Hair is the second EP from Buffalo-based pop rock quartet Genesee Hotel. Building on the catchy pop melodies and late 90s summer vibes of their debut EP, Strawberry, Hair is an electrifying listen, sending your follicles straight-up with voltaic themes of deep love and pure devotion. Inspired by the pop rock zenith brought on by bands like Third Eye Blind and the Goo Goo Dolls, Genesee Hotel strips songs down to their bare minimum, bringing out the catchiest songwriting elements without sacrificing the deep distilled essence of their emo-revival backgrounds.

There are elements for everyone found throughout Hair – you might enjoy the blistering guitar solo found in album opener “Bones.” “Light Me Up” received a fun music video treatment that the band filmed exclusively using a Ring doorbell. “Worth It” is the band at their darkest with a ruthlessly catchy chorus. Title track “Hair” is true lightning-in-a-bottle, a once-in-a-career anthem about nostalgia, love, and tenderness.

Check it out on all of your favorite streaming platforms.

Baby Got Back Talk have released their Wiretap Records debut single, “Model Minority,” to all streaming platforms. The track comes from the band’s forthcoming EP, Existential Shred, out September 9th. Vocalist/bassist G’Ra Asim says the tune is “a wry sendup of a classic hater’s lament, namely that marginalization is currency nowadays and social outgroups are fashionable. It’s a gripe that tends to reach your ears when you’re in a rock band that foregrounds queer punx and punx of color. We took that idea and ran with it: why not have a rallying cry [akin to Keri Hilson’s “Pretty Girl Rock”] repping all us twinkling tokens?”

Tuned Up writes: “The video is an homage to “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” by My Chemical Romance, borrowing its juxtaposition of inspiring title cards between scenes of private school life. It’s not out of the question that “Model Minority” could become an anthem of similar importance for queer folks and POC in the punk scene today.”