Dag och Natt is a band from Stockholm, Sweden, whose music strikes a delicate balance between dense and airy. Their melodies are intricately layered, often weaving together with a sense of fluidity, with vocals split between Elia Mårtensson Almegård, Sara Engström and Maja Zetterberg. The name Dag och Natt, which translates to Day and Night, was chosen with intention, reflecting the band’s desire to explore both the light and dark aspects of life through their music. Initially, the band entertained the idea of forming two separate projects – one light and one dark – with the same members. However, they soon abandoned this concept in favour of bringing everything together under the name Dag och Natt. The result is an album that embodies both joy and struggle, brightness and shadows, mirroring the interplay between day and night. The band’s creative process is both collaborative and intuitive. Writing sessions often take place in a secluded cabin in the woods, where the focus is solely on the music. The band explores themes of duality – the contrasts between love and loneliness, strength and vulnerability, connection and isolation. Their debut album, Years And Years out on August 15th via Labrador Records, reflects these themes, presenting a sonic landscape where light and darkness coexist. Rather than offering answers, Dag och Natt seeks to create space for listeners to reflect on their own experiences, embracing both the challenges and the beauty of life.

St Louis e’er-do-wells Bunnygrunt sprung fully formed into the Great Indie Pop Underground of the early 1990’s, when gas was cheap, 7” singles grew on trees, and every zine had a reader. After a hugely successful turn at 1994’s YoYo-A-GoGo festival and a steady stream of 45’s, the band hit the studio in early 1995 to record their full length debut Action Pants for LA scene makers No Life Records. Unfortunately, the band lineup shifted and the track list contracted between recording and release, leaving a few songs on the cutting room floor.
Now is the time to re-introduce the world to the Action Pants it needs now more than ever. Alongside the breezy perfection of Just Like Suppertime, the clattering feedback frenzy of GI2K, the jangle motorik of Open Up And Say Oblina, and the other hits you know and love, faithful Bungalos can now feast their ears on the shambling glory of Eggy Greggy, the transmission from another planet of Maude (in two parts!), and originally planned pre-release single Inanimate Objects. Meet Action Pants: The Thirtieth Anniversary Director’s Cut! A split release between Georgia’s Happy Happy Birthday To Me & St Louis’s Silly Moo, it’s just like the old one, only, like, better…
Action Pants 30th Anniversary Director’s Cut LP will be out on August 8th via HHBTM / Silly Moo Records. Early deluxe version orders come with a Bunnygrunt board game. 

Indiepop fans of the WORLD, unite!
Today we have the honor and opportunity to introduce you to a wonderful German duo: The Simple Present. They are an indie pop band from Stuttgart, in southwestern Germany, composed of Cathrin and Sabine. They met at university, where they were both studying to become English teachers. Their love for pop, and indie pop in particular, is evident in the two songs that make up their first single, available for a long time only as a limited physical 7″ lathe cut (KUS-LC 01) exclusively available at Cologne Popfest 2025.
One of the tracks included on the 7″, the first version of Summer Triangle, was released on all streaming platforms on June 22, 2025, and now, exclusively on TRISTE©, you can also listen to the second track, I’ll Take That with Me, which will soon also be available on the band’s Bandcamp page.
Their debut mini-album, which is currently being recorded, will be released on Germany’s top indiepop label, Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten, in late 2025 or early 2026.

Kristin Hersh is a pivotal character in American indie music scene and the undisputed leader of Throwing Muses: her stance against the exploitation of female imagery and her music, which never indulges in the pursuit of easy hooks, and the angry roar with which she declaims difficult and scathing lyrics made her one of the most influential artists in the past forty years. With twelve solo records (from Hips And Makers in 1993 to Clear Pond Road in 2024) and twelve Throwing Muses records (the latest, Moonlight Concessions, out earlier this year via Fire Records), Hersh could be considered a real rockstar. Yet, she is a wonderful person and a truly music lover: upon meeting her, what strikes first is her open smile and refreshing, sincere laugh. She’s a genuine artist, eager to convey her overwhelming love for music to everyone she meets. Her eyes light up with enthusiasm and sparkle whenever she’s asked to talk about her songs, which she considers, more than works of her own intellect, to be true living organisms. Children to be cuddled, raised, and released into the world. That’s why she was so happy to give us a magnificent TRISTE© Mixtape that now we can share with you all. Enjoy!