Rock Music For the Wild Hearts - October 2025
As October settles in, the world tilts darker, wilder, and louder. Get your hands on these 13 bangers to keep the fire burning when the days start to fade.
Featuring The Moss, Chore, Ryan Redwood, Teen Creeps, The Boojums, WHITEHORSE, Whitehall, da nang, Next Week's Washing, Laura Cox, Ash Molloy, The Quality Of Mercury, and Howling Bells
Rock Music for the Wild Hearts ♥️ Alternative / Indie / Hard Rock / Garage
The Moss - Oasis
The Moss step into the light with Oasis, a track that breathes both fragility and fire. Guitars stack into shimmering layers, weaving around Tyke James's voice; sometimes soft, sometimes pressing with passion, as he sings "You became my oasis / And I let my arms down for good". That moment feels like a surrender and a salvation at once.
The rhythm section holds steady, letting the momentum swell until the end bursts into a full-blown sonic explosion of drums, keys, and bass. Drawn from their Free Ride EP, Oasis is a song that holds space for longing, where connection feels like both refuge and risk.
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Chore - King
Photo credit: Mitch Barnes
Taken from Oswego Park, a fiery drum lick kicks the song into a jagged sprint, and the band never lets go. Angular riffs, rotating time signatures, and interlocking guitars push the track like a machine learning itself into anger. Chris's clipped vocals cut through the churn with lines like "I'm not ready to change my body", turning private defiance into a public howl. The samples at the end feel like a cold, ironic punctuation.
King sounds physical: earth-shattering bass, stop-start attacks, and a payoff that hits like a struck anvil.
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Ryan Redwood - The Back Room
The Back Room unfurls like a restless confession; guitar lines ringing against organ swells, carried by a steady beat that never quite lets the tension ease. Redwood's voice leans into the fight with his own mind, circling around the refrain "over and over again" until it feels like a weight you can't shake.
The climb toward the chorus has a cinematic edge, like headlights cutting through heavy rain, building to a release that still feels unresolved.
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Teen Creeps - Hiss
Hiss snaps and coils like a live wire, with Bert Vliegen's vocals cutting over a tight, punchy rhythm section anchored by Ramses Van den Eede's crisp drums and Bert's bass. Joram De Bock's guitar licks jolt through the track, adding bursts of tension that match its sharp, 90s-tinged energy.
Taken from their third album, Today Is The Day - it’s tense, electric, and alive.
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The Boojums - Burnin' Up
Photo Credit: Belinda Naugler Adams
Taken from Nova Scotia rock trio The Boojums' upcoming self-titled debut (out 31 October), Burnin' Up blazes with garage-born riffs and Willie Stratton's vocals howling like sparks off steel. The trio lock in tight - Sara Johnston's bass snarling low while Patrick Murphy drives the beat forward like an open-road engine.
It's a song about desire, but the delivery feels more like ignition: hungry, hot, unstoppable.
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WHITEHORSE - Red Riptide
Red Riptide strikes with sharp-edged guitars, bass lines that move like undercurrents, and drumming with relentless momentum. Thomas Haywood's voice carries a simmering tension, rising into a full-throttle cry as the song crests.
Written in the wake of floodwaters tearing through a riverbank, it channels that rush of unstoppable force; not chaos, but clarity.
With Red Riptide, WHITEHORSE set their sound as both fearless and elemental, a statement of intent from a band already turning heads.
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Whitehall - Breakdowns
Photo credit: David Patiño
Breakdowns takes the weight of burnout and spins it into something bright; jangly guitars chiming against a rhythm section that keeps pressing forward. Paddy McKiernan's vocals sound both weary and determined, carrying that late-night feeling of hitting the wall but choosing to push through.
The chorus rings out with a defiant uplift, turning exhaustion into release. Taken from National Finals Rodeo, it shows Whitehall at their most open-hearted and immediate.
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da nang - Kids
Taken from their album with the same name, Kids glows with sunlit guitars and buoyant rhythms, yet carries a shadow just beneath the surface. John Thai sings of young love with the intensity of knowing it's fragile, every line tinged with both joy and heartbreak.
It feels like a summer drive where laughter and loss ride in the same backseat - a radiant, bittersweet anthem.
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Next Week's Washing - Bilford Brown
Photo credit: Hayden Armstrong
Next Week's Washing channel shoegaze shimmer and Britpop grandeur on Empty Pages, a euphoric single that swells with amber light and the bittersweet pull of endings and beginnings.
Anchored by a glowing sibling harmony between Miles and Julian Duffy, the track builds from a wistful chord progression into widescreen guitar walls. Its lyrics see life's blank spaces as both uncertainty and invitation.
Produced by Dylan Frankland and mastered by Noah Mintz, it's a polished statement of intent. With their debut EP on the way, the Toronto trio mark themselves as a band to watch.
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Laura Cox - Do I Have Your Attention
Laura Cox rockets straight out of the amp on Do I Have Your Attention?, a fistful of distorted riffs and saturated leads that hit like a lightning strike. Every chug and crash feels like a dare, a collision of classic rock heart and modern, merciless punch.
Her vocals slice through the frenzy, playing with the thrill of letting go and the rush of testing limits. Loud, fiery, and unmistakably Laura Cox.
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Ash Molloy - nice to know you
Ash Molloy comes out swinging on nice to know you, a fiery alt-rock farewell that turns betrayal into a rallying cry. Her vocals cut sharp and unflinching over a wall of guitars, the chorus built for fists-in-the-air sing-alongs.
This is the sound of toxic ties burning away - painful, freeing, and loud enough to set the past on fire.
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The Quality Of Mercury - Heaven's Gate
Photo by Matthew Hamm
Taken from the upcoming album The Voyager (out on October 24), The Quality of Mercury's Heaven’s Gate turns cosmic longing into a rush of alt-rock energy, where space-rock atmospherics collide with bright, driving hooks, making you feel like you're flying through the dark with the stars just out of reach.
Inspired by the cult but reframed as a personal search for something bigger, it burns with both wonder and urgency. Rouse has built a galaxy of sound, and with Heaven's Gate, he throws the door wide open and invites us to step through.
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Howling Bells - Unbroken
Photo Credit: David Titlow
A decade gone, and they come back swinging. "I'll break it all apart again, I’ll pull the threads once woven, somehow I'm still unbroken."
Juanita Stein claws it out of the dark, her ethereal voice riding a storm of heavy, cinematic guitars. The track swells like a midnight highway, every wrong turn bleeds into a skyward anthem. Produced with longtime ally Ben Hillier, Unbroken proves that Howling Bells are still dreamers, still fighters, and still making indie rock that flickers like neon against the night.
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About Eugenia Roditis
Eugenia's passion for music was ignited from an early age as she grew up in a family of musicians. She loves attending concerts and festivals, while constantly seeking fresh and exciting new artists across diverse genres. Eugenia joined the MusicnGear team in 2012.
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