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A distress signal sent up from a terrible workplace. Even though "Bada Bing!" is one of Secret Tunnel's debut singles, the band already sounds like it's at the end of its rope. The song opens with an image of true paycheck-to-paycheck desolation, served extra bummed-out over melancholy chords: "The friend of the friend of the … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Secret Tunnel – Bada Bing!
CHARIOT FADE's latest single is the ebullient "Make Yours Like Mine." McFadden and Whitehead's 1979 hit "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" is an irrepressibly sunny groove that struts in the face of doubt. On "Make Yours Like Mine," CHARIOT FADE use a prominent sample of that McFadden and Whitehead classic to create their own take … Continue reading Daily Yinz – CHARIOT FADE – Make Yours Like Mine
The latest single from a band whose music is both dreamy and crushing. Eyewash's 2023 debut EP featured gauzy swirls and metallic chugs alike, and "Bound" finds the quintet pushing its sound even further in both directions. The track's heavy parts hit like battering rams, as the guitars sink down into churning sludge and the … Continue reading Daily Yinz – eyewash – Bound
Ames Harding penned his latest song for The Mirage while living in Cuba and Chile. I just finished reading Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, a hilarious and surreal historical novel in which 1920s white America finds itself knocked back on its heels by a cultural "virus" spread through jazz music and dancing. The novel also concerns … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Ames Harding & The Mirage – The Governor’s Dead
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
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
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
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### SoulfulTone - Insecure A gentle, honest self-reminder--featuring a silk smooth instrumental--that there's no time limit on becoming the person you aspire to be. More from SoulfulTone Follow on Instagram Video by brutalist.001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkjtmoYBYCk ### Dream The Heavy - Flame A … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 03.29.24
Rave Ami's new album is the spirited and disheveled No Arc. On a record full of disorienting textures, "Alice Does A Kickflip In Wonderland" may be the most kaleidoscopic. A thrumming bass boosted way up in the mix is the most discernible instrument here. What surrounds it is an echoing clamor from which recognizable tidbits … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Rave Ami – Alice Does A Kickflip In Wonderland
Wyborn's new EP is a dazed rush of feeling. There's a character in the movie Coraline whose name is Wyborn, and at one point the movie's titular protagonist refers to this character as "why-were-you-born." "Why were you born?" feels like one of the animating questions behind "Wicker Eye," a song that explores the disorienting nature … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Wyborn – Wicker Eye
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