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ISSUE #3 Bad Omens put on quite the show in Philadelphia (Xfinity Mobile Arena) on Friday the 13th, and we were lucky enough to attend. From pop-up shops, to incredible visuals, to trading a Wawa hoagie for a drumstick, we really felt the love with Bad Omens in Philly! WE FELT THE LOVE WITH BAD OMENS IN PHILADELPHIA Just one week prior to the Philadelphia date of the “Do You Feel Love” tour (March 5th), fans in the area and visiting were notified of a unique pop-up shop with

Ash Rafferty May 25, 2026 Photo: Travis Shinn Everyone’s favorite emo icons are back with yet another surprise single from their album An Ending In Itself that is set to release in just less than a month on June 12th. ‘Paralyzed’ by Sleeping With Sirens is by far their best arranged single teasing their 8th album that blew us away, and we hope it did for you too. Beginning on March 16th of this year, Sleeping With Sirens began teasing their fanbase with some form of new cont

Mindy Rafferty May 14, 2026 Photo: @liammaxwellphotos There’s one band that has surprised us again and again. A UK, 2000s, Y2K, older brother music-core, four-member band known as South Arcade has blown us away once again with their newest single, 'SUPERMAN'. Harmony, Ollie, Cody, and Harry are a band that is making their mark on the music industry every day and are growing in popularity steadily. The British pop-punk band was formed in 2021in the United Kingdom by lead sing

Ash Rafferty April 20, 2026 Photo: @_lupe Our 8123 icons from Arizona are back with their tenth studio album titled Joy Next Door, and this one isn’t anything short of amazing, fun, and beautifully done to tug at the heartstrings of those who listen. The Maine has become a household name in the alternative scene. Founded in 2007 by drummer Pat Kirch and bassist Garrett Nickelsen, these icons have been making moves in the industry for nineteen years and counting. From their 2

Mindy Rafferty April 13, 2026 Photo: Bethan Miller-Carey Our favorite band from Wales are back and better than ever with their new single ‘Whisper of a Dream’ released April 2nd. Holding Absence started in 2017 with their duo-single release of ‘Permanent’ and ‘Dream of Me’, debuting their iconic moth logo. They were closely followed by ‘Penance’ and ‘Heaven Knows.’ 2018 Continued to be the year of Holding Absence. Releasing their This Is as One EP on February 16th, the debut

Ash Rafferty April 2, 2026 Photo: eazyvisuals From the city of Nashville, In Color’s been making moves and entering the alternative pop scene with a bang, and they’re doing it in style with their new single ‘Jet Lag Mouth’. After In Color’s successful 2025 EP release of Snow Day, the release of ‘Lighter’ that currently holds 700,000 streams, their three-song EP titled Snowed In containing slowed down, live renditions recorded at Blackbird Studios of ‘Headlights’, ‘Liar’, and

ISSUE #2 It’s no secret that the amount of concerts we attended in 2025 is nearly impossible to describe in one word, that would be downright ridiculous. But to give a few to set the mood for our concert season: chaotic, emotional, wild, energetic, and most of all memorable provides a wide genre of ways to try to put our 2025 experience into perspective. With well over 20 concerts attended together (and apart, Ash enjoyed crowd surfing to ‘Makedamnsure’ by Taking Back Sunday

ISSUE #1 The idea for DSALT came to us when various people in our lives continuously urged us to create any form of content to document our various adventures in the music industry. Over the course of our Winter break from college, we created this very website from the ground up with our first article already in mind: our top albums from 2016. AKA when we were ten years-old with not the most knowledge of the music industry. Regardless, the early-to-mid 2000’s had some of the