Floating Room - "Shimanchu" | Post-Trash Premiere
Floating Room have announced Shima, a new EP due out November 12th via Famous Class Records. With this one, the Portland band are getting heavier. The EP’s lead single is “Shimanchu,” a song that reflects Stoner’s Uchinanchu heritage and a retaliation to the condescension she faces daily as an Asian American woman.
Dazy - "MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs" | Album Review
These songs are like dropping diamonds into heavy machinery—the onslaught of fizzing melodies add warmth and a sense of familiarity to a barrage of fuzzy guitar tones and unrelenting, impersonable drum machine thud. There is a great deal of finesse and genuine, honest-to-goodness work involved in this compilation, but it doesn’t feel that way.
Blessed - "III" | Album Review
Smoke Bellow - "Open For Business" | Album Review
Smoke Bellow, the Baltimore-via-Australia psych-pop band, revels in fitting together wildly disparate influences to create wholly new sounds. Open for Business is an excellent slab of jigsaw pop, collecting pieces they’ve cut out over the course of their discography and arranging them into something beautiful and unexpected.
Bloodslide - "Bloodslide" | Album Review
Greg Ahee (Protomartyr), Mike Wallace (Preoccupations) and AJ Lambert (daughter of Nancy Sinatra), have teamed up to form Bloodslide, a trio that just released its first self-titled EP. All four songs straddle the border between unhinged noise and shatteringly beautiful moments in an otherwise stark and occasionally dismal EP.
Pearl & The Oysters - "Flowerland" | Album Review
Neckbolt - "Jawline" | Post-Trash Premiere
Austin’s Neckbolt are a new band that are making noise rock in their own way, deranged and slurred, loud and abrasive, but colorful and a bit psychedelic. It rips with amp blaring intensity but has a prismatic gleam, a sordid kind of fusion that sits somewhere between fellow Texans like Cherubs, Borzoi, and Butthole Surfers.
Tropical Fuck Storm - "Deep States" | Album Review
June Gloom - "TV Show" | Post-Trash Premiere
June Gloom is the solo project of Jesse Paller, a New York based musician and sound engineer. His records and steeped in indie rock traditionalism, but his songwriting is always impactful. Following a split release with Rock Solid back in 2018, June Gloom is here again with Destructive Children, a new full length due out on October 1st.
P.E. - "The Reason For My Love" | Album Review
Central Heat Exchange - "Central Heat Exchange" | Album Review
Babehoven - "Nastavi, Calliope" | Album Review
Nastavi, Caliope, the latest from Maya Bon’s Babehoven, is a must listen. Written in the wake of twin upheavals – the death of her dog and the reunion with her estranged father, the EP captures the sadness, anger, isolation, and monotony of these moments, transforming them into a musically and emotionally compelling seven tracks.
Battle Ave - "Fear Of" | Post-Trash Premiere
The Hudson Valley/Catskills based band are back with their strongest effort yet, a self-titled EP due out on October 8th. Known for a combination of ethereal folk, Americana, and lo-fi indie rock, there’s a “rural cabin in the trees” kind of feel to their music, one that should be of interest to fans of Big Thief and Trace Mountains.
Low - "HEY WHAT" | Album Review
HEY WHAT, Low’s stunning third album with BJ Burton, refines its predecessor’s approach, sculpting its slabs of noise into something more defined and accessible without losing any of the impact. It’s an album that grapples with the questioning of faith and the acknowledgement that the answers sought may never appear.
Steve Hartlett - "308" | Album Review
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J.R.C.G. - "Rainbow" | Post-Trash Premiere
Best known for Seattle’s Dreamdecay, Justin R. Cruz Gallego aka J.R.C.G., is stepping out on his own with a solo debut. Due out November 8th via Castle Face Records, Gallego uses the opportunity to widen the experimental pallet previously explored by his band, starting with a hypnotic punk template and wandering from there.
Lola Pistola - "Lizard EP" | Album Review
Caution - "Act Rich" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Each song on Caution hits with memorable hooks and sharp melodic earworms, as evident on early singles “Buy My Life” and “Swallow”. Seven months later and the band remind you to keep listening to their record, over and over again until the song’s sound like second nature (which they will), courtesy of a new video for “Act Rich”.