JIVEBOMB
JIVEBOMB is Kat, Ethan, Harper, David, and Nick. Rising out of Baltimore’s groundbreaking hardcore scene in 2021, JIVEBOMB’S ruthless blend of hardcore punk and intense live show quickly made them a band to watch. Dropping a demo that year, the band grabbed the attention of Flatspot Records and released their first proper EP, Primitive Desires, in 2022. The EP received praise from Stereogum, The Fader, and BrooklynVegan, and the band went on a whirlwind of touring alongside acts including Angel Du$t, Soul Glo, Fleshwater, Spy, and Candy. JIVEBOMB’S brazen and gut-wrenching style continues to grow, and takes on a more extreme form on the band’s upcoming debut album, ETHEREAL, out March 28th, 2025 on Flatspot Records. ETHEREAL is defined as “extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.” A pure contradiction to JIVEBOMB’S sound, yet a perfect match to the band’s lyrics that drive from a dissociative dreamlike state. Entering the studio in summer 2024 with Ben Greenberg (Uniform) at Circular Ruin in Brooklyn, NY, JIVEBOMB knew they wanted to keep their raw, blitzed out energy while diving into heavier territory. Spanning ten tracks, ETHEREAL clocks in at thirteen minutes of destructive chaos pulling from hardcore, grindcore, and the extremities of music. Opener “THE IMPACT” greets you with distorted samples before vocalist Kat snarls “Don’t get it twisted, get it right” setting the tone for what’s to come. The sonic ricochet of “ESTRELA” moves through heaven-like lyrics that allude back to the album’s title. Lead single “SURVIVAL AIN’T TAUGHT” is pure hardcore intensity pushed through thick, vibrating guitars. 2021 demo tracks “WISE CHOICE” and “Cidade Charme”, now “CHARM”, get transformed into more feverish versions translating how they’re performed in a live setting. “SERAPHIM (MARINA’S SONG)” bodes yearning for something intangible, while delivering with winding metal riffs. ETHEREAL ends with the damaging “DISFIGURED IDENTITY” sending off with a unique spin. As Kat shares, “The sound design at the end of this song is made up almost entirely of audio recordings I took ofrandom sounds while Jivebomb was in Europe, chopped and screwed style.” With the release of ETHEREAL, JIVEBOMB have delivered a unique and rapid debut that urges repeat listens while building anticipation for what the band will create next.
Post Sex Nachos
Hailing from the middle of the middle of the Midwest comes a band that bends genres and produces tunes that’ll make you want to roller-skate and two-step to your heaviest feelings: Post Sex Nachos. Charging into battle for the love of the music, these roller-coaster rockers are here to redefine the term “boy band” forever. This 5-piece with a fantastically unique Venn diagram of influences and musical backgrounds continues to constantly reimagine the scope of what they can do with their art. Comprised of Mitch Broddon (lead guitar, support Vox), Sammy Elfanbaum (rhythm guitar, lead Vox), Kevin Jerez (keyboards, support Vox), Chase Mueller (bass, support Vox), and Hunter Pendleton (drums), Post Sex Nachos doesn’t just record music for virtual consumption – they bring it to the fans who matter most. Performing to sold-out rooms from coast to coast, Post Sex Nachos delivers a raw, once-in a-generation live show, replete with pop-hook singalongs that sweep you up, solos to make you quake, and grooves worth diving head first into. Veritable road dogs, Post Sex Nachos recently announced their next venture, dubbed “The Minor League”. Fitting, eh?
