There’s no denying the cult status Park has grown over the past few years. A status so remarkable, it captured the attention of acclaimed independent label Get Better Records, who chose to release Pictoria Vark’s debut LP The Parts I Dread. On it, she does nothing but deliver one of the best indie rock debuts of the year.
Philadelphia's Nine of Swords put out one of the year's best punk records with BEYOND THE SWORDS. Today they premiering a full-length visualizer for the album, directed by Shannon Brooks, founding member of Hook&Loop, a Philadelphia-based accessible artist collective and network led by Disabled and Chronically Ill people.
"Deep End Dive" is the first single from the Cincinnati based singer-songwriter, with a charismatic summertime video as well. This single is a precursor to her upcoming debut full length Goose, produced by Sima Cunningham. She sounds resigned, but there is a dark thrill in her voice, she's quietly excited for what's coming next.
It is everything you could want a Viagra Boys album to sound like. The thing about Cave World is that it probably won’t convince anyone to change their beliefs, but it’s not trying to. What it does do is point out how absurd some of these things are. It does this perfectly and on top of that it lets the listener have a great time while it does this.
Snakeskin is set to return with a new full length, Summoning Salt, and while details are hazy, the lead single “Spinning Heart” and its accompanying video are immaculate. From the ominous start to the lush acoustics and slow grooving rhythm, Snakeskin sets up a sweeping landscape of natural tones, tangled, and accented in atmosphere.
For Frances Chang, psychedelia can be found in the crosshairs of art rock, freak folk, bedroom punk, and more in a soupy mess of modified consciousness. On her first full-length under her own name, support your local nihilist, all those influences coagulate into an unapologetically honest and intense expression of her irreplicable vantage point.
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.
