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Convert
Milwaukee, WI. “CONVERT is a five-piece union, consisting of veteran members of Milwaukee’s long-respected punk and electronic scenes.”
Discomfort Creatures
Punk Rock band from Denver, CO featuring members of The Gamits, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Sound Collapse and lots of other bands.
downtalker
downtalker is a Boston-based post-punk disco project rooted in recovery, chronicled by struggle, and nurtured by love. A result of 20 years of collaboration and friendship between Massachusetts natives Darin Thompson (lead vocals, synth, bass, guitar) and Justin Mantell (synth, guitar, bass, backing vocals), 2021 debut album Post Junkie Selfish Millennial Single Father Field Notes landed in Brooklyn Vegan’s Year in Review series. In September 2023, with an overall sound now augmented by Matt Freake (drums, percussion, backing vocals), downtalker released two kinetic new dance-minded singles – “All My Friends Are Dead” and “Watch Your Heart Break” – via the resurrected Iodine Recordings, with their debut show arriving a week later, opening for Fiddlehead’s highly-anticipated record release party at Royale. More new music is set to come, opening up the creative world of downtalker and the difficult, yet hopeful, stories of addiction and recovery contained within.
downtalker – “All My Friends Are Dead”
All My Friends Are Dead - downtalker
Release Date: September 15, 2023 Record Label: Iodine Recordings Release Type: SingleBandcamp Link: Listen on Bandcamp
Dry Cleaning
Dry Cleaning are an English post-punk band who formed in South London in 2017. The band is composed of vocalist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, bassist Lewis Maynard and drummer Nick Buxton. They are noted for their use of spoken word primarily in lieu of sung vocals, as well as their unconventional lyrics.
DS Album Review: downtalker – “All My Friends Are Dead”
Between technicolor synth and screeching guitar, downtalker paints a picture of trauma and addiction as if running through an anxious dream. The soon to release single, “All My Friends Are Dead”, is a new release from Boston-based band downtalker, following their LP released August of this year, Post Junkie Selfish Millennial Single Father Field Notes. […]
Between technicolor synth and screeching guitar, downtalker paints a picture of trauma and addiction as if running through an anxious dream. The soon to release single, “All My Friends Are Dead”, is a new release from Boston-based band downtalker, following their LP released August of this year, Post Junkie Selfish Millennial Single Father Field Notes.
In the first and titular song off the single, “All My Friends Are Dead”, Darin Thompson barks out stories of childhood friends and visitation with his dad in a deep voice soaked in reverb. The quick strummed, funky guitar, and lazer beam synths juxtapose against the morbid lyrics. After the bridge, preceded by an emotional buildup with arpeggiated synth, all instruments cut out while Darin quickly whispers “All my friends are dead.” Quirky but honest and raw, “All My Friends” does a great job of sitting you with the feeling of drinking and dancing through a house fire.
Next up is “Watch Your Heart Break”, turning to a decidedly grittier sound, with those poppy hyper synths mostly 86ed, replaced by classic post-punk style phasers in the bridge. Keeping with the honest, almost stream of conscious lyrics, Darin espouses the beauty of love and self worth, with the warning “Just don’t fuck it up” following on repeat like an alarm. All of this crooned over overdriven guitar and rolling toms a la Viagra Boys.
A jumbled beautiful mess of funny, tragic, hopeful lyrics, backed up by dancing synths and chugging guitar, “All My Friends Are Dead” is a message to those in recovery, 10 years sober, or maybe even thinking about changing that other people have done it, and it’s not all D.A.R.E. commercial tragedy. In Darin’s words, “Music is part of my recovery and part of my healing now and I’m hoping that by being honest about my life, all my experiences will shine a light on this disease and also make others feel like they are not alone. We aren’t alone. We have each other. The song is called ‘All My Friends Are Dead’ but I’m hoping it will have the opposite effect and bring us together. Alone we can’t but together we can.”
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DS Exclusive: Le Big Zero debut new EP, “At Arm’s Length” AND new video for lead single, “Toy”
Happy Friday, comrades! We’ve got a super fun and, I think, different sort of EP that we’re debuting for you on this very page today. It comes from Brooklyn four-piece Le Big Zero. That’s them right down there! Say “hi” gang! If you’re not familiar with Le Big Zero, they’re self-described as “Angular indie rock. […]
Happy Friday, comrades! We’ve got a super fun and, I think, different sort of EP that we’re debuting for you on this very page today. It comes from Brooklyn four-piece Le Big Zero. That’s them right down there! Say “hi” gang!
