Photo Credit: James Dean Defying any sort of easy classification, the multifaceted musical duo of Patrick Tape Fleming and Christopher Ford, better known as Gloom Balloon, craft deep soundscapes that play with lo-fi sonics and swelling strings. Their second LP, [...]
Photo Credit: Rick Perez A lot has happened for Brooklyn-based rockers Dead Stars since I first met them back at the 4Knots Festival in 2014. The band comprised of Jeff Moore (guitars, vocals), Jaye Moore (drums) and John Watterberg (bass) [...]
A few weeks back, The Big Drops, well, dropped their excellent and eclectic debut album, Time, Color via self-release. We’ve already featured singles “By The Water” and “Baskets of Love” which, on their own, showcases the group’s expansive talents, but [...]
Time, well, flies. Almost three years to the day a lonely man boy conceived of a project wherein he would enlist a number of talented and generous-with-their-time-and-talents musicians to write and record a brand spankin’ new song in 24 hours [...]
Photo Credit: Mark La Rosa After enough time spent in any discipline, especially the arts, you’d be hard pressed to blame someone for being a little bit jaded. That cannot be said of the Jersey City-based musician and producer Michael [...]
Photo Credit: Jake Gravbrot Almost two years to the day, I fell for Chicago rockers The Kickback and their single, “White Lodge.” Now, the band is back with a new LP, Weddings & Funerals, due out this Friday, July 14th. [...]
It’s rare that debut singles leap out of the speakers in quite the way Chadbourne Oliver’s does, but that becomes less surprising when you consider his connection with our friends at Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen. Swaggering, psych-soulful and chock full [...]
Not sure how NYC-based rockers Bloody Your Hands have eluded me until this point, but their garage rock with a slice of power pop sound has me hooked. Remember those Summers smoking your first cigarettes tooling around town with the [...]
Last week, Brooklyn-based rockers Fruit & Flowers released their anticipated debut EP, Drug Tax. To celebrate, the band headlined a packed out Baby’s All Right with Surf Rock Is Dead and Sic Tic. I was fortunate enough to be joined [...]
Hailing from Rutherford, NJ, rockers The 65‘s combines the talents of scene vets Joe Pugsley (guitar, vox, Ryan Struck (bass, vox) and John Steele (drums). The power trio crafts amber-hued, hard nosed, barroom ready anthems reminiscent of Garden State greats [...]
