Seven years after the release of Geronimo!’s final EP, the trio of Ben Grigg, Kelly Johnson, and Matt Schwerin have come together once again, with a new project, Big Big Bison. The trio finds Schwerin once again on drums, while Johnson has moved to bass, and Grigg to guitar and vocals. Instrumental changes aside, the chemistry remains.
Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Dominique Matelson has just released her new record The Instruction Manual. Post-Trash caught up with her to discuss her relationship with her voice, the circumstances surrounding the creation of her new album, what compels her to make art, reinventing yourself during a pandemic, and more.
The Unscratchable Itch is a cavalcade of character studies and personal exhortations, shouted and yelped over a constant stampede. The noise and fury never relent but the hooks find their way in, and there’s room to interpret the scorn and disdain in Sniffany’s world. The band sat down to offer a track-by-track insight into the album, breaking down themes and lyrical inspirations.
Anarcho-punk outfit Bad Breeding are back with their fourth full-length release, Human Capital, through One Little Independent Records and Iron Lung Records. The album is chalked with aggressive layers of sound wrapped up in lyrics that address societal problems which have been ushered in through years of suffering under capitalism.
Fime’s Sweeter Memory is a rock album in the way rock albums rarely get made anymore, one that revels in its influences without succumbing to them. The album subsumes the band’s influences – power pop, country, psychedelia, surf rock, emo, and punk – and then produces good songs which sound uniquely themselves.
There are times in Taciturn’s “Wretch” where it seems like the intensity might be letting up–the screaming tremolo guitars might be leveling off, the bass throb might be bringing it back down to earth–but each time, the Phoenix and LA-based noise punk trio only let the distortion ripple out for a brief moment before charging forward again.
Paternoster’s reputation as a virtuoso guitarist, forged through innumerable scorching sets with Screaming Females, was surely sustained with beautifully intricate, bold solos. It was also a departure from the particular intensity of the Females—venturing into new compositional terrain with a dreamier sound.
After a few years playing together around Canada and the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver’s Megamall have released their debut EP, Escape From Lizard City. Out now via Fanta Records, the band (which includes members of Supermoon, Dumb, etc), play a catchy strain of indie rock that’s as indebted to 90’s alternative rock as it is lo-fi pop.
Originally released in 2018, the record was apparently slept on until Double Double Whammy re-released it with new studio recordings by the band, but also included the demos that comprised the first record. Songwriter and bandleader Peter Gill originally recorded all the instruments on it, but the re-release features full band arrangements.
EIEIEIO released four EPs in the span of a year, each with a frantic chaos, mixing technicality and a reckless nature with accessibility and brevity. Their songs are short, hooky, and utterly wild. This past weekend saw the first anniversary of their split with Gorgeous, and for all who celebrate, we have two brand new videos from the team.
We don’t always get closure, but we deserve closure. In These Arms Are Snakes’ case, it took twelve years for the Seattle institution to close the door on what is one of the weirder and wilder catalogs in punk. Post-Trash’s Jordan Michael sat down with Brian Cook to discuss the band’s end, their legacy, and getting back together to close it out.
The Virginia veteran has pushed his coke laced raps and menacing flows through decades, staying solid through a quickly changing commercial rap landscape. Four years after the release of the Daytona he returns with his excellent fourth record It’s Almost Dry, a celebration of form and technique as consistent in tone as it is in quality.
Obsessions with bending the mainstream into 90s culture and reaching Cobain-levels of fame have dominated Momma’s new direction, with not only the overarching album message, but also with their music videos. Momma seems to be wearing that kind of influence and curiosity on their sleeves, in terms of championing the 1990s.
New Haven-based quartet The Tines deliver an exquisitely-arranged piece of urgent indie pop on lead single "Collarbone," from their upcoming self titled debut album. Led by the boundlessly melodic songwriting of S.G. Carlson, the track glides through peaks and valleys under the power of soaring Western-inspired guitar leads
Back in May we premiered the excellent double-sided single “Feelin’ Far” b/w “Everybody” from the increasingly prolific Chicago project Old Joy. It’s been a busy year for frontman Alex Reindl, who has since released the Go Away Evil EP while gigging aplenty. Today, we’re excited to premiere the accompanying “Feelin’ Far” video.
Black Midi continually evolve to the theatricality of the spectacle. They will stop at nothing to conjure and bring us for the spectacle. At long last, Hellfire is their studio album level spectacle; available for home surround sound systems, car CD players, tape decks, or the transient online comatose system of the internet.
