is the type of song that is both twee and epic. This is our introduction to Morgan Nagler, and it's safe to say that we're fully on board with the artist. Morgan Nagler says of her latest single: "Orange Wine is about living in Los Angeles in the modern age. It's a caricature of itself and of myself. It’s a love and hate relationship. I’m not interested unless it’s heartbreaking - but heartbreakingly beautiful is the ultimate yin yang." You can watch the video for ...