Mega Bog - "End of Everything" | Album Review
Where do you go when it feels like everything is ending? Mega Bog confronts that idea on End of Everything, a project that dares to take an undaunted look at all things daunting. Its a genre-bending, thunderous trip, defined by explosive choruses, blood-pumping Italo disco bass lines, and songwriting that packs a punch.
Half Stack - "I Might Try" | Post-Trash Premiere
Half Stack return with Sitting Pretty, their third full length, due out October 6th via Forged Artifacts and Royal Oakie Records, capturing feelings of isolation and the need to reconnect. With clean guitars, easy progressions, harmonized vocals, and dips into power-pop bliss, the band continue to evolve in real time.
Soft Idiot - "Some Captured Light" | Album Review
In 2021, Justin Roth decided to retire Soft Idiot. Now, in 2023, he’s returned, not only with a new album, but a new touring lineup, and seemingly, a renewed energy towards life, art making, and observation. This new release, Some Captured Light, is a record that breathes a decisive sense of relaxation and rumination from its very onset.
Prewn - "But I Want More" | Post-Trash Premiere
Izzy Hagerup (aka Prewn) spent the pandemic writing and fleshing out songs, challenging herself in the seclusion of the studio to expand her ideas. The results are staggeringly beautiful and triumphantly visceral. Those sessions arrive as Through The Window, a solo record that brings her songs to life with a uniquely personal touch.
Lifeguard: The Shape of Punk to Come | Feature Interview
A week before the release of Dressed In Trenches, Lifeguard sat down with Post-Trash to set the record straight about their influences, how they go about writing their brand of ferocious, angular guitar music, rad tour spots, cool bands in an exploding Chicago local scene, and how they stay sane on the road.
Sword II - "Spirit World Tour" | Album Review
Sword II have been dwelling in their local DIY underground. Coming together as titans of their scene and community, they’ve spent the last five years playing shows around Atlanta, aiding in protests and experimenting in their basement practice space. Their new album Spirit World Tour is a product of these sentiments.
Gentle Heat - "Myth" | Post-Trash Premiere
With a shift in the line-up forthcoming, Gentle Heat come together to create Trick, an EP that maps where they’ve been as much as it highlights where they’re headed. Due out September 8th, the songs approach shoegaze with a swarming pop quality, more concerned with rhythmic pulses and swooning hooks than layered distortion.
Big|Brave - "Nature Morte" | Album Review
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Itchy & The Nits - "Itchy & The Nits" | Album Review
Itchy and the Nits are today’s most genuine garage punk three-piece from Sydney, Australia. Rubbing shoulders with the likes of Tee Vee Repairmann, who recorded this tape, the band dabble in moody garage riffs that their melodies imitate well, digestibly simple lyrics, and varying vocal duties that keep choruses fresh and oblivious every listen.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: PJ Harvey - "I Inside The Old Year Dying"
Set in the woods of Harvey’s hometown of Dorset, I Inside The Old Year Dying constructs a folk-horror universe with the assistance of longtime collaborators, Flood and John Parish. Old Dorset dialect, musique concrète, field recordings, audio libraries, and standard instruments reshaped create surreal sounds that transport listeners.
GEL - "Only Constant" | Album Review
Only Constant foundationally resists pretentiousness. The music is physical and the band is earnest. GEL’s music, message and motive seem to be all in alignment– achieving an oft sought after goal for a band on the rise. On their full-length debut, GEL offers open arms to all that may fall in – no matter the form you might take.
African Head Charge - "A Trip To Bolgatanga" | Album Review
On A Trip To Bolgatanga, African Head Charge’s first new album in twelve years, lies a multicolored vision of psychedelic textures, sounds, and surely, a deep mystification of the outer realms of dub and reggae. Active since the early 1980s in the UK, the band encapsulates the spiritual drumming of Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and producer Adrian Sherwood’s philosophy.
Rick Froberg Inspired a Generation of Musicians Like Me | Feature
Rick Froberg, vocalist and guitarist of San Diego post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, died Friday June 30th at age 55. As the tributes have come pouring in, it’s clear Froberg had an outsized influence on modern guitar music. While this piece is a tribute to Froberg, it’s also a personal reckoning with a musician who in many ways was a cypher of my own lived experience.
Rong - "Coincidence" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Just in time for their on-going tour with Sea Moss, Rong return with a split EP together with Massachusetts’ The Cost Ov Living, released via Mutual Aid Records. The songs are brutal and sludgy at times, piercing with distortion as they break into a sprint, the whole thing always threatening to collapse, but instead shifting directions mid collision.
The Chives - "Supervision" | Album Review
it’s unlikely you won’t find something to love, or at the very least be entertained by on Supervision. The Chives have grown, if not necessarily matured, in both line-up and sound since their 2020 self-titled debut, but they haven’t lost the youthful exuberance and raw production that made that album work.
7xvethegenius & DJ Green Lantern - "The Genius Tape" | Album Review
7xvethegenius and DJ Green Lantern’s The Genius Tape is every bit as brilliant as the name would have you believe. The ten song project clocks in just under 29 minutes, but 7xvethegenius makes every second count. The Genius Tape is packed with witty lyricism, introspective self-reflection, and lush imagery.