Early James
“It’s a house with a lot of character,” Auerbach says. “I’ve always loved it. I always felt inspired when I was there. I knew it would be a fun place to do something. It’s over a hundred years old. It’s got the old plaster on the walls, plaster ceilings, old wallpaper. There are big oak floors and an oak stairwell. The first floor has twelve-and-a-half-foot ceilings. It’s pretty awesome. But it’s not a recording studio by any means.” “We had to drag all the gear in there. We set the little mixing console upstairs — this crazy, wild old ’50s Universal Audio tube console that I’d just gotten and fixed up, which was built by FAME Studios’ Rick Hall for his studio in Memphis — in a spare bedroom, and we ran the wires down the stairs. We set up James and everyone in separate little rooms downstairs. James’ little Princeton amp was right behind him, there were no baffles or anything, and so when he was Early James recorded his first two Easy Eye Sound albums, Singing For My Supper (2020) and Strange Time To Be Alive(2022), at the studio inside the vaunted label’s Nashville headquarters. But for James’ third release, Medium Raw, producer and Easy Eye Sound label head Dan Auerbach envisioned something quite different for the Alabama-bred singer-songwriter-guitarist’s rawboned, sometimes scarifying music. “Day of the first session, I had my GPS routed to Easy Eye,” James recalls. “We ran into some traffic, and I texted [engineer M.] Allen [Parker] — ‘Hey man, sorry, we’re gonna be about 15 minutes late.’ And he said, ‘It’s OK, we’re still getting set up at the house.’ And I was like, ‘What house?’ ‘We’re recording at this house, it’s really cool.’ It was news to me! It felt unusual in the moment, which I think makes you play the songs differently. But I’m really happy with and proud of the results.” “I wanted to try to find that power of when I first saw him, when it was just him and his guitar,” Auerbach explains. “After working with him a couple of times in the studio, I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to do it in the same kind of way. The comforts and luxuries of the studio, where you’re able to hear everything and make adjustments and changes, wasn’t right for this project.” The house in question, known as “Honky Chateau,” was an old Nashville property owned by photographer and artist Buddy Jackson. The writing continues to display the hallmarks of James’ distinctive, one-of-a-kind style: whip-smart wordplay, upended clichés, humor both light and dark, and a deep intelligence that frequently reflects a literary sensibility. His musical sensibility has leaned toward the hard stuff from an early age: “I remember getting obsessed with the blues and getting obsessed with old country. My first favorite musician was Hank Williams. There was something about how dark that music was. I could listen to Hank Williams on repeat and never get tired of it. Hank Williams, Jr., lives in my hometown of Troy, Alabama, and he and my dad were hunting buddies. They still run into each other at Julia’s Restaurant in Troy. I listened to a lot of Howlin’ Wolf, and his guitarist Hubert Sumlin — I thought that was Howlin’ Wolf playing the guitar.” Like the rambling bluesmen of old, whose repertoires would mutate from night to night, James says audiences should expect him to work some new wrinkles into his songs on stage: “I’m trying to play dress-up with this record on the road. You never know what it’s going to be wearing. It depends on what thrift store we get to.”
Neva Dinova
Florry
A far cry from the cool, calculated distance and reserved posture that is all-too-familiar to the indie-rock sphere, Florry, the Philly-bred septet and songwriting vehicle of bandleader Francie Medosch, are marking their territory as a band resolving to do something very different: they are having a really good time out there. Cutting her teeth in the Philadelphia DIY scene starting in 2019 as a student at Temple University, the early days of Florry found Medosch at the end of her teenage years releasing a slew of singles and EP’s in a familiar idiom of lo-fi bedroom recordings tinged with country melancholy. A lot has changed since then. Most importantly, perhaps, the project snowballed into a barn-burning seven piece rock band in the proceeding years; and without sacrificing any of the emotional immediacy that’s come to define Medosch’s brashly earnest, bleeding-heart lyrical style, you’re unlikely to find her lingering as much on the melancholy these days. Or, as Medosch plainly puts it in regards to Sounds Like… , the band’s forthcoming LP: “The Jackass theme song was actually a really big influence on the new album” The release of their 2023 formal full-length debut The Holey Bible (via Dear Life) found Medosch now flanked by six bandmates and trafficking in a wider, more rock-oriented approach with the bravado of someone with a new lease on life. With Jon Cox (Sadurn, Son of Barb) on pedal steel, John Murray on electric guitar, Colin Dennen on bass, Will Henrikson on fiddle, Katya Malison (Doll Spirit Vessel) on Vox, and Joey Sullivan (Bark Culturr) on drums, Florry 2.0 had arrived. The retooled seven-piece embraced a lengthy run of tours dialing in their new kinetic sound and freewheeling chemistry including runs with Fust, MJ Lenderman, Greg Freeman, and Real Estate. Greeted to critical acclaim upon its release, with positive notices from outlets including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, and Brooklyn Vegan, the album quickly introduced Florry to an expanded audience and pointed a way forward for Medosch and the band at a time when the future wasn’t so clear. “I had a job lined up selling insurance, I guess I figured that was that, you know?” As it turns out, that was not that. A few days went by, and then the phone started ringing. From managers, from booking agents, from indie-rock elder statesman Kurt Vile, who took the band on the road in support of his 2023 Back to Moon Beach LP. On the winkingly titled Sounds Like… , the band’s second full-length release via Dear Life, Florry is picking up right where they left off in 2023. Again upping the ante with a bigger, brighter, more abrasive sound that resembles something closer to Rolling Thunder Revue-era Bob Dylan than their humble DIY roots. Across ten tracks, the band wear their influences on their sleeve while carving out a space that is distinctly their own, blending raw honky-tonk grit and rich instrumental textures with the disarming sincerity and intimacy of the group’s lo-fi beginnings. It’s a record about searching—searching for home, for love, for meaning, and for a sound that captures it all. As Medosch croons on the red-hot opening track, First it was a movie, then it was a book Last night i watched a movie the movie made me sad ‘cause i saw myself in everyone how’d they make a movie like that?
