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Jett Witchalls of Self Improvement: "I Have a Deep Fear of the White Picket Fence"
On their sophomore album Syndrome , Long Beach's Self Improvement confront the chaos of the present with their tightly wound, politically...

Joe Massaro
May 13, 2025


Artificial Go: "'Hopscotch Fever' Was Mostly Visiting Old Demos. 'Musical Chairs' Was a Turning Point of Writing New Songs Together in Present Time, Providing a More Collaborative Sound"
Cincinnati's Artificial Go continues to craft wiry, Dadaist-fueled post-punk with bright tuneful art pop across their new album Musical...

Joe Massaro
May 7, 2025


Private Lives: "We Just Got Better as a Band and Sort of Figured Out Who We Are"
More musically accomplished, more obsessively self-questioning, and with equally energetic yet simply deceiving performances, Salt of The...

Joe Massaro
Mar 13, 2025


Motorbike: The Ultimate Embodiment of Rock 'n' Roll
Building on the power of 2023's self-titled debut album, Cincinnati rockers Motorbike is back with another shot of primal noise and raw...

Joe Massaro
Feb 18, 2025


Class: "Honestly I Don't Think We Anticipated Having Another LP Out Almost a Year to the Day From Our Last Release"
Too unseriously pop-minded for the punks and too punky for the power poppers, Tucson rockers Class seem to be on their own island, but...

Joe Massaro
Sep 17, 2024


Rave On With Sugar Tradition!
Composed of guitarist-vocalist Antonio Keka, bassist Arlo Betley, and drummer Kevin Irwin, hellraising garage rockers Sugar Tradition have been tearing it up and leading the pack in Detroit's current rock 'n' roll scene. Following up a few limited releases, Sugar Tradition caught the attention of Feel It Records, who put out their latest EP More Sugar last fall. The EP is a roaring 14 minutes of primitive rock 'n' roll that carries the same spirit of MC5, Lyres, The Chester

Joe Massaro
Apr 27, 2024


Vacation: "Most Bands Break Up or Change Names A Few Years into the Game, But I Think With Us, a Listener Gets a Key to the Time Capsule That is Our Band"
Cincinnati rockers Vacation don't need much of an introduction. If you've ever seen them live, then you're familiar with their...

Joe Massaro
Apr 25, 2024


The Ar-Kaics: "It's a High to Bring Out The New Record After So Long"
Richmond, Virginia's favorite garage rockers The Ar-Kaics are back today with "Dawning," a twisted and turned garage-psych nugget that...

Joe Massaro
Mar 27, 2024


Premiere: The Follies Reach for Crisp Pop Sounds Without Betraying Their Gritty Sensibilities on "I Idled"
Comprised of members from various garage punk acts over the years (see: Vanity, Vexx, Ajax, Twisted Thing for more), New York City...

Joe Massaro
Feb 7, 2024


Grazia Pays Homage to Sleaze and Kitsch on Debut EP 'In Poor Taste'
Heather Dunlop and Lindsay Corstorphine, who make up the London duo Grazia, inject an eccentric rush of impeccably tight KBD-damaged...

Joe Massaro
Feb 1, 2024


Premiere: Detroit's Sugar Tradition Are as Wild-Eyed and Chaotic as Ever on "Rockin' Baby"
Comprised of guitarist-vocalist Antonio Keka, bassist Arlo Betley, and drummer Kevin Irwin, primal garage rockers Sugar Tradition have been tearing it up and leading the pack in Detroit's current rock 'n' roll scene that includes bluesy punk rockers The Stools, swampy noisemakers 208, and garage-psych wanders Shadow Show. Along with the release of their anticipated new EP More Sugar , the trio have greeted us with a new music video for the bone-shaking, Nuggets -worship numb

Joe Massaro
Oct 13, 2023


Leopardo Explores New Cosmic Territories on "I Can't Help Falling in Love with Nobody"
Hailing from Fribourg, Switzerland, Leopardo create their own well-seasoned blend of buzzing garage pop and absurdist post-punk, bridging...

Joe Massaro
Sep 6, 2023


Natalie Hoffmann of Optic Sink: "I Wanted To Have More Low-End in the Band and Wanted To Bring Another Non-Sequenced 'Human Element' To Contrast All of the Machines"
Expanding on the magnetic, minimalist post-punk frontier first chartered on their 2020 Goner debut and recent 7" on Spacecase, Memphis...

Joe Massaro
Aug 15, 2023


Disintegration: Synth-Soaked Post-Punk for the Future
Disintegration is a Cleveland supergroup of sorts that's made up of Haley Himiko (Pleasure Leftists), Noah Anthony (Profligate), and...

Joe Massaro
Aug 7, 2023


Motorbike's "Potential to Ride" is a Testament of Loud and Reckless Rock 'n' Roll
With already releases from Piss Flowers and Keith Harman's Good Looking Son, a lot has been happening over at Jerri Queen's Checkered...

Joe Massaro
Jun 8, 2023


The Pure Pop Magic of Good Looking Son
Following 2021's debut EP Fantasy Weekend, Keith Harman of the Cowboys returned last month with his Cincinnati-based project Good Looking...

Joe Massaro
Jun 2, 2023


Romero: Pure Pop for Now People
Call it chance, but the Melbourne group Romero are red-hot right now. Back in April, the five-piece released their long-awaited debut...

Joe Massaro
Feb 2, 2023


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 30, 2023


The Post-Punk Tenacity and Unshakable Presence of Sweeping Promises
In late 2019, the then Boston-based post-punk duo Sweeping Promises descended into a converted concrete laboratory with a single...

Joe Massaro
Jan 26, 2023


Heavy Mother: "I've Played With Lots of Great Players, But This Is the Tightest, Most Coherent Band I've Ever Managed To Get Together"
Forming in 2021, Heavy Mother is fronted by Eddie Flowers (The Gizmos), guitarist Mark McWhirter and bassist Zack "Chode" Worcel (The...

Joe Massaro
Nov 16, 2022
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