rock

Beast Make Bomb: It Snowed Last Night

Combining fuzzed out pop melodies with the distorted punk attitude of late 1970s New York, Brooklyn’s Beast Make Bomb craft songs informed by twenty-something college life in urban grit. Powerful yet tastefully delicate vocals by Houston native Ceci Gomez croon…

Kalle Mattson: Water Falls

Kalle Mattson returns May 1st with a new five song EP – “Lives In Between”. Recorded at the end of 2011, and mastered by Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky), “Lives In Between” is the first release with a new lineup…

Sleepy Vikings: Horse Song

Back from another year at SXSW, The five sleazy Tampanians (a real word according to UrbanDictionary.com) of Sleepy Vikings have braved an infernal Florida sun to write the weird songs about stalkers, dead kings, summer, presidents and teenage loitering that…

The Pauses: Go North

Today is the day that everyone starts going apeshit over archery, it seems now everybody needs a bear recurve bow, as the movie Hunger Games releases here in the US. Orlando band The Pauses have a leg up on the…

Grand & Noble: Hellcats

Jon Elling, the man at the heart of Grand & Noble, grew up in Los Angeles and Jacksonville, Fla. His bi-coastal upbringing is partly responsible for his wide-open songwriting style. “I got the full L.A. experience, including muggings and drive-bys,”…