8. Aye Nako
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRoA24SjJKU Aye Nako deals with issues of racial fetishization and gender identity through crooked instrumentation and stilted melodies that work in every sense to turn punk on its head. The band certainly works to be a part of a growing group of musicians that provide a voice for Queer PoC in alternative music scenes, a voice that has often been stifled. Songs such as "White Noise" off of the band's most recent record The Blackest Eye mainly focus on singer Mars Ganito's internalized racism from growing up in a society where whiteness is the norm and blackness is consistently defined as something less than. This disparity is echoed in modern indie rock scenes and Aye Nako is part of the many bands working to dismantle it. Through the band's fuzzy, jagged guitar work, they are already well on their way. Recommended albums: The Blackest Eye and Unleash Yourself