This track hits like a kick in the teeth, it’s punk and it’s gritty but I was hoping for a big chorus and it doesn’t quite ever get there. It’s a little odd this is a “single” as it sounds…
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Otra Vez: Special World
Otra Vez has a unique vocal delivery that fits really well with the indie pop folk style of the band. It’s somewhere between Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips in cadence and tone and Stephen Malkmus of Pavement with its…
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Scary Hours Interview: Updates and Insights into new single/video
Tell us about the new single “Western Thirst” – the message of the song, the recording process and direction the band is going musically.
The song was conceptualized as a response to the media coverage of the Cuban protests in…
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The Slashes: Valentine Slip
A little bit like if Bauhaus tried to write a love song in the vein of The Cure. It’s not bad, I quite enjoy the music but the vocals come off as a little somber and sung without conviction. The…
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Covert Stations : Love My Way
NJ singer Craig Cirinelli (Hidden Cabins, Damn This Desert Air), a seasoned vet of the independent music scene, returns with project Covert Stations, who bring an intense and noisy cover of the classic Psychedelic Furs track “Love My Way” and…
THE CAST BEFORE THE BREAK: THE RETURN AFTER 10 YEARS
The Cast Before the Break’s third album has eluded them for ten years. After several personal ups and downs, the acclaimed post-rock quintet regrouped from three different areas of the country to polish off a half-finished record rooted in 2012…
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A Wilhelm Scream: Figure Eights In My Head & Apocalypse Porn Singles
I’ve known of this band for 20 years or more and their pre-cursor Smackin Isaiah just from seeing them on flyers and opening or closing shows that I was at but I don’t think I ever caught them. Now listening…
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UNDERLINED PASSAGES: NEON INOCULATION
Its 2022 and Underlined Passages are back in full force with their new record, Neon Inoculation.
Neon Inoculation is a not-so-veiled homage to the past two years and all we have been through. But bottom-line up front: this is an…
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CITY OF FOUR: PREMIERE “ORBS”
A little while back we reported on Mint 400 Records the North Jersey label known for Indie Rock and Folk starting a new Jazz sub-label called Raining Music. One of their first signings and soon I’m sure to be a…
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THE DIONYSUS EFFECT: STARS
It’s kind of weird that the guitar tone after just a second takes me back to the year 2000 and something like At The Drive In’s high pitched single note leads. That good old Marshall sound. Then the vocal comes…
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