Starflyer 59 punctures the listener’s emotional defense shield with yearning vocals, slithering melodies, and face-in-hands tragedy that’s all too beautiful.
A mixture of Chicago indie-rock with the best of Shades Apart and other original pop-punk bands. They bend tempos, use odd melodies, and spit out juicy riffs.
Darkseed write like the second-stringers they are, stabbing and shooting at what is a miserable metal quagmire and coming up covered in delete bin swamp mud.
Continuing down the pathway of the underrated Odd Fellows Rest, Kirk, Sammy and crew have inflicted more Trouble into their fire-the-brimstone doomskullery.
Smogtown runs thru the numbers. They’ve got suburban teen dream nightmares and distill ’em thru the fewest three chords any human’s ever decided they need.
Bouncy, fuzzy garage rock with melodies like Sonic Youth and Imperial Teen. An ambitious garage pop band mixing lots of styles, but retaining their identity.