With a spring season that is slotted to be full of exciting new music and show announcements, it’s very easy to miss some great projects. Use this article as a guide to follow you on your journey! Let me help you traverse the music spectrum and discover the narratives behind these five promising acts that…
An interview with Max and a look at “YHITOPIFAH” As a community we easily throw around “DIY” as a way to describe anything not produced with labels. Really encompassing the do-it-yourself attitude when focusing on music and trying to craft the perfect work is really, really hard. Robo Pumpkin(Max Adams) can attest to that, with…
This year we started a small campaign as a way to see how far we could take a community. We couldn’t have guessed what came of the diy discord server and this crazy music community. These are a collection of final thoughts and rankings of releases from 2023, submitted by discord admins and mods. Thank…
“FinalBossFight! showcases instrumental precision and sing-along punk hymns with their S/T” The trio based in Lansing, Michigan released their tightest work to date with their sophomore LP “FBF!’. This DIY project has had my attention for the better part of a year and I can honestly say they contribute to the exciting Michigan scene in…
It seems that we get mind-blowing releases from Michigan DIY acts almost every single week and Clipboards LP1 is par for the musical course. Written over the course of the past year, Clipboards showed off a multitude of musical talent and artistic vision. “Endless Days” paints Clipboards as something like a track team, with each…
Aren’t We Amphibians use “Emergency Exit” to show Southern California, and the country, who’s up next.
“Look At The Bones is a Seattle-based emo revival-revival project with an even mix of hunger and experience to offer the exploding PNW music scene.” On September 21, LATB handed in their “first gift to this world” , releasing the project’s first EP “Home Sweet Home”. This EP is their first release as a conglomerate,…
Taking things at face value, or the realest way, often means agreeing with the way everything has to work. Washing your face in your hands or crying out to an empty sky about how awful things are doesn’t make anything different. You are in control of how things work out, mostly, and fighting yourself every…