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We want to get to know more about the heart of the art! What has been your craziest experience when creating your album? Oh wow… There have been a few. This album “Fly Around” had a very disjunct path to its birth. One of the craziest experiences was the fact that people were actually willing […]
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We want to get to know more about the heart of the art! What has been your craziest experience when creating your album? For ‘Cacophony’, it was definitely right in the middle of quarantine in June 2020. We used the thermometer gun thingy so much it was credited on the album! Social distance is fairly easy […]
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As much an agent of seduction as either of the vocals in this track are, the groove supporting Mel Pacifico and Uness in RockLee’s “It’s a Feeling” has a rhythmic command over the audience from the moment we press the play button forward. There’s no separation between the singers and the beat in this single; […]
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It’s really easy to fall in love with the North American underground right now, and if you’re keeping up with Canada’s own Wave 21 at the moment, you already know exactly what I’m talking about. The formerly insular Canadian circuit has been producing smashing content from the likes of Wave 21 for several years now, but the band’s new record Brace Yourself is […]
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A quaint strum here, an aggressive harmony there. Spun together out of fragmented melodies and broken emotions reimagined in lyrics, we find a bittersweet story to behold in the new album String Ladders from The Color Forty Nine that perhaps speaks to the fractures in alternative music, both self-created and aesthetically inevitable. In songs like the short […]
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In Cold Stares riveting and dynamic new effort, Heavy Shoes changes speeds and tempos and presents the band’s gift of creating songs with freedom and clarity. Breathtaking in scope, Heavy Shoes takes the listener on a ride back to the days of Iron Maiden, Soundgarden and classic White Stripes. WEBSITE: https://www.thecoldstares.com/?tag=heavyshoes Each song is perfectly […]
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Little King is a band with a backstory that astounds many, and confounds a few. It was 25 years ago, that Ryan Rosoff decided it was time to branch out on his own from his prior band, and find his inner royalty. Since that time, Little King has gone through multiple iterations, and even a […]
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At once reminiscent of the growling tonal menace of The Stooges and something even further left of the dial, Eagle Johnson’s fretwork in the new album The Last Gun is probably the biggest reason it left me hypnotized upon hearing it for the first time. For the past ten years, good guitar rock has been inconceivably hard […]
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Indie rock’s greatest moments have always been born of experimentations rebellious and reckless alike, and Paul Rocha’s new LP Apophenia seems to embody a little bit of both inside of its ten captivating tracks. From the haunting, Beat Happening-style “Sister Silhouette” to the fiercer “Sweet Marianne,” Apophenia sees Rocha dabbling in poetic complexities more than he is instrumental virtuosities, […]
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When it comes to maintaining consistency in content and energy, the guys in Pistols At Dawn are experts. Any project you listen to by them feels as concise and focused as the last, and their latest EP, Nocturnal Youth, is no exception. The four tracks are all extremely well-produced, and they each feel inevitably destined […]
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