Been enjoying this debut EP from The Minor Toughs, aka Ryan Ervin, for the past few days. If you’re a Carter Administration fan you’ll find his dulcet tones familiar and the pop-rock approach comforting. I’m quite partial to “Star Star” but they’ve all got that perfect sing-along anthemic chorus appeal.
Take some time to watch this excellent new video from Denney and the Jets for “Bye Bye Queenie” off of their full-length release, Mexican Coke. It features Makenzie from Birdcloud being as ridiculous as you’d expect – drinking, smoking, pissing in public, passing out in cars and riding a water buffalo (sorta). My favorite part […]
If you couldn’t tell from the title, the work of Tipper Whore is meant to be a little ridiculous. It’s fast, loose, a bit crass and most definitely fun. The band is playing this Friday at The Stone Fox and I imagine the show will be all of the above.Â
Solid power-pop with a little dose of 70’s glam and classic rock tinge from Matt Bell’s newest undertaking. Get into it.
The official video for Pale Houses song “Wayward Sire” is a rather phenomenal piece of work. The dramatic lighting and smoke machine usage would have been enough to catch my eye but the narrative throughline with the couple is extra compelling. Director Seth Graves has really come into his own. Love it. Oh, and Ryan […]
The first official music video from The Lower Caves. Lookin good guys! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Rising from the ashes of Heypenny comes the latest from El El. Just as energetic but less frantic and, for me, more digestable. Love the cover art and am now officially curious to hear more.
The biggest complaint about the Nashville music scene when viewed from the outside looking in is that there is a surprising amount of diversity of musical offerings. For those inside the “scene” that’s a huge No Duh statement. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t take a step back and recognize that sometimes there really are astounding […]
PUJOL -Â Kludge (AV Club Full Album Preview) I do not know Daniel Pujol personally. However, from all the reviews and interviews I’ve read he’s always struck me as the intellectual type. A reader. A thinker. A rabbit owner. Not exactly personality traits that I associate with sometimes aggressive rock music. His first record, United States […]
Wild Cub – “Thunder Clatter” Live on CONAN Very happy to see the success Wild Cub has been having as of late but I’ll never get over this drumming + guitar technique.
As a former employee of Spongebath Records and current person-in-charge of their official website, I should mention that Self has a new track, “Stranger Than Strange” available on this Autism Awareness compilation Songs for Blake. I don’t mention this out of obligation but, rather, out of fandom. The track sits alongside offerings from Ladyhawke, Digital […]
I’m just stepping into it but this EP from Cumbres Carrascosa (potentially a transplant from the Canary Islands) but what I’m hearing so far is an oddly entrancing mixture of lo-fi, drum machine, drone and pop sensibilities. Certainly not a combination you encounter too often. And even rarer that it would work. Start with “Human […]
