Bedbug - "Pack Your Bags The Sun Is Growing" | Album Review
Nihiloceros - "Skipper" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Directed by Jen Meller, the video accompanies the storming tenacity and aggressive attitude that pours forth from the roaring beast that is Nihiloceros. The band have been treading their path in the NYC punk/underground scene for close to a decade now and haven't lost any of their bite and hostility as the track makes patently clear.
The Deals - "Freeway" | Post-Trash Premiere
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Skeletal Remains - "Fragments of the Ageless"
The Los Angeles based quartet are making death metal records the way they love them, raw, mountainous, and classic. Fragments of the Ageless, the band’s fifth album is a colossal homage to riffs… big fucking nasty riffs, riffs that shred, riffs with hooks, brilliant razor sharp riffs, riffs that decimate everything else to rubble.
Verity Den - "Live at Nightlight" | Post-Trash Premiere
With Verity Den’s record out now (via Amish Records), the band are getting ready to hit the road together, supporting Rosali, but before they do, they’ve shared “Live at Nightlight”. The live performance video captures the band playing both “Priest Boss” and “Prudence,” a pair of songs that highlight the different sides of their sound.
Sheer Mag - "Playing Favorites" | Album Review
To play something that people often define as “straightforward” pop pock of any kind is actually not that straightforward at all. If you add certain not so straightforward elements in there, no matter how small, you have to throw in a wrench at points to make it work. That is exactly what Sheer Mag do on their third album, Playing Favorites.
Pissed Jeans Don’t Try Too Hard and Do Music For Fun | Feature Interview
During our 33-minute conversation, Matt Korvette, the 42-year-old vocalist of Pissed Jeans, says “fun” eleven times and “fan” six times. The Sub Pop mainstays out of Philadelphia dropped their sixth album, Half Divorced, and Korvette has it on repeat. Approaching two decades as a band, Pissed Jeans are writing great songs that they enjoy jamming out to.
Despondent - "5am" | Album Review
5am is the latest EP from Caution's Nora Button under the guise of Despondent, delivering another heavy blow in her clouded and confessional songwriting. More stripped down, these recordings consist of herself and infrequent drums and percussion by Jaxon Vesely, heightening the intimacy of Button's tales of disconnect and longing.
Ducks Ltd. - "Harm's Way" | Album Review
Harm’s Way picks up where they left off and has improved their formula tremendously. In just 27 quick minutes, they create earworm after earworm, the kind of songs you can listen to over and over with a big smile on your face. The record is the perfect accompaniment for a bright spring day when the sun is shining and all is right in the world.
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Lasso - "Ordem Imaginada" | Album Review
On each of their EP’s, Brazil’s Lasso have operated with the kind of focus that shows a mastery over the genre, but more than that, a fondness for the tools they’ve chosen to express their discontent. Ordem Imaginada tightens up the d-beat indebted hardcore that they’ve been refining over their last couple of releases, avoiding all flash..
Tomato Flower In Peak Bloom | Feature Interview
Tomato Flower squish together on a couch, where they fill in each other’s sentences and pass the proverbial mic to the next member with ease, only pausing to burst into laughter. Each answer unfurls into a tangent that pulls back the curtain on their ambitious songwriting process and desire to see their best friends succeed individually and together.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Astrel K - "The Foreign Department"
The Foreign Department is Rhys Edwards’ (of Ulrika Spacek) follow up to 2022’s impressive Flickering I, released under the name Astrel K. Under this moniker, Edwards’ pop sensibility is more transparently laid bare. There’s equal parts hooks, sweet melancholy, and beautiful song arrangements throughout the album.
Bloody Head - "Perpetual Eden" | Album Review
Nottingham’s whistling whirlwind of chaos, Bloody Head, make themselves heard loud and (mostly) clear with their seventh release, Perpetual Eden. The album extends to the listener a deep dive into the contemporary human condition in a way unique to the band – through cleansing noise, harsh epiphanies, and beautifully messy lyricism.
A Country Western - "The Dreamer" | Post-Trash Premiere
Why Bother? - "Some Don't Dance" | Post-Trash Premiere
It’s been nearly five months since their last album, so naturally the Mason City based quartet are getting ready to release a new album, Serenading Unwanted Ballads, due out March 22nd via Feel It Records. Their latest is primarily split between balls-to-wall grooves and reverberating romanticism, but the record acts as a sonic grab bag of ideas.
Frances Chang - "Psychedelic Anxiety" | Album Review
The sophomore album of this New York art punk is a sensory amalgamation of haunting memories and chromatic films, gift wrapped in angelic gauze. With allusions to Deerhoof’s eclectic instrumentation, the groove is grafted onto Jeff Buckley’s sweeping romanticism, then filtered through ambient progressive rock.
Bingo Fury - "Bats Feet For A Widow" | Album Review
Wallplant - "Live at Jamdek" | Post-Trash Premiere
While it’s been a couple years since their last record, Wallplant, now a full band, are out there doing their thing, creating bent lo-fi post-punk and power-pop that feels animated, alien, and incessant. The recently filmed Live at Jamdek session captures the band in the studio, working through songs old and new.