Blood Makes Noise

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…

Envy. 

I’ve never been envious of anything and as a former professional athlete, the only time I have ever really felt what I consider to be envy was from a competitive standpoint if someone won a championship. Something that I…

From a music aficionado perspective, my tastes are all over the place. From every version of rock to some deep country-western cuts, I pride myself on the ability to listen to a song for what it is and decide if…

It’s roughly 530 in the morning and I have at least a 45 minute to 1-hour drive ahead of me. 

It is still pitch black outside and I live in an area that is only populated at its highest level…

This band lists a whole bunch of indie rock icons as influences just like everyone does but I feel like this most closely resembles The Posies with a slight accent. It has a nice feel to it, great pop sensibility…

Self-described as a “lush indie duo” the song "Locked Out” is off their forthcoming full-length “Juniors”. I think I know what this is going for and it’s somewhere between Phoebe Bridgers, Nat Vazer, Claud, Geowulf and a thousand other female…

Change your band name. Seriously, I already assumed this song was going to be dumb based on it and the track is good. It has a very 90’s thing going on like a mix of Nada Surf, Goo Goo Dolls…

Classic 80s goth and post punk vibes are everywhere in “Colour & Sound”, the new single/video by Paris France’s Inner City Basement. Dark and dreary throughout, the band’s debut track and video will give you the chills as you listen…

El Valerie is probably unlike anything you’ve heard. Imagine lofi indie pop created in a bedroom with a few guitars and a casio keyboard. Now picture the songwriter sings in Spanish and English and is inspired by all sorts’ of…

The Death Set bust out the green screen!  

What better way to bang out a video, than to just splice together the best bits of shlock cinema. 

‘Set For Death’ is a pretty catchy song, to boot. The Death Set…

Voice of Doom's "Night Tide" starts out with as close to a Danzig vibe as you can get without doing a cover. The main riff has a Dirty Black Summer feel and the vocals are so exact that if I…

Berlin-based artist Vlimmer just released a new two track double single EP prior to his debut album, “Nebenkörper” (English: "Secondary body"), set to release on September 24, 2021. The first track, "Meter" is a dance…

Something comes off a little bit Karen O-ish about this track but it’s not quite that indie. Instead it’s like if you take a healthy dose of Americana and injected it into modern female fronted indie rock stuff like Phoebe…

LA based singer/songwriter Ryan Pollie returns with his first song in two years. An excellent melancholy pop masterpiece, “The Shore House” weaves around with precise instrumentation in between incredibly catchy verses, stops and starts and a hooky chorus. The track…

When this track first gets a few bars in I hear early 80’s radio pop in the vein of Loverboy or one of those mall tour chicks like Tiffany or Debbie Gibson and even those examples have more edge to…