Funeral Sounds has teamed up with Pacific Nature to release a split 12″ between Long Beach’s Struckout, a post-hardcore outfit, and Tomber Lever, an experimental folk group. Today, we’ve got “Writer’s Block” by Struckout for your listening pleasure. Their singer, Daniel...
Asbury Park octet Teenage Halloween proves their strength in numbers only underlines sharp power pop with flecks of basement folk and ska. (It’s worth mentioning this band carts around a trumpeter, saxophonist, and trombonist. The band’s trombonist, Connor Egan, even doubles as a flautist.)...
Spoken arts label Cadabra Records are back with another horrific release, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Picture in the House, a decidedly gruesome tale of cannibalism and family secrets. Returning to narrate is Cadabra favorite Andrew Lehman, a Lovecraft scholar with incredible voice acting skills. For the score,...
Every music scene has a city, and every city has its historians. Nick Diener very well could fit that description for Flint, Michigan. My Everest, the first LP released by The Swellers, found Diener crafting a splintering punk hometown anthem, “Vehicle City,” while its Fueled by Ramen follow-up,...
Provo four-piece Pop Warner keenly weaves between clever youth and resistant adulthood, tethered to the former by its nostalgic, mud-stained name. The forward-facing punk present on “November Air” has skinned knees and dirtied sneakers, too, but not from football or reckless abandon, but the search...
“Cannibal Tokyo Rainbow,” the newly unveiled track from Tinkerbelles’ upcoming full length album, Confetti At The Bottom, does much to mirror its physical presentation. You see, the vinyl edition of Confetti combines its “birthday cake splatter” variant with a surprising...
