rock

  • album

    Native Sun by The Guru Some bright and eccentric rock coming from the new Guru album, Native Sun. It’s like a volcanic eruption of bright guitars, gruff vocals, and hyperactive grooves. It’s a Connecticut album for a Connecticut summer. Yeah, you could probably make a comparison to Modest

  • “No Feral Animal” “Jung Greezy” Connecticut’s Snake Oil have dropped its self-titled debut in a self-released and self-produced fashion today, making the album available via digital and vinyl on the Snake Oil website. The band has been kind enough to allow TND to stream two more colorful and psychedelic

  • On the Shivers’ More, the band’s frontman, Keith Zariello, comes off a little more lovesick than usual. The songs here deal with many flavors of love, but many of them don’t taste all that good. And intentionally so, because More doesn’t have a very positive outlook when

  • bobby

    Stream: BOBBY’s BOBBY Stream: Cults’ Cults Two new, self-titled albums are available for streaming right now from the good folks at NPR Music: Cults and BOBBY. Follow the links above and get your listen on!

  • balkans

    A new video from Balkans new, self-titled album, which it out now on Double Phantom. I reviewed it very positively over here. Simple, but weird.

  • New video from Maserati for the song “Pyramid of the Sun.” The track comes off the band’s latest album of the same title. I reviewed it last year, and had some pretty positive things to say about it. Freakin’ loved the grooves on most of this thing. Tons of

  • 60s

    Florian Droids by Florian Droids Uno, Dos, Tres, Quatro! Florian Droids’ self-titled debut LP goes from 60s psych to 70s prog through their bubbling Latin musical stew. These accomplished musicians have created a mashup of subconsciously familiar riffs and sounds from the days of album rock. These guys are bursting

  • airspray

    As I mentioned earlier this month, CIVIL CIVIC is currently raising funds for the release of their next album. So far, it looks like fundraising has been good to them. The $5,000 goal is within reach, it seems. The duo–trio if you count their drum machine box–has

  • If my son had made this album, I’d say this: “This is a strong debut, son. Strong debut.” WATCH THE REVIEW

  • highway to health by pneu I don’t know who the crazy mullet-haired boy is in the picture below, but he sure makes for a good album cover–especially when that cover is fronting an album of insanely tight instrumental rock. The band is pneu, and the album is highway