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A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Bala Rise and the Uprising - You Made Us Too A tribute to Bala Rise's late father, previously recorded as a rousing rock track, now reimagined in the vein of the scorching thrash metal that Rise's father loved. More from … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.12.24
Digital tinkerer FLOOR BABA unveils a collection of B-sides from 2022's PREHISTORY. You're walking on a sunbaked sidewalk when suddenly you see a black line snaking across the concrete up ahead. Upon approach you realize that it's a column of ants marching in a pointilist rivulet. You always thought ants went about their business quietly. … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FLOOR BABA – ANT PATTERNS (INDI & MULTI)
Heavy snarl from the quartet's upcoming debut. It's no surprise that a band featuring members of Microwaves and Night Vapor would create music that grooves like a bluesy power tool hard at work on a block of concrete. The cantankerous "Pig's Eye," one of two tracks now available from Rated Eye (due out in May … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Rated Eye – Pig’s Eye
Skeletonized enlisted vocalist Brian DiSanto and bassist RJ Myato for the wild sounds of Go Forth Kaleidoscope Junkie. DiSanto's flavor of absurdist troubadourism (which can be heard a cappella at Wild Raft Records) fits well with Skeletonized's metallic free jazz discord. Instead of a bard wandering through a meadow playing around with alliteration and juggling … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Skeletonized Quintet – Directional Druid
A yearning new single out on Darling Recordings. Not every person would watch a video of a Winnebago salesman profanely botching ad copy and find themselves inspired to pen an achingly poetic musical still-life, but that's what separates Merce Lemon from the rest of us YouTube-scourers. A minute in to the video in question, salesman … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Merce Lemon – Will You Do Me a Kindness
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Low Life Drifters - Ghost Train A moonshine Molotov cocktail lobbed from a graffitied railway car as it chugs past a barn decorated with a cross. More from Low Life Drifters Follow on Instagram and Facebook Artwork by Vince Ray … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.05.24
ODZILLA treats his flows like precise needlework. On his new release, earth stops spinning (pt. 1), ODZILLA enfolds rhymes within rhymes and meanings within meanings, each bar another stitch in a greater lyrical tapestry. "clark kent" sees ODZILLA team up with fellow craftsman LEGEND for a five-and-a-half-minute clinic on timing, vocal control, and double entendre. … Continue reading Daily Yinz – ODZILLA – clark kent ft. legend
The peppily mopey first single from the trio's upcoming EP. There's nothing depression loves more than itself. It struts disheveled around its messy room, admiring its own puffy reflection in a mirror fingerprinted with Cheeto dust as it gleefully cancels plans and ignores text messages. "I Won't," petsitter's new single, revels at the bottom of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – petsitter – I Won’t
Today's exercise features the internal monologue of an entrepreneur influencer ADDICTED CREAM CONTRACT BLONDE I’m addicted to this shit. The wingtip boots, the suicide doors, the Adderall, the Vyvanse, the champagne, the high heels, the floors made out of speakers, the late-night Bitcoin ATMs, the sex, the yelling, the lecturing, the porterhouse, the philosophy, the … Continue reading Random Word Generator 04.02.24
A new release from a Pittsburgh polymath. The artist behind Criminal Manhunter has contributed drums, voice, beats, guitar, and bass to sounds ranging from the enraged punk detonations of LIVING WORLD and NASTY NANCY to the dusty hip-hop galaxy quests of Invader Lars and The Supernatural. On That's All Me, the songs are longer than … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Criminal Manhunter – Rivers of Time
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