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…
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Vlimmer : Meter b/w Kartenwarten
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…
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CAT DOWLING: FREEDOM
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…
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RYAN POLLIE : THE SHORE HOUSE
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…
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THE DESCRIBERS: FEVER DREAM
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…
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ADI SUN: BELLA SUN LEVER (ZIZZA REMIX)
So I did my due diligence and as my suspicions were proven correct, didn’t really need a remix as the original is more interesting than the remix in my opinion. They took a mellow indie rock song and now it’s…
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Career Boy - “Size Up”
Career Boy brings da funk, wif “Size Up”, mo fos! Whoa, what happened?
Clocking in at under two minutes, it seems they wanted to get in and out on this one, quick!
I mean, it works but would've liked another…
THE TISBURY’S: SHATTERED ft. RIVERBY SINGLE
I’m not sure how I feel about this. The band compares themselves to Vampire Weekend and Phoebe Bridgers, two artists I love. Not sure I hear that at all, where as it’s not quite…
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GEAREDMAH: HIGHLY DERIVATIVE LP
I’m the resident indie rock person at Blood Makes Noise so I was a little surprised to get this grungy metal album. It starts off like something you might have heard from Alice In Chains in 1993. By track 2…
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BLOODMAKESNOISE PLAYLIST: MINT 400 RECORDS SPOTLIGHT (BLACK CAT REVUE, THE CAMPBELL APARTMENT, BLUE VERVAIN & A CAROUSEL MOON) 9/5/21
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…
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