Harry The Nightgown - "Pill Poppin' Therapist" | Post-Trash Premiere
The boundlessly creative Los Angeles-based duo Harry the Nightgown (mems of Cherry Glazerr) produce a catchy and playful slice of avant-rock on latest single “Pill Poppin’ Therapist.” Taken from their upcoming self-titled debut album, the track is packed with restless energy that pushes in several different directions at once.
Yawners - "Just Calm Down" | Album Review
Spain's Yawners honestly feels like they've emerged from a time capsule buried deep in the earth some time in the previous decade. The prickly, precious little confections they bake up on their latest album, Just Calm Down, are so delicate and delightful that they will feel like they could melt in your mouth.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 15th - June 21st)
Esther Rose - "My Favorite Mistakes" | Album Review
Catharsis has always lain within a truly heartbreaking country song: a few minutes of ached crying, staring into the abyss of romance and loss, and a temporary peace comes over the singer. This is something Esther Rose recognizes and so we have her new EP, filled with covers of some of her favorite depressing country anthems.
No Age - "Goons Be Gone" | Album Review
Built to Spill - "Built to Spill Plays The Songs of Daniel Johnston" | Album Review
This covers album is essentially a cleanup of Johnston’s ramshackle workings, an imagining of how the outsider artist may have sounded if he hadn’t been plagued by weighty personal issues and a lack of quality recordings. There is no attempt to match the wild spirit of Johnston - they couldn’t - instead offering a fair homage to the icon.
Virginia Trance - "Vincent's Playlist" | Album Review
Scott Ryan Davis (Psychic Ills) brings us an album vastly differing in tone to the experimental psychedelia of that band’s work, a welcomingly soft departure. Vincent’s Playlist feels intensely personal, a loving remembrance of the glory of guitar music. The songs scratch and soar as if they had arrived from a Flying Nun Records release.
The Cool Greenhouse - "The Cool Greenhouse" | Album Review
The Cool Greenhouse’s self-titled LP presents a series of nightmarish vignettes and seedy character studies to reveal the faux-idyllicism of provincial life. The band succeeds in crafting a matching sonic space to the album’s uncanny and foreboding lyrical world, where the true strength of their debut lies.
Wallplant - "Hooper" | Post-Trash Premiere
Wallplant is a solo project from Chicago’s Donny Walsh, a Chicago musician that has been busy with a wide breath of projects over the years (Stuck, Krozer, Surveillance). While it’s been three years since Wallplant released Understand, this week Walsh returns to the project with a new EP, Nothing For Sure.
Elder - "Omens" | Album Review
Jehnny Beth - "To Love Is To Live" | Album Review
Christelle Bofale "Skipping Stones (Demo)" + Sun June - "5 Years Time (Demo)" | Post-Trash Premiere
Set to release Slack Capital 3 on Friday, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Austin Justice Coalition, a local justice group that seeks to educate and build community. The 41 track compilation was curated by Eric Braden (Big Bill), Nathan Lankford (Austin Town Hall Records), and local booking agency Howdy Gals.
Suburban Living - "Indigo Kids" | Track Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 8th - June 14th)
Mr. Elevator - "Goodbye, Blue Sky" | Album Review
Their new album Goodbye, Blue Sky is an acid soaked voyage to the distant cosmos. It is sonically ambitious and rewarding. They’ve moved far beyond the garage pop sensibilities of Nico...and her Psychedelic Subconscious into a universe of dark atmospheric swells, lush vocals, and larger than life synth and organ arrangements.
ONO - "Red Summer" | Album Review
Their website header reads “The ONO Statement of Purpose: Experimental, Noise, and Industrial Poetry Performance Band Exploring Gospel's Darkest Conflicts, Tragedies and Premises.” Forty years into their existence, their motive remains incredibly potent; ONO’s artistic mission is as important as ever on Red Summer.
Varsity - "Fine Forever" | Album Review
Varsity’s sound has been revised with each release since they formed in 2013. What has remained static, though, is the persevering spirit at their core. Even when broaching darker topics, there is an optimism present that is absent from their peers. Their new album Fine Forever takes that resilience and embraces it at every juncture.
A Year of Wednesdays: An Interview with Grim Year Wednesdays' Judy Hong
Judy Hong who runs Quiet Year Records and organizes with Ice Cream Social in Richmond, VA, along with Nancy Grim Kells (Spartan Jet-Plex) and James Cassar, are part of the team responsible for Grim Year Wednesdays, an inventive online hybrid of interviews and performances with a focus on fundraising for the Virginia Anti-Violence Project.
Lance Bangs - "Whammy" | Album Review
Overall, their new EP serves as an excellent addition to the small but growing Lance Bangs discography. Prior fans of the band will be pleased with WHAMMY’s adherence to and progression of the singular style put on display with Lance Mountain. For new fans, it is the perfect place to dive in for the first time, all in just over eleven minutes.