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Photo by JJ Gonson Beloved indie rockers Team Dresch have a new single out from their comeback album, and it's one of the finest of the year. "Growing Underground" is a killer song from the queercore icons, filled with buzzing guitars and gang vocals. The song lands somewhere between 90's indie rock and punk, which is one of my favorite places for music to land. The drums are driving, the guitars seem to just be waiting to explode, and everything comes together into a big noisy finale. Team Dresch are one of those bands that have fallen under my radar for most of their existence, and I've always meant to give them more of a listen. "Growing Underground" just proves that I've big time dropped the ball on them. Team Dresch says of their latest single: “ Boiled down to its core, ‘Growing Underground’ imagines a future rooted not in fear, but in love.  It’s a place of germination. It’s the root system. The mycelial network. The place where growth begins ...

Photo by Twylo Landey Somehow, I completely missed Team Dresch the first time around. When the queercore legends started playing shows again in recent years, people whose taste I respect starting freaking out, but for some reason I never quite got around to getting into them. If you're like me, now might be the perfect time to finally jump on the Team Dresch bandwagon since they're about to release their first album in thirty years. Their new single, "One Song," is giving me flashbacks from my college radio days. It's a driving and fun melodic indie rock track. In one track, the huge deal about Team Dresch is fully explained, and I'm mad I didn't spend the mid-90's pogoing like crazy at the front of the stage for their shows. "One Song" is the style of song that eventually morphed into emo, and I'll be spending the rest of the week fully immersing myself into their back catalog. Team Dresch says of their latest single: “There are lots of ...