Blood Makes Noise

For most of us, 2020 was a wash. The coronavirus pandemic took a temperate winter and extended its feeling and aesthetic for the rest of the year. Even the summertime provoked in many of us a…

If you’ve heard the band The Racer and their excellent brand of indie pop then you have heard the piano playing of Eric Sosler a staple member of the band. In this new project Eric does it all from the…

All The Same, the new album from Max and The Martians, a project of New Orleans-based musician and songwriter Max Bien-Kahn, is preparing to land on March 12, 2021. The album will available everywhere digitally, as well as…

Favorite Friend Records are back with their second release following last year’s CR & The Nones. Hanford Reach's debut full-length After Image, scheduled for release in May, is the second release upcoming for the label run by Tom Gallo…

So full disclosure I run a record label and I’ve come to an agreement with Blood Makes Noise to let me promote releases every week. The idea is every week I will present a playlist with some new Mint 400…

When I first heard the opening of “Placeholder for the Night” I immediately thought of the “Witch House” genre that seemed to spawn at least partially from the Bay Area over 10 years…

Homemade Ski Mask is a punk rock duo from Lancaster, PA , USA, consisting of members Mike Tennant and Danny NoNo. Recorded at the Kaleidoscope in Lancaster PA, "redballbluechicago" is a 5 song collection of…

Happy New Year! 

I’m back with my first review of the year, a French post rock instrumental project named La Drache. Now I’ll be first to admit that instrumental bands can be hit or miss both…

While I admit I’m biased towards the French label Stellar Frequencies, as they are run by Cedric Tessonneau, a friend of mine whose music I put out back in 2018 (Alpha du Centaure & Elvyn Rhud…

Air Hunger from Poland sent us their debut album F-I-X-E-R and it’s claim to fame is the whole album was recorded on an iPhone. I don’t know if I’d brag about that because it kind of…

Uniforms new album starts off with a very gothy synth electro vibe. The 80’s synth accentuated with a blazing distorted guitar is a nice opening to the 10 track album “Fantasia Moral”. Track 2 “Brazil” starts with the jangly indie…

Every Damn Day boasts a thirty year career and on their newest track “Audio” the band takes a track written over 30 years ago and adds vocals and additional instrumentation. The band says this of the track “The song pays…