New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Linquency is a electronic music project of the musician formerly known as Glocque. He found some acclaimed back in 2015 for the release of Gloves Brain Transplant, and is now back with we a new EP as Linquency called “Desurfacing”.
The sounds of the three track EP is a mixture of acid house, industrial, and vintage electronica.
Bryan Coffey has been workin’ the scene for a while now playing with bands Wine Lips and Jean Daddy among others. Lately he has been working on his own projects with his band “The Feel Good Band”. His most recent release is a cover of Elvis Costello’s Pump It Up. Coffey and his band simplify the track and slow it down just enough for the lyrics to be much clearer than the original. I prefer this pace and the chorus has a Green Jelly-like intensity to it. Very cool. Bryan Coffey & The Feel Good Band play Bovine Sex Club on January 10th along with Serb Superb and Dark Trip. – Kris Gies
Maybe you know Sarah Potenza‘s name from Season 8 of NBC’s The Voice, where she wowed Blake Shelton with her bold vocals. Maybe you’ve seen her around the Nashville scene, showing off her brassy songwriting skills on stage. Whatever the case may be, you should take note: She’s coming back with a brand-new album called Road to Rome, which drops on March 8th, this year’s International Women’s Day. The album — produced at the studio of Jordan Brooke Hamlin (known for her work with the Indigo Girls) — takes inspiration from and pays homage to powerful female figures in music legend, such as Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, and Bette Midler. It’s an album for all artists, but particularly for those who identify as women, and it comes on a day for celebrating their achievements as loud and as raucously as possible.
If you want to hear tracks from Road to Rome before the album’s release, Potenza will perform the new record cover-to-cover — along with some old tracks — at The 5 Spot on January 15th. And if you want to refamiliarize yourself with her music now, check out her music video for her 2016 single "Monster" below. – Will Sisskind
A consistent sense of uncomfortability permeates Macseal’s recent extended play, Map It Out, one that is offset only by the Long Island pop-punk five-piece’s confident and driven musicianship. Each track on Map chalks in just around three minutes, each song an inner monologue covering the tedious nature of fitting in, human intimacy, or a sense of immobility – against this fraught and anxious lyricism, Macseal interweaves triumphant major-key guitar riffs and concise sprung clock drumming with gusto. In doing so, the band’s music reads as a confrontation of these uncomfortable facets of human life, a sharp rebuke that seeks to address these pangs head on through an energetic and self-assured performance.
Macseal will lend their energy in support of Prince Daddy & The Hyena at Baby’s All Right on January 19th, alongside Strange Ranger and bad heaven. Stream Map It Out below. –Connor Beckett McInerney (@b_ck_tt)
Great Deceivers have released the first single, “Checked Out Forever”, from their forthcoming LP, In Spirit. This is the band’s follow-up to 2017’s Some, and it will be officially released on January 19th.
This is the throwback Indie Rock sounds of Seth Engel (Drums), Russell Harrison (Vocals/Guitar), Ben Rudolph (Bass/Vocals), and Max Green (Guitar/Vocals).
You can help Great Deceivers celebrate the release on January 19th at Empty Bottle with Floatie, Spritis Having Fun, and Grandkids.
Noiseferatu is the project of bedroom pop producer A.J. Hubbard. He released his debut album, You Must Get Discouraged!, on New Year’s Eve.
The album is filled with sadness, struggle, lo-fi beauty, and several surprising samples. On “What’s So Heavy?” Hubbard samples and alters “Quiet Storm” by Smokey Robinson. It adds an electronic element to what is primarily an acoustic album.
Krust Toons: "Theme Night" by Tedd Hazard – please feel free to drop him a line at teddandthehazards@gmail.com if you dig or have any funny ideas. You can also check out more of his illustrations and animation shorts HERE.
Flying Potion released their self-titled debut album on January 1st. This is the Psych Rock band that has been together since 2015 and is fronted by the pedal steel playing Jam Cornelius. He is joined by Ross Tasch (bass), Joel Cornelius (drums), and Drew Suarez (guitar).
The album blends elements of Psych Rock with touch of Jam Band and the always present twang the pedal steel brings to the mix.
Grisette just released a yearning, bluesy debut single, called “Ditches.” It was recorded and mixed by Jake Detwiler at Sleepless Sound Studios. With twilight on the horizon and the gentle, strumming pattern guiding you along the way, there’s a pleasant ache in the atmosphere. Then, that fervor ignites in a ripping, instrumental release, before returning to form and winding down.
As far as genre descriptors are concerned, ‘country’ is one that has the most divisive effect on city-dwelling purveyors of alternative music, one that causes most folks to do an about face and run for the safety of less homespun tunes. Brooklyn band / art collective Irrevery, however, do not care for your classist associations with the genre and channel a distinctly rural energy into their self described ‘country punk noise.’ Lead track “Just Like Me” from their most recent full-length Irrevery Volume I is strengthened most by lead singer Paige Johnson-Brown’s lyrics and vocal delivery, rife with imagery of dogs on ropes, flowers in bouquets, and fists full of mud, drawled against a backdrop of discordant punk noise and heavy slide guitars. While such a pairing of seemingly unrelated genres may appear as odd bedfellows, Irrevery shows that the two have more in common than you think, uniting them in an emotionally raw, honest tour de force that encapsulates the most visceral elements of both. Watch the video for "Just Like Me" below and see for yourself – Connor Beckett McInerney (@b_ck_tt)
Yacht Punk search for a meaningful connection on "New Wave Denier." On their exultant new single, the indie rock quartet reflect on what it means to be out of touch with your peers, when your soul yearns for musical ideas that don’t fall into what’s currently in the zeitgeist. But instead of accepting that it’s just a sign of the times, an irrevocable change, they channel that lament and turn it into a fiery protest that converts the muscular post-punk of War-era U2 with the optimistic energy of today’s trendy, mainstream rock radio.
"New Wave Denier" is out now on all streaming services. Listen to it below. Juan Rodríguez
