New York’s Blue Yonder only formed in the early months of 2020, but yet somehow they’ve been productive enough to write and record Ladies of the Night, their debut record. Out 9/25 via Spirit Lust, the band sound awfully promising based on their first single, the swooning and dreamy Americana tinged “Lover of Mine.”
Speckled with slacker anthems and folk charmers, Dark Tones’ Pulling Nails Out of Walls catalogues the loneliness, the pointlessness, and the weight of being an island. The record aims to make sense of one’s own solitude, or at least to sharpie “I WAS HERE” on the inside of a bathroom stall, just to prove one’s own existence.
Nova Scotia rockers Kestrels want to remind you of another era and their latest album Dream Or Don’t Dream is their love letter to ‘90s rock, mixing the hushed aesthetics of shoegaze with the fuzz and energy of power-pop. In its meshing of big-name rock backing talent and its commitment, Kestrels will find an interested audience.
Future Punx’s 2020 took everything loved about their contemporaries and amped it up a notch. It is one of those records that, especially in our current situation, makes you want to walk out the front door and go see any live band and dance. It is something special. Our interview with the band’s Jake Pepper via e-mail confirms this theory.
Last month, multidisciplinary wunderkind Dan Drohan released the genre-evasive You’re a Crusher/drocan! The album is a pop record doing the best it can to hide the fact that it is a pop record. Today we’re premiering the video for “Leave It Loading,” the stunning opener, filmed in collaboration with cinematographer Emile Bertherat.
Psychic Energy are that new Western MA band you need to know, and some of the band’s members may already be familiar. The trio of Candace (Bunny’s A Swine, Footings), Dana (Ex-Temper), and Josh (The Capitulators) may only be on a first name basis to us, but it’s fitting as their debut EP, Post Nothing, feels welcoming.
The goal of Abscess Time isn't aimed at kicking against the boundaries of the existent heavy music scene, but rather to give better definition to those lines that have been previously drawn. I think it's clear that in refining rather than expanding their sound, Pyrrhon have given us a more precise picture of what they're capable of.
Possible Humans is a five-piece band out of Melbourne, for those that love guitars and driving bass lines. Everybody Split is their first full length, initially released in April 2019 as a small run by Hobbies Galore. This initial run was followed by a US and worldwide release in August by Trouble in Mind Records based out of Chicago.
Vanishing DMC recorded their self-titled album in 2016, a dirgy punk record that it splattered with idiosyncrasies unique to the band’s leader, the late Danny “Monster” Cruz. As a member of Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth, Cruz made sprawling performance art, but with DMC, it’s all deconstructed punk and raw basement cacophony.
The band sounds absolutely massive throughout the album. The instrumentals hit with precision; look no further than the guitar attack of “Processed By The Boys” and “I Am You Now,” or the push and pull of “Modern Business Hymns”. Joe Casey sounds like vintage Nick Cave, delivering fire and brimstone truths over the din.
The track addresses the haunting presence of a known abuser, one who has been exiled for the safety of a community. It questions the implications of excommunication, considering the danger said abusers may pose to the next community they find. We spoke with Landowner vocalist and songwriter Dan Shaw about Landowner, his architecture work and his personal life.
