Joe Gloor, Dan Berg and Dan Haligas were just a group of friends from the suburbs of Illinois with big city dreams of rock n' roll glory. Their lone release, "White Washed Afternoons" b/w "Watcher's Brawl", was released under the name StumpWater in 1975 and fell on mostly deaf ears, leaving the band with little option for a breakout. Undeterred, the boys continued to stay active for the love of music, gigging around their home state for decades (eventually carrying the torch without Dan Haligas,... (read more)

\A little less than two years on from 2017's Plum, Californian scrap polymorphs Wand are prepared to announce their newest, and fifth long playing record, Laughing Matter. By now, Wand is the shifting but unmistakable collaboration between Sofia Arreguin (keys, vocals), Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals), Robert Cody (guitar), Lee Landey (bass) and Evan Burrows (drums).  
 
Laughing Matter is marked by the confidence and fervor of a band that has lived, feuded, thrived and grown together through years of dedicated jamming, touring... (read more)

No Age exemplify efficiency as a means to creativity, as their two-man approach to huge sounding and thrilling punk music proudly displays. This dynamic appears effortless on Snares Like A Haircut, which is often a sign that in fact some serious thought and planning went into whatever the hell they're doing to make it sound so good. Since it's release, No Age have methodically toured all over the world, country by country, and they're still not done - 2019 ushers in the Snares Like... (read more)