NYC’s Millsted – a band we discovered in our Year End Best of NYC Poll open submissions – are something else, dabbling in the NYHC scene but really embracing shoegaze and noise rock through and through. Their latest record, ‘Harlem,’ is a self-proclaimed "attempt to aggressively break the ice of censored social commentary." Listen to the record’s highlight track ‘Coyote’ below, which seems to take a lesson or two from Mars Volta, Fugazi and Rage Against the Machine, with an even more aggressive vocal approach. The vocals and percussion throughout the album pack an in-your-face punch that not even last week’s freezing 9 degree NYC weather could match. Things will get heated at The Gutter in Williamsburg on February 21. – Michael Haskoor (@Tweetskoor)
