Romero: An Exhilarating and Commanding Burst of Golden Power Pop
Call it chance, but the Naarm/Melbourne power pop band Romero are red-hot right now. Last April, the five-piece released their...
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Joe Massaro
- Jan 31
Absorbing The Chameleonic Sounds of Zak Olsen
Back in the fall of '21, the prolific Naarm/Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Zak Olsen returned with his third album under the Traffik...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 30
Private Lives: Deceivingly Facile Melodies and Glorious Riffing
Last fall, the newly-formed Montreal four-piece Private Lives unveiled their self-titled debut EP through the always reliable Feel It...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 27
Using Spare Parts: How The Mimes Were Birthed by the Pandemic
Coming out of Cincinnati's thriving underground scene, the newly-formed trio The Mimes meld trashy garage punk with fuzzy lo-fi pop...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 26
The Post-Punk Tenacity and Unshakable Presence of Sweeping Promises
Back in 2020, Sweeping Promises released Hunger for a Way Out, a debut effort loaded with zig-zagging guitars coated in a layer of early...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 25
Gut Health Swarm Forward with Momentum and Angular Extravagance on Debut EP
Following their debut EP Electric Party Chrome Girl, the Naarm/Melbourne five-piece Gut Health certified themselves as one of last year's...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 24
Peace De Résistance: Demented Glam Punk for the Twenties
With his solo recording project Peace De Résistance, Moses Brown has crawled out of the sewers from his roots in favor of "demented glam"...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 20
BRNDA Paints Musical Abstractions in Bold and Influential Strokes
Washington, D.C. art punks BRNDA are soon approaching a decade together as a band and on their third album, Do You Like Salt?, they're at...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 19
Jon Spencer & the HITmakers Defy Rock 'n' Roll Gravity
Following up 2018's Spencer Sings the Hits!, prolific gunk-punk dynamo Jon Spencer returned last year with the second HITmakers album,...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 18
Absorbing the Hellish World of Science Man
Out of the lab and into the streets, Science Man is the ever-evolving and enigmatic one-man band project of DIY demigod John Toohill,...
Julia Derwas
- Jan 17
The Exbats: Garage Doo-Wop from the Heart
Effortlessly traversing genres, The Exbats move between '60s girl groups, teenage tragedy songs, bubblegum garage pop and trashy rock 'n'...
Joe Massaro
- Jan 16
The Prize: Melbourne's New Power Pop Dynamos
Melbourne's hottest new addition The Prize play a well-worn power pop style that's loaded with an arsenal of hooks, tight harmonies, and...
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