Five years ago Rob McAndrews, better known by his stage monicker Airhead, planted himself next to a speaker that spewed Dub Step and Future Bass concoctions into the Leeds, England basement session in which he was immersed. The murmuring reverb [...]
In 2011 John Coen returned to his Brighton, England home from tour…not as a musical road warrior in search of fame and fortune, but from the Royal Marine Corp where the singer/songwriter helped defend the free world from terrorist [...]
We’re all well versed about how the devil once traversed the highways and byways for a fiddle fight in Georgia. However, the tale that’s not nearly as well recounted is how Lucifer took up residence in Spartansburg, SC and transformed [...]
Back in February SIMGE utilized this ongoing Breaking Rad feature to reveal the breakup of one of our favorites Indie-Rock outfits Green Paper. And we did so by introducing you to a new project named Reinforcement featuring former frontman Tomm Hart’s [...]
B. Hamilton first registered on the SIMGE scale when the Oakland outfit’s debut LP Everything I Own Is Broken landed at No. 26 on our Top Releases Of 2012 List. The outfit’s prowess for producing swells of speaker shattering power left us [...]
This penman first witnessed the musical lures of James Wallace and his backing band of collaborators known as The Naked Light at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The Folk-Rock collective wasn’t showcased on any type of main stage or [...]
Pizza is cool. The Numerators like pizza. Therefore, the Numerators are cool. The Numerators are a three-piece band from Brooklyn via Lubbock, Texas. Their ultra-cool, surf-inspired psychedelica is a barrage of energy in a sometimes slow city. Drummer, Burgers, [...]
I never backpacked across Europe when I was done with college, but I did wander across Austin alone and drunk during SXSW. I’m not sure if I found myself; all I know is I found what I was looking for: [...]
New York City’s Big Ups have dropped the epitome of what underground Punk music is all about in “Fresh Meat”. This track is the sonic equivalent of scraped knees clotted with dirt and grime from Friday night’s basement rager; a piece [...]
Reinforcement is an artistic vision formulated by Tomm Hart, who has reincarnated this solo project after the recently announced hiatus of SIMGE favorite Green Paper. Hart’s lo-fi missives recorded in the sanctuary of his humble Cranford, NJ abode were inserted [...]
