HIGH IN JULY! OUTER LIMITS SUMMER STROH DOWN RETURNS ONCE MORE!!
11:45pm - Tin Foil - “"Without being unduly influenced by the band name or album title, there's an admirably mean greasiness to this record, with Tin Foil making a country-fried post-punk ruckus that communicates burnout prole art threat while also being thankfully devoid of Anglophilia. I'm loath to call anything "original" these days, but this feels close. It's almost as if Tin Foil think that post-punk was supposed to be an accessible rock 'n' roll language that people could actually use after punk wiped the slate clean(ish) and not just a pastiche of bad-toothed gestures. They are, as they say, crazy for that one." - CREEM
11:00pm - Deadbeat Beat - “Deadbeat Beat have not released much music since 2020, so it is great to hear the Detroit band back with their third album, From Here To Ohio. From those earlier releases, the band has grown and widened the space from their previous sound, which had a touch more garage rock to it. Now we have a record that feels all in on the indie jangle sound, and it creates their best release to date. The core of Maria Nuccilli, Alex Glendening, and Zak Frieling still keeps the guitars crisp, with snappy drums and stacked harmonies that lock in and pull each song forward. Pete Steffy is now aboard on keys, and his glowy synth pads and organ open little trapdoors under songs that used to run on guitar alone.
What gets me is how much heavy feeling can hide inside these 10 bright songs. A worn-out Midwestern dread drifts through the album, scrolling past wildfires on your phone, feeling past your prime while basic survival looks shaky, but the band treats all of it like a party they refuse to leave early. I have listened to this album multiple times, and that darker side stays just out of focus while the ringing chords and interwoven voices do the real work of carrying you somewhere better.” -thefirenote
10:15pm - The Hand - 4/20
9:30pm - Chloe Drallos Group - “A cave can be a refuge. It can also be something to emerge from. Or, in the case of Chloe Drallos: re-emerge.
Following the release of the Detroit-based singer-songwriter’s new album, The Cave, she speaks of “scraping it all back, and starting over…”
Because she is. The Cave is Drallos’s debut full-length as a proper solo artist, recorded and released under her own name, and it all feels like a pretty cathartic rebirth. “Almost like recharacterizing myself,” Drallos says. Up until two years ago, she’d been known as Zilched, a purveyor of what she’d once called “doom pop,” typically presenting as a full band backed by rotating players in the live setting or, when necessary, also as a solo act. It’s always been Drallos’s voice, though; it’s just that she’s “more experienced now,” and asking herself tough questions — tougher questions than before.” -metrotimes
8:45pm - Quitters - “You know why The Stools have been one of the toughest, fiercest and most savage bands to come out of the Motor City since the start of this century? Because every single one of them is soaked to the bone in that legendary underground rock'n'roll DNA that Detroit has always been famous for. Everything they touch turns to gold… today we're bringing you the killer debut on Stahl’s Painters Tapes label from fellow The Stools member Krystian Quint. Quitters, Quint’s solo venture, quickly mutated into a mind-blowing three-piece, delivering a four-track, brain-melting EP that once again carries the torch for a city where playing punk rock is much more than a hobby... it's a responsibility. Because when you're from Detroit, whatever you do had better blow our brains out. And holy shit, these four tracks do exactly that.” -tremendogaraje