Cities Under Cities is a show on WXNA hosted by Kelsey Delaney that hosts a different band each week and has them perform in studio. The result is both a compelling chunk of radio but, also, a large repository of recordings of said sets. Many of those sets are available over on the shows Bandcamp page for free streaming.

The latest performance posted is the Feb 24th set from Bleary (a band that we also recently featured on the WOTT Music podcast) and it’s a refreshing take from the new band. Cities Under Cities describes them as “shoegazey dream pop” and that’s an apt description for the sounds captured here.

Back in October, Kim Logan released Pseudoscience: Chapter 3, the third installment of singles exploring a variety of different genres. The lead track, “Ladyboy”, now has an official video featuring Logan and the titular Ladyboy (presumably) performing the track in a number of different locations.

Ahead of his April 20th Third Man debut, Mr. Jukebox, Joshua Hedley has released another song for your enjoyment. “I Never (Shed a Tear)” has classic country all over it with more than a hint of R&B influence with the backing vocals. Whatever the full-length contains, it’s going to be refreshing.

We love a good cover anytime but this Sun Seeker cover of “I’ll Be Here in the Morning” from Townes Van Zandt is especially timely today, March 7th, 2018, as it is Mr. VZ’s day of birth. Sure, he died back in 1997 but there’s never a bad time to hear his work as interpreted by a modern day band.

BONUS cover: And The Relatives covered “Be Here To Love Me” with Caitlin Rose back in 2009. Still worth a listen.

The four song EP covers some interesting ground. They’re offering a nearly six-minute version of the traditional folk song “Hares on the Mountain”, a Fleetwood Mac cover of “Before the Beginning” and two reworks of previous released songs off of Dying Surfer Meets His Maker.

On the whole, the tracks never rise to the level of ferocious doom that many other All Them Witches tracks explore but it’s a refreshing bit of diversity from the band; more laid back but still perfectly ominous.

As mentioned on Volume 102 of the WOTT Music podcast, Dan Burns (of Action! and R. Stevie Moore) has been pumping out creations over on his Bandcamp Subscriptions. There’s something new every month and much of it is available only to his subscribers.

As part enticement for new subscribers and part pure creative enjoyment, he’s posted a video for his track “Feel” – part of said subscription. It’s a compilation of vintage videogame footage, mathematic visualizations and absurd animations. There’s definitely a very particular aesthetic to it but it works.

The debut EP from surfdeadpiss, gogo, finds that pleasant balance between high-quality bedroom recording and total confidence in presentation that completely works. No song exceeds the 3-minute mark but it’s that brevity that works in its favor.

The guitars are frenzied, the vocals are ever-so-slightly strained and distorted in the most earnest way and there’s a driving drumbeat under it all. Overall, it may be less than 10 minutes of your life but it provides a bombastic improvement from whatever you were doing previously.

Let’s get the requisite background information out of the way: Halfnoise is the solo project of Zac Farro, the drummer for Franklin’s finest musical export, Paramore. Whatever baggage you may have about Paramore (good* or bad), you should leave them at the door when diving into the work of Halfnoise.

So, with that out of the way, I’m happy to see that Halfnoise has “Flowerss“, the first new track since 2017’s Half Face EP and our earliest peek into a forthcoming, as yet unnamed, EP.

The new track has a delightfully Springtime vibe with a driving beat, plenty of affected guitars and a lyrical refrain pondering “Why does it matter to you?”. I, for one, am looking forward to the full release.

they make a helluva music video