Release Wave
The best curated new music releases.
Our role
Product and brand build — Next.js, Spotify API integration, editorial design system, Vercel.
A curated music-discovery platform that surfaces new and underground releases through a release calendar, genre browsing, and a weekly newsletter.
Release Wave is a curated guide to new and underground music — alternative, emo, shoegaze, punk, and indie — surfacing the records worth hearing through a release calendar, artist and label directories, and a weekly newsletter.
We built it on Next.js with Spotify integration and an editorial, newsprint-inspired design that treats music discovery like a magazine you actually want to read. A continuously updated playlist connects the curation straight to the music.
A month-by-month calendar tracks upcoming records by drop date across a catalog of 900+ curated releases.
Browse 40+ genre tags — dream pop, grunge, emo — with search and multi-axis sorting by date, name, or recency.
A weekly email delivers new releases, premieres, and upcoming records straight to subscribers.
A continuously updated “The Wave” playlist links the editorial curation directly to listenable music.