When your songs are too big to be contained: form a band. Maybe call it after your family name because you like the way it sounds (sh*t, if it worked for Bon Jovi then who’s to argue). Record those songs in the basement of your parents house in Tacoma. When that burns down, shake it off and move to New York. Find a new band to play with, start working on a symphony (no really, do it), mix your newfound formal training with the noisy exuberance of youth. Get raucous Pre-Order from Insound

The grooving bass-line supports Oddisee's classic wah-synths and trance-like horns as an unrelenting Rhodes piano solo escalates throughout Trek Life’s rhymes until the crescendo and sudden drop at the end; a testament to the musicality of the Diamond District producer. More from Mello Music Group

Years ago I used to date this girl who drove a Porsche. One weekend we drove the car up to Chicago. I remember driving really really fast down Lakeshore Drive in the middle of the night. I felt like such a badass in that moment feeding on the rush of adrenaline as we traveled faster and faster down this seam of asphalt caught between the glitter and glow of the city and the endlessly dark abyss of Lake Michigan. We just signed this new band Suuns out of Montreal and they're the reason I bring this up. Their new song "Arena" sounds just like I felt in that moment in Chicago: propulsive, mesmerizing, a little dangerous and infinitely cool, like the whole world's at my fingertips. More from Secretly Canadian

The dudes in Dan Padilla, which features members of Tiltwheel and Madison Bloodbath, have been involved in the San Diego DIY punk scene for two decades, setting up and running shows, recording, and helping touring bands with food and a floor to sleep on. Keeping the scene alive, the partnership of Dan Padilla and Paper + Plastick allowed the band to stay true to their DIY ethics and morals, while releasing their music to a broader audience. Download The Entire New EP

They've got the club party sound nailed down and dropping names like Patrick Swayze and name brand liquors, The White Kids will find a way to make you move(and drink!). Featuring the dynamic duo of Samuel Ramon Mull and Vincent Allen Edwards Jr., The White Kids sound like "sex to your eardrums." More from Breakfast Club Records

Pop Negro is the follow up to El Guincho’s critically acclaimed debut album Alegranza. Pitchfork said of it “The impressive and probably unwittingly fashionable source material-- Afrobeat, dub, Tropicalia, and early rock'n'roll-- and the irresistibility of these songs can only briefly obscure the fact that no one else is really making music quite like this.” More from XL Recordings

Winterville, Georgia, where a revolving cast of players, thinkers, and singers were invited to hang in the band's living-room studio. While Paranoid Cocoon found the band lending itself to the occasional lengthy jam, Tall Hours...finds Cotton Jones reigning in the songs, for a more succinct pop feel. The resulting sounds are rich and charmingly lo-fi, full of vivid imagery, gorgeous vocal harmonies and makes Tall Hours in The Glowstream the band's most accessible album yet More from Suicide Squeeze

Our long-time, super-dooper good pals in Guiltmaker have just self-released a brand spankin' new EP, and as with all of their releases, we're pretty excited about it. Continuing on, and outward, after the majestic and downright epic Dilemmas full-length, The Emerald Coast contains more of that relentless bass and pummeling drums and haunting, delay-pedal-induced guitar intricacies that we've come to expect from our boys. Download The Entire New EP

Forging a new path with Diatribe Or Die!, Latin For Truth finds common ground through punk rock with a conscious. Echoing influences of the past while maintaining a modern feel, Latin For Truth barrels through six songs that stress making a difference and staying positive. “You can flaunt the flag while we save the ship” might sound like a bold call to arms at first but the band backs it up on Diatribe Or Die!. More from Mightier Than Sword

Sonically, Personal Life continues the Thermals tradition of high energy punk/power/pop while also exploring darker, more introspective territory. Lyrically, Personal Life obsesses over love and lies with the same passion The Thermals have reserved for politics and death in the past. More from Kill Rock Stars