Sound Waves #22
• Weekly Song Recommendations • “Because Sometimes I Forget” by Dirty Dancing drifts like a hazy memory, as if soundtracking a dream you half-remember. Its raw intimacy and subdued urgency linger long after the final note fades, quietly demanding a second listen. Socials: Instagram . Facebook “Everything is Temporary” by The Valery Trails captures a […]
Brood22 – just past the exit with the truck stop
Hitting play on Brood22‘s new EP, “just past the exit with the truck stop”, is like flicking on your high beams on a pitch-black desert highway. It cuts through the void between Tucson’s heat haze and Portland’s perpetual drizzle. This ain’t music you hear; it’s a landscape you inhabit. A desolate, beautiful, fucked-up stretch of sonic highway where […]
Blunt Blade – Forgiveness
Blunt Blade’s second album, “Forgiveness,” is one album that’d make you forget neat genre boxes – this album spits on them. Who is Blunt Blade? Blunt Blade is the band. The guy’s been musically obsessed since he was a kid – piano by 7, guitar by 15, bass and drums by 16 – and every single layer […]
Sound Waves #21
• Weekly Song Recommendations • “All For Numb” surges with raw emotion and snarling edge, blending jagged riffs with a defiant, almost sneering vocal energy that never lets up. Jeremy Serwer delivers a punch of grit and attitude, crafting a sound that feels both lived-in and recklessly alive. Socials: Instagram “Χε Χε (Te-hee)” zips through […]
Super Tuesday – Through The Static
Move over, algorithms and drum machines. Clear the decks for something real. Alex Kisch, operating under the banner Super Tuesday, has just dropped his fourth full-length, Through the Static, and it’s a breath of fresh, guitar-scented air. Landing on June 20th, this album feels timeless, a potent reminder of why we need seasoned songwriters with dirt under […]
Art Schop – The Fifth Hammer
Art Schop just dropped “The Fifth Hammer,” and it’s a jackhammer wrapped in a rock ‘n’ roll skin. Martin G. Walker’s fifth studio opus is a 44-minute thesis on cosmic dissonance, delivered with the swag of a pub philosopher and the sonic heft of a band tearing down walls. And yeah, he’s the band. Mostly. Walker ain’t your average basement […]
Dream Bodies – Circle of Light
Steven Fleet is not playing dress-up in the graveyard of post-punk past – with Dream Bodies, he’s exhuming the corpse of darkwave and breathing lightning into its lungs. His debut EP, ‘Circle of Light’, is a five-track séance, a meticulously crafted descent into a sonic underworld where distortion bleeds into dreamscapes and every synth swell feels like a shiver up a […]
Sound Waves #20
• Weekly Song Recommendations • “DYBIRL” shimmers with raw vulnerability wrapped in sunlit harmonies and a soft pop-folk pulse that lingers long after the last chord. SOPE weaves a sound that feels both intimate and expansive, like a handwritten letter carried on the wind. Socials: Spotify “Stuck!” pulses with chaotic charm, fusing jagged beats and […]
Sound Wave #19
• Weekly Song Recommendations • Bathed in dreamy synths and Delia Meshlir’s haunting vocals, “Sun” feels like a half-remembered kiss from a summer long gone. It’s a slow-burning pulse of post-punk longing—both warm and wistfully out of reach. Socials: Instagram “Lost Control” erupts with raw, restless energy, channeling chaos into a blistering rush. It’s the […]
Tom Minor – The Manic Phase
Tom Minor – London’s answer to a whiskey-soaked, existential panic attack set to music – just lobbed a four-track Molotov cocktail into the void. “The Manic Phase” is a snarling, soul-drenched odyssey through neon-lit back alleys and crumbling psyches. Produced by Teaboy Palmer (rightly crowned “the Phil Spector of Finchley Road, NW3”), this is chaos with a heartbeat: power-pop hooks mugged by […]
Blueprint Tokyo – Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope
Oklahoma City’s Blueprint Tokyo is launching a goddamn noise doctrine with “Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope,” their hotly anticipated 16-track debut full-length album – yeah, a double-album guts move in this ADHD age – out now via Spectra Music. From that first surge of rhythm, you get it: this is a band that’s done simmering. They’ve locked […]
Mortal Prophets – French Summer
Mortal Prophets – the ever-morphing creation of NYC’s John Beckmann – make us wowed time without number. “French Summer” is an 18-track, velvet- smooth, slightly unhinged joyride down the French Riviera. Top down, rules shattered on the Autoroute. Buckle up, buttercup. This is the real deal. Beckmann, the mad scientist behind this operation, has never played by the […]