Blood makes noise

One of the newest signings to NJ label Mint 400 Records roster is Glasgow garage rock band Black Cat Revue. The band is a mix of psychedelic 60’s inspired garage rock tunes but with a bit of modern influence kind…

A Beast of Least Concern 

A record to get lost in while sipping red wine or bourbon.  

Beasts of Least Concern comes on during my living room DJ set between Sex Gang Children and Siousxe. Beasts serve up a reflective…

Lyndhurst NJ's own Ryan Struck (aka Scary Hours) returns with yet another blistering video "Normal's Not New" from his second full length "Margins" released last year by Pyrrhic Victory Recordings (US) & Engineer Records (UK/EU). Getting great press by The…

The first thing I think of when I heard Toledo’s lead off track “It’s Alive” from their EP Jockeys Of Love was Elliot Smith singing songs written by Peter Cetera of Chicago. For me that is an amazing thing and…

Tim Kile sent us over another track titled "My Medicine," and it's the 5th single from the Arcade Fire and Wild Light co-founder's new album, “These Are Things Being Gathered For The Fire”, which is…

The Stirrings 
X-Ray Eyes

Night Driving Music

Max was a man in his early twenties. He loved spending weeknights in dark goth clubs in the city in 1997. He loved the nothing of the weeknight…

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…

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…