NPR is pulling out all the stops for your Thursday – the website is streaming First Listens and new material from no fewer than six different phenomenal acts today, so your excuses for listening to thousands of different versions of 1989 because you “need new music” are officially invalid. Here’s a rundown of today’s lineup:

Wavves
V

Nathan Williams and co. are at it again with Wavves’ highly anticipated sixth full-length, V. After a label-related Twitter spat that cast some doubt over the album’s release, the band proves they’ve still got it, if by “it” we’re talking super-catchy punk-influenced slacker pop.

Deafheaven
New Bermuda

Deafheaven might be the most polarizing band in metal right now, and New Bermuda is no exception. On this follow-up to the success of 2013’s Sunbather, the band isn’t afraid to juxtapose hallmark standards of black metal with major-chord pop riffs that could almost be described as sunny. In fact, maybe their fearlessness to genre-blend and call upon such a vast host of influences is more metal than anything else out there today.

Childbirth
Women’s Rights

Here’s the Kathleen Hanna comparison you guessed was coming – Seattle trio Childbirth embrace the punk take-no-shit ethos to run the lyrical gamut of feminist issues, all spliced over upbeat power-pop riffs that evoke early Green Day in a really good way. If you’re looking to smash the patriarchy with a smile on, this one’s for you.

Other notable new music:

Sports – “Get Bummed Out”

Born Ruffians – Ruff

Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap