Enumclaw: “Fast N All”
Tacoma, Washington’s Enumclaw bill themselves as “The Best Band Since Oasis,” but they’re self-released and, thanks to COVID, have never had a chance to play a live show.
Yuvee Rays - Former Eugene post-punk band releases new album
After fashioning a live-in vehicle from an 18-passenger van, Brendon and Jacob Broome, two brothers living in Dayton, Ohio, hit the road. Their plan was to travel, working odd jobs and playing music. “We traveled until we landed somewhere, and Oregon was the spot,” Brendon Broome tells me over the phone.
Album Stream: Peter Campanelli, 'Pesto Baby'
Having been a prolific songwriter since early teenage years, multi-instrumentalist Peter Campanelli’s work is steeped in prog/psych and funk. Combining lo-fi tape recordings with manipulations digitally offers the listener intricate, personal music that is hypnotic.
Under Review: Primp, Mother Loose
Mother Loose, a two sided single from Vancouver gals Primp, is the latest in an evolutionary process that has taken the band from lo-fi through power pop to garage rock.
Funny Face House - punk / proto punk on high from San Jose, California- hear "This Town"
Funny Face House exist in, cultivate their punky imaginings in San Jose, California pressing their hand stamped songs in the cement of their analog Tascam 488 and if I am not mistaken that both iconic, and bordering on vintage cassette, tape machine is an 8 track. There is something absolutely wonderful about recording with limitations because you have to get to the crux of the song as it makes things more easy, more organic, and way more punk.
PREMIERE: HAVANIA WHAAL “HORIZON”
Portland, Oregon duo, Havania Whaal are preparing to release their EP, Babcia on September 20th via Seattle’s Youth Riot Records. Surviving the Golden Age is excited to premiere the EP’s latest single, “Horizon.”