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Yellow Ostrich is a long-running project led by Minneapolis-based songwriter Alex Schaaf, who started the band in Brooklyn in 2010 before moving it to the Midwest. The band released Soft in 2022 on Barsuk Records, the first new music in seven years to be released by Schaaf under the Yellow Ostrich moniker, since he paused the project to explore new musical identities on a handful of excellent self-released albums.

The new album takes its name from the lyric that stands as a thesis for the entire album, a beautiful and haunting rumination on the pitfalls and pressures of traditional masculinity and on Schaaf's drive toward vulnerability and tenderness as core tenets of his being.

Brunette is a 5-piece indie rock outfit from the twin cities. Formed in late 2020 by childhood friends/dual songwriters Sam Holt and Joey Hays, their songs are evocative of the nostalgia and impermanence of adolescence, with tunes oscillating between energetic, guitar-heavy choruses and intimate heart-on-their-sleeve verses. Their latest single “Fight Night” fixates on anxiety and apathy working in tandem, with Hays’ lyrics painting an uncomfortable picture of feigning detachment in the face of love.