Welcome to AP A-sides, where we’re highlighting the very best songs from the past week. Every Friday, the AP editors will wade through the daunting number of tracks released daily, narrow down their favorites, and give them to you in one playlist. Because the definition of alternative is constantly in flux, there are no rigid parameters to our selections — just tracks we’re obsessively talking about and listening to on repeat. This week’s playlist features artists diverse in genre but singular in sound, including daine, N8NOFACE, Cold Gawd, Porcelain, Total Wife remixing Joyer, and more.
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Check out our picks below, and stay informed about everything coming out in July with our monthly album release calendar.
AP A-sides – July 17, 2026
- After – “Take Me to Sunrise”
- Ceremony – “Dark Summer”
- Cold Gawd – “Grease”
- daine – “Love Love (Love Love)”
- Dry Cleaning – “I Have The Key”
- Joyer – “Tell Me” (Total Wife remix)
- N8NOFACE – “Paranoid”
- Porcelain – “Apocalypse”
- Shock Corridor – “Ambulance!”
- Slow Fiction – “turning down flowers”