Dummy: "We Make Things You Are Meant To Listen to From Front to Back"
Comprised of Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O'Dell, and Joe Trainor, Los Angeles' most adventurous four-piece Dummy breaks down their...
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Joseph Massaro
Jul 16
John Andrews & The Yawns: "There've Been Some Artistic Decisions That I've Made That I Wish I Had Another Person To Bounce Ideas off Of. But You Live and You Learn and You Grow as an Artist"
Draped with the unshakable pop purism of '60s troubadours — like Harry Nilsson, Emitt Rhodes, Colin Blunstone, and The Shangri-Las — John...
Joseph Massaro
Jul 11
Love Banana: "I Think Having Our Differences Is a Great Thing and Keeps Us From Accidentally Sounding Too Derivative, Which Is Easy When You're Young and Excited and Get Obsessed Over Music"
Love Banana offers up short sharp shots of super-shambolic, super-perky garage-pop on their latest single "Get In." The new tune,...
Joseph Massaro
Jul 11
The Strangely Addictive and Abrasive Sounds of Ismatic Guru
Ismatic Guru, the most demented duo amid the Rust Belt ruins of Buffalo, New York, inject their absurdist trajectory of synth-punk...
Joseph Massaro
Jul 10
Shop Talk: "A Band Is Very Much Like a Polyamorous Marriage and I Am Very Glad To Be in a Happy One"
Ahead of Shop Talk's summer tour, we spoke to the garage rock trio about their recent single, plans to record a full-length album, and...
Ryan Leach
Jul 10
In The Red Records' Larry Hardy: "I Had The Stooges' 'Raw Power' by Late 1975, Way Before Punk Rock" (Part One)
Larry Hardy is the founder and owner of In the Red Records (ITR). For the past 33 years, ITR has been one of the leading independent...
Sydney Salk
Jul 9
Answering Machines: "I Started This Band To Have Fun and Do Whatever I Wanted"
Chicago's Answering Machines are DIY heroes, from the tasty crunch of their recordings to their hand-dubbed tapes; it's the sort of...
Joseph Massaro
Jul 5
Pack Rat: "One Thing That's the Same as the Original Vision of the Band Is That I Still Have No Idea What I'm Doing"
After starting as a Covid solo project by Chain Whip's Patrick McEachnie in 2020, Pack Rat quickly grew into an eight-legged outfit with...
Sydney Salk
Jul 2
Pop Hysteria: "I Just Wish We Had More Hours in a Day So That We Could Play Together All the Time"
No one can get you writhing and wriggling to the beat like Pop Hysteria, Long Beach's latest dance-punk outfit and Lizzy Mercier Descloux...
Sydney Salk
Jul 1
Porta D'Oro: "I Always Had a Problem Sticking with Genres, Even When Playing With Other People, I Always Ended Up Pushing the Boundaries of Whatever Kind of Music We Were Making for Better or Worse!"
Porta D'Oro, the hypnotic, boundary-pushing solo project of Giacomo Stefanini (Kobra, ONDAKEIKI) finds its first LP release in Così...
Sydney Salk
Jun 26
Love Fiend: "Our Work in the Past Has Been a Little More Random and Disjointed, so We Wanted To Do the Opposite on This Record"
If you're not already rocking with Love Fiend you might miss the party before it's too late! They've already put out three tight singles...
Joseph Massaro
Jun 20
Self Improvement: Danceable but a Caustic Force
Formed during the pandemic as a long-distance project, but now based in Long Beach, minimal post-punks Self Improvement have artlessly...
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