punk
-
Baltimore band Dope Body drops a new track and video titled “Leather Head.” The track comes from the band’s new 7″ EP on Drag City. The title: Saturday. The track brings the band’s usual combo of psych rock, punk, and sludge; however, the party attitude that I enjoyed
-
What we have here is a pretty interesting international collaboration between two hardcore bands Loma Prieta from the Bay Area of the U.S and Raein who hail from Italy. They’re both due to be featured on a forthcoming split on Deathwish. What we get from them is what
-
Italy’s Blue Willa has an eerie style that I’m digging a lot on this self-titled record of theirs. The folk-inspired simplicity, dissonant guitars, and sharp howls of the project’s frontwoman are all too potent to deny. Enjoy!
-
NEIGHBOR by Neighbor I like my sludge guttural, nasty, dirty, and bearded. I’ve never seen Louisville band Neighbor in person, so I can’t vouch for the band’s choice in facial hair, but those other three things are definitely there. The recording here is grimy, heavy, and somewhat
-
The Aussie garage rock outfit known as the Drones has a new album that just dropped titled I See Seaweed, and “How To See Through Fog” is an incredibly dramatic single from it. The band seeks to hit listeners emotionally with some forlorn pianos and downtrodden vocals. Enjoy!
-
Stop Breathing by Donovan Wolfington Donovan Wolfington is a rock group from New Orleans whose music works in a lot of layers. There’s a heavy sense of angst flowing throughout a lot of the tracks, but they groups never loses sight of essentials like melody, memorable riffs, and just
-
Radiation/Personal Planes 7" by PRIESTS Emotional, dramatic, and uncompromising, Preists make music that combines a punk attitude with a bit of spoken word. Stream their new 7″ via the widget above. /via/
-
Iceage’s sophomore full-length brings the same downtrodden, depressive ferocity that the band’s last album did, but with a bit more length and diversity. While it’s not exactly progressive, it’s still a blast–just like the debut LP. WATCH THE REVIEW
-
While the dreamy, guitar-driven indie pop of Beach Fossils wasn’t impressing me when the band’s music blew up on the blog-o-sphere several years ago, Clash The Truth is proof that some sounds just need time to develop. WATCH THE REVIEW
-
Thanks to the good people at Suicide Squeeze, two up-and-comers in the rough and wild world of garage and noise rock have a new split on the way. The 7″ single features new tracks from Vancouver’s Nü Sensae and Atlanta’s the Coathangers. Give a listen to both tracks