Blood makes noise

I wondered how this record was made. I imagined these songs entirely predate the pandemic, created in a room with all the members piecing their parts together in a communal way. This band…

A Little Snippet from the Noise Party 

Fifty Heaven - Rochester’s Full Body 2 starts out with the noisy, modulated tones of the new shoegaze, and it is my favorite track on this three…

Asbury Park’s The Mercury Brothers have released a new standalone single entitled “The Rose” on December 7th. The band brandishes their ability to write tightly-knitted pop hooks through their own blues-infused rock format. This lean track begins sans any dramatic…

For those who want the short and skinny: 'Instant Fires' feels like a great opening track for the audiobook version of Neuromancer. Go ahead and try it. Case explaining he'll pay his debts off, just sounds so good with a…

We got this submission with this as the only description “I’m a father of two making art in my basement”. Is there anything else better than that? To all the bands that have spent tons of money on photos, videos…

Did I just listen to a Shoegaze version of Circa Survive with J Mascis on vox? 

No, but that’s an incredibly accurate description. The production and mix is superb! Oh, now female vox, too! I’m not sure why, but I’ve…

One of the most important things to me during this entire pandemic is that any band or artist keep doing what they do. That being, keep doing what they do best: ART. 

This is especially important for musicians but also…

Bugs. Most people don’t like them. They shoo them out of their house with a broom. They squash them with the bottom of their shoe. They slowly sneak up to them and snatch them with a napkin and…

Well, welcome back Rob Moss!  

Plug in that Melody Maker and turn it up man! Nice collection from this veteran of the "real" punk days gone by. It's cool when people come out of retirement with a butt-load of songs…

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…

Martin Denny’s Exotica went astray, found a girlfriend in an abandoned building and slept on a bed of nails while watching Danger: Diabolik. 

Joe Ferrara is the monster in the music. A clever devil…

When first listening to the soundcloud stream of Skytop Motel’s latest record “No Vacancy” I couldn’t help but notice the hashtag #psychedelic prior to #rock and #pop and was a little perplexed. I was well into the first track “Surfer…