Faraquet
FARAQUET Faraquet began as a side project featuring Smart Went Crazy members Devin Ocampo and Jeff Boswell along with Devin’s high school friend, Chad Molter, who had recently relocated to D.C. from Los Angeles. When SWC fell apart, Faraquet stepped up as a full-time band and started playing more shows, releasing a couple of singles […]
Zola Jesus
ZOLA JESUS Zola Jesus aka Nika is an American born singer, songwriter and producer. Since 2008, she has released two EPs and seven (?) full-length albums majoratively on NY multi-decade tastemaker label Sacred Bones. Nika began training as an opera singer at the age of 10. She dismantled that training to deliver her breakthrough lo-fi […]
Alvilda
ALVILDA MOPAR STARS BROWER THE SLADS
Kilynn Lunsford
KILYNN LUNSFORD God bless the barbarians and the ignorami for rescuing us from an even more repulsive technological society .. If we hadn’t had a “dark age,” if Mao’s fanatic followers hadn’t put the intellectual class out to pasture and dashed their skulls in the dirt, if there hadn’t been Magyars, Vikings, Christians, anti-science zealots […]
All Dogs
ALL DOGS All Dogs is a loud rock band that plays pop songs. With roots firmly planted in the DIY punk scene, All Dogs present their sincere and bittersweet songs in a unique, demanding and dynamic fashion. Since 2012, the Columbus Ohio based quartet has been touring the United States, and have released a 7” […]
Die Spitz
DIE SPITZ Die Spitz is a mayhem-inciting rock four-piece from Austin, TX. Founded in 2022, the quartet (Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe Andrews, Ellie Livingston, and Kate Halter) is known for their unruly stage presence and bombarding their crowds with a wall of sound which as Austin Monthly put it: “youthful moxie has never sounded so good.” […]
Portraits Of Past
PORTRAITS OF PAST Portraits Of Past prefers to be called a hardcore band, though many other adjectives and sub-genres have been leveled at them over the 30 years since these five childhood friends initially called it quits. After many years of pent-up demand from listeners old and new, the darkly melodic, explosive, and reluctantly “legendary” […]
CIVIC
CIVIC One of the most exhilarating bands to emerge in recent years, CIVIC have reimagined the reckless intensity of proto-punk for an era of endless uncertainty. On their 2021 debut album Future Forecast, the Melbourne-based five-piece offered up a barrage of songs matching their frenetic sound with both self-aware outpouring and incisive observation of the […]
Dutch Interior
DUTCH INTERIOR Los Angeles based “Freak Americana” project, Dutch Interior, brings collaborative and earnest songwriting under a veil of classic Americana melancholy for their latest album, Blinded by Fame, the six-piece’s first release since 2021’s demo album Kindergarten. Dutch Interior began as an aimless, decentralized recording project shared between longtime friends in the isolation of […]
Cheater Slicks
CHEATER SLICKS Cheater Slicks started in 1987 in Boston. The band was comprised of the same members still playing today- Tom Shannon, David Shannon and Dana Hatch. The band released 3 LPs and many singles in the Boston days, Including an LP produced by Jon Spencer in 1995. The Slicks relocated to Columbus, Ohio in […]
