They’re a mixed-gender guitar/drums duo hemorrhaging enough fuzz to resemble a 1000-pound bumblebee sucking up mostly Sonics, Seeds, and Cramps reissues.

A band who are always happy to add a dance-beat to everything they do, If You Feel It is a particularly frenetic affair; as the band explain, “we wanted to explore noise and tempos and vocals that spike and plunge and work their way up to a fury again. And because it’s us, it had to be danceable”. It’s the sort of track that instantly transports back to us the dance-punk scene of the early 2000’s; scratchy Rapture-like guitar riffs, bouncing bass lines LCD System would be proud of and yelp along vocals the match of Le Tigre or early Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

‘Manhunt’ sees them re-teaming with labelmates Amy Bezunartea and Jennifer O’Connor on a couple tracks, while enlisting Deathbomb Arc rap experimentalist SB the Moor and pioneer of the other Def J, Redman. Its lead single, “Me Time,” is being shared today with a video treatment, announcing the pair’s arrival in all their verse- (and clothes-) swapping goodness.

“‘Otherside,’ at its root, was inspired by the book Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, but it is also a commentary on the current political climate. The book deals a lot with the concept of fate, most notably in its famous repeating line, ‘So it goes.’”

New York City–based trio A Deer A Horse sit musically somewhere between the Melvins, Helms Alee, Red Fang and Sleater-Kinney, combining guitar fireworks with striking melodic vocals in a way that’s spirited and muscular. Their latest single, “Smokejumper,” is a perfect example of the band’s approach — strong songwriting and hooky melodies never get in the way of the riff, which reigns supreme throughout.

Blending the frantic rush of crude rock ‘n’ roll with a lethal dose of 60s garage-band panache and an obvious love of ghoulish b-movies and dd-porn flixxx, Austin crypt keepers Teenage Cavegirl are set to self-release their debut album on June 1.

Coming straight from rock ‘n’ roll megacity, Austin, Texas, Teenage Cavegirl, comprised of L.A. (vocals, drums) and Andy Ray (guitar), deliver an uncomplicated, straightforward garage rock sound full of grabbing immediacy and trash pop aesthetics.

when done correctly, generating publicity is easy. But boy, there are a lot of ways to turd up the works, and there are lots of mysteries surrounding publicity: what the hell is a publicist, and what can I, a creator of things, do with one? Hopefully the following tips will help.

Portia and Ellen gave me hope that I may be able to be public and proud one day, and that other LGBTQ+ couples were now being public and somewhat accepted.

It’s 4/20, and Brooklyn-based trans rapper Uncle Meg’s got the perfect video you can ride out your high with. His single “Verde” is a bop with a danceable beat, and the video is a seriously trippy journey. From rollerblading martians to a slimy green feast, its all just about random-ass fun.