Chicago area label Jetsam-Flotsam is excited to announce the newest full-length album by New Jersey's By Surprise. Titled Cosmic Latte, it's the band's most recent full-length album Mountain Smashers was released on Topshelf Records in 2011; since then, the band has released a 2013 EP titled Criteria (also on Topshelf) and a 2016 split with Aspiga (on Asian Man Records).
The Reaganomics have been kicking around the Red Scare roster for about 10 years and they only show their faces when they feel there’s a need to mock Republicans and/or ladder-climbing scenester punks. And let’s be honest: there’s currently a need. These dudes are from Joliet, Illinois (hold your applause), and they don’t ever tour because they have weird jobs like… music teacher and stuff. Their rare live shows are half laughs and half a display of exorbitant musicianship.
Caspian, the symphonic Massachusetts-based band who have been dubbed “the most regal of the instrumental new rock school” (Pitchfork) and post-rock cosmonauts (Spin), return with their first album in over four years, releasing On Circles on Jan. 24 via Triple Crown Records.
“I’m lost, but I’m not afraid.” As Ratboys’ Julia Steiner began to write the skeletons of the songs that would make up their new album Printer’s Devil, those six words, originally sung by David Byrne, meant everything. They became a mantra for the transformative nature of Printer’s Devil, an album that finds the Chicago band achieving entirely new heights as a four-piece and peaks of vulnerability in what is undoubtedly their strongest and most cohesive endeavor yet.
Remember those 90ies bands that had guitars that were loud as hell but also kinda space-y like Hum and early Smashing Pumpkins?
On their debut full-length, Central Florida’s Suck Brick Kid tear through ten songs like they have something to get off their chest. Want to guess what?
- by Tom Dumarey
Rational Anthem are a pop-punk band made up of sister/brother duo Noelle and Pete Stolp and longtime friend Christopher Hembrough.
- by Tom Dumarey
Atlanta underground rock provocateurs Black Lips have announced that their new LP, Sing In A World That's Falling Apart, is set for release January 24th on Fire Records/VICE. Boasting an unapologetic southern-fried twang, the twelve track collection marks the quintet's most pronounced dalliance with country music yet, with a clang and harmony that is unmistakably the inimitable sound and feel of the Black Lips. While the songcraft and playing is more sophisticated, Black Lips were determined to return to the raw sound that marked their early efforts.