If you’re not familiar with Le Big Zero, they’re self-described as “Angular indie rock. Post-punk. Pop melodies. Off-kilter timing. Boy-girl harmonies. Dissonance.” although in hindsight, maybe all of that is redundant given that I already mentioned that they’re from Brooklyn. ANYWAY, the foursome are putting out their brand-spankin’-new EP, At Arm’s Length today via Mint 400 Records. Here’s what the band had to say about the record:
Sometimes change is inevitable. Although our previous album was released in spring 2022, those songs were largely finished before the pandemic hit. When band life was ready to resume, we had a new drummer in Lukas and a new singer/guitarist with Katie. On top of this, we were all processing a new normal. The question became how do we evolve but keep the fabric of the band intact? The songs on At Arm’s Length were developed live in the room while continuing to learn each other’s styles, and by extension what the band now was. We workshopped what clicked and built the album around the ideas that came from those jams. The result ended up being a bit more driving and more emotionally intense, without losing those flourishes of musicianship, syncopation, and angularity that defined the first two albums. Lyrically, it’s a bit more direct. Almost as if the frustrations that could previously be masked in abstraction were now boiling over. Something like “Heavy Handed” takes a look at how there’s no middle ground anymore, just extreme opinions while “Spin Cycle” is a more introspective exploration about the time we all lost and how to view what a year, a month, or a day means now.
At Arm’s Length is available at all of the usual digital outlets of course, so make sure you pick up your own copy…but you can also listen to it here! Also, keep scrolling to check out the video for “Toy” below!
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DS Exclusive: Trailer Swift debut video for “Cross My Heart” from upcoming album, “Variant”
Happy Friday, comrades! Dying Scene is stoked to get to bring you yet another kick-ass video debut today. It’s from Boston-based progressive post-punks Trailer Swift, and it’s for a track called “Cross My Heart,” which is slated to appear on their upcoming album Variant. The video was filmed at the Midway Cafe, one of the […]
Happy Friday, comrades!
Dying Scene is stoked to get to bring you yet another kick-ass video debut today. It’s from Boston-based progressive post-punks Trailer Swift, and it’s for a track called “Cross My Heart,” which is slated to appear on their upcoming album Variant. The video was filmed at the Midway Cafe, one of the last great dive bar venues in their rapidly-gentrifying hometown and a place that’ll always occupy a special place in yours truly’s cold, dead heart.
Here’s what the band has to say about the clip:
“Cross My Heart” was shot at our favorite local club/watering hole in Boston. The idea behind the video was simple, make the viewer think we are the band, but then sit at the bar and ignore what’s going on, complain about life, and underappreciate the younger band getting label attention. Basically, to poke a little fun at ourselves and the way the music we grew up on (and love to write) is finding a new audience, but maybe, it’s not finding us.”
“A little meta, a little humor, and a lot of sarcasm. At one point in the video, you can clearly see that we might be changing our minds, but that moment quickly passes as we make fun of our own logo and cringe.”
Check it “Cross My Heart” below!
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DS Festival Gallery: Riot Fest Returns to Chicago for a Three-Day Weekend of Punk Rock Featuring Turnstile, Code Orange, Quicksand & More! (Day One, 9/15/23)
Is it already that time of year again!? Riot Fest is back and we have three days worth of photo galleries of some of your favorite bands and some up and coming bands you should put on your radar! Check out some of the bands from the first day of Riot Fest and give them […]
Is it already that time of year again!? Riot Fest is back and we have three days worth of photo galleries of some of your favorite bands and some up and coming bands you should put on your radar! Check out some of the bands from the first day of Riot Fest and give them some love.
FEA is a Chicana all-female band from San Antonio, TX. Produced by Laura Jane Grace, they debuted their self-titled LP in 2016. FEA set the bar early on for the first day of Riot Fest with their raw, fierce, and powerfully feminist punk rock energy.
New York-based garage punk band The Bobby Lees quickly become one of my favorite bands of the year after hearing “Guttermilk” for the first time. In true punk rock fashion their drummer, Macky Bowman, ran laps around the stage in nothing but his tighty whities (and that was just a warmup).
Code Orange is a sludgy, thrashy, metalcore punk rock band that obviously cannot be defined by only one single genre. Their intense set was one not to miss.
The LA ska-rockers The Interrupters are no strangers to Dying Scene! Riot Fest was only the beginning before they embark on their US fall tour with The Dropkick Murphys and Jesse Ahern.
Yard Act is a fun post-punk British band. Their newest single “The Trench Coat Museum” was released in July and co-produced by Gorillaz member Remi Kabaka Jr.
Walter Schreifels had a particularly busy Riot Fest weekend not only performing with Quicksand on day one, but also Rival Schools and Gorilla Biscuits on the following days. For its 30th anniversary, Quicksand played their 1993 album Slip in its entirety.
Turnstile was of the headliners for the first day (along with the Foo Fighters). Check out the rest of the photos from the first day below, and look out for our coverage of day two and three of Riot Fest!
