The Armadillo Paradox are a country/bluegrass influenced duo: Sol Chase brings the bluegrass and storyteller/former hip-hop artist Jared Huskey brings….the stories, but new single ‘Can’t Hold a Job‘ is hip-hop free. READ MORE…
Loud Women features Parker Woodland’s “The World’s On Fire (and We Still Fall in Love)”
Need some relentlessly positive, life-affirming indierock? Hell yeah do we. Out now from Austin, Texas’ Parker Woodland: ‘The World’s On Fire (and We Still Fall in Love)’, the title track of their debut EP. READ MORE…
American Songwriter gives Spencer Burton’s LP Coyote 4.5 out of 5 stars
With his fifth album, Spencer Burton hikes through stifling solitude, winding through majestic mountain peaks down to bubbling creek beds to both cleanse and blossom anew. He seeks to find himself and ultimately diverts through treacherous terrain for the answers to life’s most gnawing regrets and blunders. READ MORE…
Music OMH gives Stretch Panic’s new album, Glitter & Gore, four out of five stars
The neon wigged trio who make up Texan ghoul pop band Stretch Panic appear to have drawn a sparkly pentagram around a bunch of punk funk seven inch vinyl with sherbet and popping candy, summoning some sassy girl group succubi who (if there were a god) would be named Ronnie Spectre, to help them to create 13 refreshing paeans to queer love and imaginary monsters. READ MORE…
Vents Magazine debuts new single + video from Guitarmy of One, “Perry Mason Exoneration,” complete with a Q&A…
Punk roots thrasher Scott Helland (Deep Wound, Outpatients), is gearing up to release his new spy-themed, surf/noir LP, The Spy Detective Collective (due out March 26). Helland’s prolific songwriting has yielded him over 30 records since the ‘80s, ever since that fateful flyer fell into the hands of lo-fi heroes, J Mascis and Lou Barlow. No stranger to DIY venues and seedy dive-bars, Helland once had a gun pulled on him and his brother Vis, who went to settle up with the owner at the venerable punk rock club Electric Banana in Pittsburgh, ca. 1984. At the time, he was in Outpatients, opening up for Battalion of Saints. The hard-luck dues paid off later for Helland, who has since opened for many great rock bands, including Hüsker Dü, Black Flag w/ Henry Rollins, Cro-Mags, COC, 7 Seconds and more.
Audiofemme shares ghoul-pop trio Stretch Panic’s new album Glitter & Gore, out Friday
Austin-based indie rock band Stretch Panic fills an unusual niche: their songs are based around witches, vampires, demons, and other Halloween creatures. Their debut LP, Glitter & Gore, delves deep into this quirky theme, not only for the fun and humor of it but also as a means to make incisive observations about people and society. READ MORE…