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Plus Kim Gordon, Shower Curtain, Tunng, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Oct 11, 2024
By Mark Redfern (with Caleb Campbell)
Welcome to the 33rd Songs of the Week of 2024.This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. It wasn’t the most inspiring week for new tracks, so we considered over 20 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 8. More
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Oct 09, 2024
By Caleb Campbell
DC punk band Ekko Astral drew critical acclaim earlier this year with their debut album pink balloons. Billed by the band as a “mascara mosh pit,” the record was sprawling, noisy, and confrontational, but also was deeply personal to the band. They first got their start partly as guitarist Liam Hughes’s graduate thesis and partly as a place for frontwoman Jael Holzman to vent her frustrations. The record was a work of anxiety, fury, and unity, with many of its best moments coming as the band blazes in ecstatic collective catharsis. More
Interviews
“So often people are trying to tell you how to feel. We're just trying to show people how people feel.”
Oct 16, 2024
By Caleb Campbell
“THE DISTRICT SLEEPS ATONED TONIGHT.” Those are the final words screamed on “Pomegranate Tree,” the latest single from D.C. punk band Ekko Astral. The words are a condemnation and indictment, coming after six minutes of build-up as the dusty guitars and off-kilter grooves of the track’s early minutes shift into a turbulent maelstrom. More
