Every week, Hype Monitor wades through the most buzzed-about bands all across the Internet to find the ones you need to hear now.

The Band: Blank Dogs
The Buzz: Joy Division stuck in a tape deck: New York band crafts weird, warbly new wave songs, spaced-out and singular.
Listen If: You’re not looking for the post-punk revival, but the post-punk reconstruction, where elements of the original sound are vastly and weirdly reconfigured.
Key Track: “No Compass,” a thick slab of off-kilter new wave smeared with thick synths and supported by spindly guitars.

The Band: Bowerbirds
The Buzz: North Carolina band brings full-on spooky folk songs, the sound of a million miner’s ghosts moaning in the 1880s countryside.
Listen If: You never quite grew out of campfire ghost stories.
Key Track: “Hooves,” a gorgeous, wheezing, rocking-chair folk song that moves from fragile beginning to soaring, swelling finale.

The Band: Brilliant Colors
The Buzz: Punky and spunky San Francisco band captures the wiry spirit of ’70s post-punk.
Listen If: Your record collection consists mainly of Raincoats, Slits and Tiger Trap records.
Key Track: “Should I Tell You,” where a loping vocal melody wraps lazily around bone-brittle guitars.