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“The Bottom Line” is the first thing anyone outside the room is hearing from Risk It’s new album. It’s also the first song the band wrote for it. Dresden’s Risk It have been at it since 2009. Today they premiere the highly promising opening cut from their upcoming full-length “Mercy For None“, out July 3 on WAR Records. Preorders go live...

The voices that open “Blurry Creatures” belong to drummer Zack Kelly’s children. They were recorded after the rest of the song had already been demoed and shelved, multiple group takes layered together to mimic a guitar line Kelly couldn’t get out of his head. For a band that has spent two decades operating as a strictly instrumental outfit, that chant is...

Australian new wave synth post-punks screensaver are ten days into a European tour and have stopped for three days in Dieppe, on the northern coast of France, before the German leg begins Monday in Berlin. The Melbourne-based five-piece played Paris on May 21st, then crossed the Channel for a UK run that took in Tunbridge Wells, Nottingham, Glasgow, Sheffield, Bristol, London, M...

A lot of the songs on Oh Hiroshima’s new album have been waiting somewhere in Jakob Hemström’s archive. The opener, “Servant of All,” was written a couple of albums back and held over because Hemström always liked it. The opening riff on “Meridian” came from the same archive. “Angelos” goes back ten years to an alt/indie band Hemst...

J.D. Morgan was on the fire escape outside his Milwaukee apartment, three stories up, working through a guitar piece he’d been fleshing out at home. Gunshots came from the parking lot of the nightclub below. A 43-year-old man had been shot twice. He lived. The lyrics to “Invisible” poured out over the next few days. That sequence is most of what you need to kno...