Ryan Davis + The Roadhouse Band
After more than 15 years of releasing music on labels like Feeding Tube, Load Records, Astral Editions, Bruit Direct Disques, Petty Bunco, All Gone and others (including, if not primarily, his very own Sophomore Lounge imprint) as/alongside such outfits as State Champion, Tropical Trash, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Roadhouse, et al., Dancing on the Edge – a seven-song, 53-minute basement folk opus, self-released at the end of 2023 and recently reissued by Tough Love in the UK/EU – is the first collection of material produced under Kentuckiana-based visual artist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ryan Davis’ birth name. The tunes on the album range from bare-boned, achingly crooned avant-folk tales to jovial, collaborative excursions into long-form experimental country-tinged rock modes. Continuing in the tradition of the TVZs, Terry Allens, Souled Americans and DC Bermans before him, this 2XLP reimagines the exceedingly dated archetypes of modern day indie troubadour music and the inherent trappings therein. Davis’ solo debut is a dense collection of Americana-Noir that navigates a familiar yet alternate reality, one of enchanted mundanity and uniquely Mid-Southern introspection. Simultaneously antisocial and outwardly inviting, free of cynicism yet slightly stepped in paranoia, Dancing on the Edge is as delicately choreographed and emotionally connective as it is, at times, absurd. The Roadhouse band, as it’s been assembled to meet increasing demands for live performances this summer and fall, features members of Kentucky-based experimental unit Equipment Pointed Ankh, Nashville songwriting voltron Styrofoam Winos and Athens’ bummer country/power-poppers Little Gold in a certain-to-dazzle assembly of both labelmates and friends.
Petty Beige: End of Summer Bash!
Playa of The Year Bash! Celebrating Surreal the MC’s Bday!
Surreal The MC is a LEGEND in Midwest music… and he is also one of the supportive humans when it comes to other peoples music/adventures. For one night… we are going to celebrate the man himself! Come hang out and enjoy live music! great stories! amazing people! cake! and more!
Ungoliant
Ungoliant – Black Metal from Omaha, NE – releasing their first full length album Sept 12, 2025! https://www.instagram.com/ungoliantamerica/ Tehom – sludge / death metal / black metal from Omaha, NE https://tehomne.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2023 YŪREI – DEATH//BLACK//SLUDGE from Omaha, NE https://www.instagram.com/yureideath/ Cheap Porno Flick – Cheesy, Sleazy, Omaha Grindcore https://cheappornoflick.bandcamp.com/
Plague of Carcosa
Plague of Carcosa – Cthulhu doom / noise from the forgotten corners of Chicago. Downtuned, heavy, atmospheric. https://plagueofcarcosa.bandcamp.com/ Weaving Shadows – 4 piece Existential Dread Inducing Sludge/Doom from Nebraska WeavingShadows.bandcamp.com Phantom Crypt – Sludge/Doom Metal From Omaha, NE https://www.instagram.com/phantom__crypt/ Phuzz – Stoner rock from Lincoln nebraska https://www.instagram.com/phuzz_420/
