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Fink of Angel Face: "People Sometimes Say We Sound Poppier Than on the First Album, but Given the Backstory, We Don't Feel Like We've Really Changed"
Tokyo punk veteran Fink has always held fast to the raw, blown-out blitz that made his earlier groups (Teengenerate, Firestarter,...

Joe Massaro
Oct 6, 2025


Brower: "I'm Always Coming up With Hairbrained Schemes To Release Things Unconventionally"
After cooking up Flour —his long-awaited second LP that slow-baked over several years in makeshift Brooklyn practice spaces—Nat Brower is...

Joe Massaro
Jul 18, 2025


Loose Lips: "I Feel We Are Always on the Same Wavelength When It Comes to How It Should Sound and the Image of the Band"
Across their debut album Last Laugh (DIG! Records), Melbourne's Loose Lips waste no time delivering ten tracks of late-night,...

Joe Massaro
Jul 11, 2025


Alien Nosejob: "It's a Little Bit of Everything and a Whole Lot of Nothing, Something for Everybody, Nothing for Most"
Over the last decade, Jake Robertson has quietly built one of the most varied and compelling catalogs in underground music. Best known...

Joe Massaro
May 14, 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


The Now Sound of Today: Dumbells
For the uninitiated, Dumbells is an oddity. Their debut album Up Late With isn't even out yet, but in a sorta charming way, it already...

Joe Massaro
Feb 13, 2025


Shrapnel: "I Think There Was About 23 Songs Once All Was Said and Done"
In a time of derivative music trends, Shrapnel is a breath of fresh air. With a great ear for neatly crafted, mildly offbeat, intricate...

Joe Massaro
Jan 31, 2025


Track by Track: Brower on the Stompin' Bubblegum Nuggets That Cook up 'Flour'
Following up several singles and a totally authentic live album to help sustain the anticipation over the years, New York City rocker Nat...

Joe Massaro
Nov 4, 2024


The Prize: "It Sometimes Feels Like We Haven't Done That Much but Then When You Step Back and Have a Look at the Opportunities We've Had and the Things We've Got to Experience, I Feel Really Lucky!"
Since forming in 2021, The Prize has established itself as one of Melbourne's premiere rock 'n' roll bands through their arsenal of...

Joe Massaro
Oct 16, 2024


Jed Dmochowski of The V.I.P.'s: "None of Us Were Trained Musicians, but We Knew How a Good Song Should Be Shaped and Sound Like"
The V.I.P .'s were formed by Jed Dmochowski (guitar, vocals), Guy Morley (guitar), Andrew Price (bass), and Paul Shurey (drums) while...

Joe Massaro
Oct 8, 2024


New Math: "I Think We Just Were Like Lots of Kids. You Just Tried to Mimic Your Favorite Band at the Time, or Your Favorite Sort of Moment in Music"
By the time the 1980s struck, New Math was way out there. After cementing an underground rock scene at the now-extinct club Scorgie's in...

Joe Massaro
Aug 22, 2024


Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"
Melbourne's latest rock 'n' roll supergroup Loose Lips deliver earworm hooks, tough male-female vocals, and anthemic guitar riffs that...

Joe Massaro
Aug 15, 2024


Josephine Network: "I Have a Vivid Memory of My Dad Playing Me a 45 of 'Great Balls of Fire' by Jerry Lee Lewis and It Totally Freaked Me Out. I Have Been a Rock N Roll Victim Ever Since"
New York's power pop chanteuse Josephine Network just shared "Fat Doll" a glammy, campy, and irresistibly catchy pop number that's also a...

Joe Massaro
Aug 13, 2024


The Unpredictable and Unmistakable Sounds of Chris Burns & His Going Concerns
Montreal journeyman Chris Burns played his first gig when he was 15 years old, back in 1982. Today, aged 57, he is more active than ever....

Joe Massaro
Aug 8, 2024


Billy Tibbals: "I Always Wanted to Be a Part of a Real Rock 'n' Roll Scene. I Used to Daydream About it and Plot How to Make it Happen"
On his sophomore EP, Nightlife Stories, the London born, Los Angeles-based rocker Billy Tibbals offers another shot of teen glam power...

Joe Massaro
Feb 26, 2024


Keep It Fast: The Chats Talk Emerging Out of the Sunshine Coast and Recent North American Onslaught
During their North American tour last fall, The Chats played at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. Following their set, I caught up...

Joe Massaro
Jan 2, 2024


Dion Lunadon Breaks the Chain on 'Systems Edge'
With a new album out today on In The Red and a European tour beginning this week, the ever-busy, primitive garage punk stalwart Dion...

Joe Massaro
Nov 14, 2023


Glyders: Electrical Sounds of Shadowland Roadhouses
Ahead of their show tonight at Abilene Bar & Lounge in Rochester, New York alongside local psych-rock supergroup Leus Zeus, we caught up...

Joe Massaro
Aug 18, 2023


All Hail Tha Retail Simps
Fusing rollicking rock 'n' roll with KBD-worship garage punk that's loaded with ramshackle party stabbers and rupturing guitar freakouts,...

Joe Massaro
Jun 23, 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
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