Undercard #3

ft. Jake Xerxes Fussell, Emma-Jean Thackray, TAAHLIAH, DIIV, and many more

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HELLO FRIENDS!

 

Welcome to the third edition of Undercard, our weekly music roundup, featuring the best new releases from this year’s artists and beyond.

 

This week:
The new Dutch Interior album lived up to the hype; jasmine.4.t covered System of a Down; Australia gifted us new Floodlights and Tropical Fuck Storm records; The Guardian said nice things about us, and more.
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Tropical Fuck Storm (Credit: Jamie Wdziekonski)

 

The Guardian featured End of the Road last weekend, noting our “stellar musical lineup
jasmine.4.t played a host of SXSW sets and won the annual Grulke prizefor Best Developing Act. Julien Baker also showed up for one of the shows to cover the System of a Down track “Toxicity” – scroll down to see it
Tropical Fuck Storm have announced their forthcoming album, Fairyland Codex, will come out June 20th on Fire Records
Kristin Hersh, whose band Throwing Muses released a rarely reviewed new album last week, looks over five key songs from her career for The Line of Best Fit
Pitchfork released a list of the 50 Most Anticipated Albums of Spring2025 and records by EOTR25 artists Florist, These New Puritans, Matt Berninger and Black Country, New Road all make an appearance
→ We shared a video guide to Kassie Krut on our TikTok– follow us there if you don’t already <3
 

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Dutch Interior released their new album Moneyball (pictured above) on Fat Possum. The debut record from the LA-based alt-folk ensemble came out today and has already earned great reviews, with Clash calling the band “one to look out for throughout the remainder of 2025 and beyond” and commending “an ambitious debut that lands its audacious swings
 ⚉ Floodlights, the Melbourne five-piece who are “among Australia’s most promising new rock acts” (Double J), released their “big-hearted, emotionally honest” new record Underneath via [PIAS] today
The Golden Dregs released new single “Linoleum” this week, “a song of unresolved longing, stasis (and) inertia” that took years to come together and finally made sense to vocalist Benjamin Woods during a visit to Telegraph Hill, a park in south London
Tropical Fuck Storm released new single, Bloodsport,lifted from upcoming record, Fairyland Codex. The album, which comes out June 20th on their new label Fire Records, was recorded with co-producer Michael Beach at the band’s Dodgy Brothers studio in Nagambie, Australia, and immerses listeners in “the chaos of a fateful landslide, picking out the characters that litter the impending collapse of society
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Wet Leg (Credit: Iris Luz)

 

Wet Leg, who played in 2023, released a snippet of a new song on Instaand announced “we’re so back”, with intimate shows also confirmed for next month in New York and LA
Ezra Furman, who we also hosted at our 2023 event, shared new single, “Jump Out“, lifted from her upcoming album Goodbye Small Head, which comes out May 16th via Bella Union. She said about it: “‘Jump Out’ is a panicked rocker for realizing you are going to have to leap from a moving vehicle because the driver has no intention of letting you out
Loraine James, who played in 2021, released a new album under her Whatever the Weather alias of “introspective IDM/ambient hybrid productions… themed around different temperatures, smudging tactile and vaporous sounds into an alluring collage” (Pitchfork)
Nels Cline, guitarist for Wilco (who headlined in 2023) released a new solo jazz record called Consentrik Quartet featuring saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Tom Rainey
Tiberius b, the London-based singer-songwriter who played the festival last year, has announced their forthcoming debut album, which is being released on the Mark Ronson-owned label Zelig Music. The announcement was accompanied by new single, STAY WITH ME!
 

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jasmine.4.t performed a cover of the System of a Down track “Toxicity” with pal Julien Baker at SXSW last week ↑

 

 

 

Tropical Fuck Storm released a trippy video for their new single “Bloodsport” ↑

 

 

 

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⇢  We’re on the lookout for friendly bar staff volunteers to serve End of the Road’s folk their refreshment of choice. Involves 3x 5 hour shifts + gets you into the festival and staff campsite.
Email [email protected] for more details and the application form.
 

 

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Festival favourite Ezra Furman is hosting A World Of Love & Care at EartH in Hackney this May, a very special day of music and more ft. full band and solo sets from the singer-songwriter, Q&As and a host of special guests. More details and tickets here.
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