San Francisco band City Tribe has been together since 2010, but lead vocalists Duncan Nielsen and Jacob Jones first played music together in 2007, testing out sounds with a post-hardcore band. When this project fizzled out and the two went their separate ways, serendipitous circumstances found the pair living a few blocks away from one another years later, and the two tried again: this time, though, scaling back to just vocals and acoustic guitar. LISTEN HERE…
Atlanta garage-psych band Zoners began with Matt McCalvin, formerly of Gringo Star, and it didn’t take long for the project to round up a following. Opening for the likes of Diarrhea Planet, The Coathangers and Speedy Ortiz, it’s high time Zoners gave their growing fan base something for their record players, too. LISTEN HERE…
Party Dolls, the collaboration between Tedo Stone and The District Attorneys, has a Valentine’s Day present for you. The band’s debut LP Love Wars Baby is set for release on Friday, and the unconventional release date celebrates the collaborations beginnings. It wasn’t long ago that the District Attorneys were invited to play a Valentine’s Day Show with Athens band Ponderosa, but with half their members unavailable (Oh, to be unavailable on Feb. 14, right?), they improvised and wound up on stage with Tedo Stone and friends. District Attorneys frontman Drew Beskin provided the songs, which included more personal compositions he’d penned. READ MORE
Atlanta band The Wild came into being thanks to frontman Witt Wisebram, whose solo work as a folk musician evolved into the five-piece that performs as The Wild today. Their latest LP, Dreams Are Maps, is an impressive indicator of how the band has continued to change things up musically while staying true to the sound that first brought them together.
Dreams Are Maps was recorded by Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) at her Florida studio, and the band considers it to be a memorial for friend Anthony Poynter, who toured with the band often and died of cancer last year. WATCH HERE
Atlanta’s Rrest, which consists of musicians Wes Ables and Andrew Teems, is nearing the release of their self-titled debut record. Darker topics and emotional lyrics give depth to an otherwise pop-sounding record, and frontman Ables says this duality in the songs happened naturally.
“We were just free with this record—we acted on spontaneous emotion,” said Ables in a recent statement. “It’s more of a feeling than anything intelligible or thought-out. We were trying to capture the urgency and newness of these songs, recording them as fast as we could, no matter how shitty the equipment.”