Joe Cape (of Lagwagon) and Tony Sly (of No Use For A Name) pull through despite the Dashboard stigma, offering up five catalog numbers and a newbie each.
With a sound that resonates long after you’re done listening, Days Like These’s Lobster debut is a spectacle of talented musicianship and surprising maturity.
Calling itself fuzz-folk, Rural Electric uses megaphone-style distortion and minor-key harmonies to evoke a wistful place where we lean up against our memories.
Millencolin guitarist/vocalist Nikola Sarcevic has gone acoustic for his solo debut. Irresistible melodies stripped of fast tempos and flashy guitar licks.
Similar to Tristeza or an instrumental American Football, the Ohio quintet handle subtlety like a snakecharmer, using unseen forces to slowly guide inertia.