Montoneros – Denver, Colorado, USA. It’s a fine line between dreamy musicality and pretentious wank, and that line is even more blurred for genres like Math-Rock, which can often be overly self indulgent. Luckily for Denver based band Montoneros, they are far more ear-wormy. Through including a brass section and...
Crime Spree – Chicago, Illinois, USA. Formed in 2014, Chicago based Crime Spree are a very simple band. They play Hardcore Punk in a loud, fast and abrasive manner that not only does the old days justice but lives and breathes the community that Punk and Hardcore have always strived...
Mr. Phylzzz – Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Cover photo credit – Zach Evans Above (right) photo credit – Travis Bradner Photography – Click Here. For Our previous work on the band – Click Here. Back in July of 2015 year, we took a look at the debut single from Cincinnati two-piece riffy-distortion...
Alive/Alone – Chicago, Illinois, USA. Photo credit – Stolen Photography – Click Here. August 2014 saw Chicago four-piece Alive/Alone hit the airwaves with their debut self-titled EP, showcasing six tracks that sit somewhere in the middle of a high-noted, passionate, screeching and discordant set of Post-Hardcore, from both the old-school...
Leggy – Ohio, Cincinnati, USA. Cover photo and above photo credit – Natalie Palmer Ah, Leggy. The dreamy Lo-Fi Garage Rockers from Cincinnati are back, and if their last EP, Nice Try was ‘like Vanilla Ice Cream (with some Kirsch), Apple Pie (with gold leaf Vanilla Kirsch Ice Cream), and Romeo and Juliet…...
Boston – Massachusetts – USA. This was a show that had me on the edge of my cramped polyester seat riding the T (Boston’s subway system) back to my side of town to link up with a handful of very talented musicians, for a show that had been the talk...
UGLYBoNES – Chicago, Illinois, USA. ‘Four best friends that wanna take a chainsaw to each other’s gonads’ For our work on the 2014 UGLYBoNES/Step Right Up split – Click Here. For the band’s appearance in our fantasy Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtrack – Click Here. The Chicago suburb’s UGLYBoNES formed...
Denver, Colorado, USA. Finds From The Soundscape: A Glance At Denver’s Rock and Punk Scene. Cover photo of ‘The Larimers’. You may remember our article on Denver Punk n’ Rollers E/M/P back in December. In said article I hinted at a yearning for a visit to this fine musical city...
CUT UP – San Francisco, California, USA. Remember the golden age of 90’s Punk? Gritty Pop-Punk that hadn’t lost it’s bite, fast and melodic Skate Punk that stayed stuck in your head for days? You do? Fantastic, enter CUT UP. Formed in San Francisco in 2012, and showcasing a very...
Vundabar – Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Photo credit by Caitlin McCann Boston three-piece, Vundabar, are (in their own words) a ‘Sludgy Jangle Pop‘ band – and what are you supposed to take from that? It could be that The Smiths fell into a tar pit? (Maybe). This young Bostonian trio’s second album Gawk is catchy...