Oct 10, 2024 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
trauma ray have mastered shoegaze’s complexity, intensity, and expressive devastation. Their powerful new single “Bardo” is eerie, veering between noisy one string bends and surging headbang, mapping a middle ground between Unwound and nu-metal. trauma ray...
Oct 8, 2024 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
A harrowing document of life, death and transcendence, Do You Still Love Me? is the fifth album from Planes Mistaken for Stars, the band’s second outing for Deathwish and first new music since 2016. It is also the first PMFS release since the death of Gared O’Donnell,...
Oct 3, 2024 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Norfolk, Virginia based musician Elliott Malvas will hit the road this fall for a U.S. tour as a member of Boston indie rock legends The Swirlies from 10/31-11/9 which includes an appearance at Levitation Fest on Friday November 1st. This week Malvas released a new...
Oct 3, 2024 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
The eighth and latest slate of refined retro-futuristic synth-pop by Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno & Oaklander is named after and inspired by “the study of what not to do, a negative image of a positive, the other side, the other: ‘Via Negativa (in...
Oct 2, 2024 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Stäläg 13’s history can be traced all the way back to 1981 when original vocalist Ron Baird founded the band in Oxnard, California. Heavily influenced by East Coast Hardcore (Minor Threat, SSD, Bad Brains, DYS, among others), Stäläg 13 were arguably the first West...
Sep 24, 2024 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
As they prepare for the release of their highly-anticipated sophomore LP Cool World, Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile have revealed the album’s third single “Funny Man.” The song is about “…being a servant, indentured or...
