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The quintet recently released two new tracks on Crafted Sounds. Life kicks The Zells around, as it does all of us. The band's discography is full of shaggy rockers delivered from down on the mat; they're weary, but not quite ready to tap out. It makes sense that the band would name a song after … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Zells – Dog’s Night
The band's latest EP is Dividing Line. Dividing Line contains three tracks that swirl and pummel, brood and soar. "Clouds of Sils Maria" features chugging guitars that would sound right at home on an early-2000s Ozzfest stage, but the vocals, split between guitarist Jake Curran and bassist Rachel Hines, are pure, shoegazey melancholy; "If I … Continue reading Daily Yinz – eyewash – Clouds of Sils Maria
The experimental ambient artist's new album is tiki. When Derek White records complex retro-psych as Mystic Seers, he adopts an obsessively meticulous process. For the clattering, plunking, warbling, buzzing, hissing tiki, though, he didn't even employ guitar tuners or metronomes, and overlaid samples using a loose, collage-like technique. The result is a series of works … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Derek White – woost
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot over the past few weeks ### Histrionic - The Eastern Side of Anderson Memorial Bridge Raw emotion that courses through jagged peaks and valleys of guitar, threatening at times to overflow its bounds. More from Histrionic Follow on Instagram ### Dan Koshute … Continue reading Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 07.11.25
The improvisational collective's debut release is This is the Grip. THAT LIKE THIS (at least the iteration that recorded This is the Grip) comprises drummer and bandleader Corey Hackathorn, local multi-instrumentalists Brian Riordan, Matt Aelmore, and David Bernabo (who also populate experimental acts Watererer and How Things Are Made), Brooklyn flautist Samantha Kochis, and nomadic … Continue reading Daily Yinz – THAT LIKE THIS – Passenger Watching Silhouette
The power pop artist's eighth album is the appropriately titled C8ke. Coke Belda's decades-long search for the perfect power pop song has carried him across continents, from the clear waters of the Mediterranean to the slightly less clear waters of the Allegheny. C8ke finds Belda delivering, with his signature vintage sunniness, another batch of hook-heavy … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Coke Belda – Starstruck
The quartet welcomes summer with its third single of the year. "Bloomfield Beach" is a rework of a track that Century III vocalist/guitarist Carrie Battle originally recorded with DREAM PHONE in 2015. Where the older version floated in a sun-blurred haze, the newer iteration sets a brisker pace; there's no time to gaze dazedly at … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Century III – Bloomfield Beach
The band's latest single is a slice of space cadet funk. Throughout music's long history, people have been giving it to other people, as well as asking other people to give it to them. The giving usually occurs in a bedroom, but it can also take place in a low-lit club, a forest clearing, or … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Jack Swing – Give It To You
Get In The Weeds with the quintet's debut EP. In The Weeds' four tracks are lively, shaggy, and wry, full of knowing observations about life's drearinesses and small pleasures. Opener and lead single "RED LEMON" deals with the many bad things--defined by the "ties and the suits"--that actually feel quite good. We've all heard it … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Doll Trap – RED LEMON
The new self-titled release from Jake Yencik's Blood Menace project hybridizes blistering metal and glitchy electronica. Blood Menace finds deathcore-inspired metal clawing at itself as furious digital boils break out on its skin; they grow and consume until the music's very fabric is warped into a bubbling, melting, howling pile of goop. "Texas A&M," a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Blood Menace – Texas A&M
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