Algae Dust
Algae Dust began as Al Setili's first solo project and has since evolved into a collaborative trio. Setili is joined by Gram Tolish on drums - the two reuniting a few years after playing together in their former band, Frankie Valet - and Hannah Rainey of Shady Bug on guitar/ bass. Hannah's addition to the band also marks a musical reunion as Rainey's own solo project, Hennen, released a split record with Algae Dust in 2021.
In Hindsight blends the ethereal underpinnings of Algae Dust's debut release with full-band elements of rock guitar, shoegaze fuzz, and indie pop melody.
amiright
amiright? is a Maine 3 piece cousin-rock band from Noah, Quinn, and Simi. amiright? started in 2014 when cousins Noah and Quinn would meet in Central Maine on school vacations to record improvised noise songs to a usb microphone. The two share duties on drums, guitar, vocals, and songwriting, allowing for a varied, yet cohesive, sound. The band is inspired by rock, horror, hardcore, lofi, doom, freak folk, and music of the Northeast. They currently play frantic rock songs with touches of noise, pop, folk, and metal. The trio likes to change up their sound, laugh with each other, and listen to prank calls on the road.
Free Casino
Beggar’s Pitch, the first full-length album by Free Casino is the culmination of a two year journey that finds the band disposing of all musical inhibitions. Formed in 2019 in Rochester, and now residing in Brooklyn, Free Casino dare their audience to grow with them as their songs buckle and weave through every turn.
Presently, the three-piece draws liberally from the angular, playfulness of 90’s alternative rock, as well as the jagged fringes of contemporary post-punk. With a dense interlocking guitar sound married to casual pop sensibility, Free Casino’s unlikely approach on Beggar’s Pitch yields results that are equal parts catchy and abrasive. The lyric-crafting, too, speaks to the emotional range in the group’s writing. Vocalists Jake Denning and Sean Saville trade roles as absurdist narrators, existing at an ironic distance from their caricatures. Wavering from disaffected, to contrition, to plain boredom, the stories told through these lyrics carry a rhythm of their own.
Listeners will find Beggar’s Pitch to be an organic evolution of Free Casino’s sound prior. Tracks like ‘Slam Dunk Highlights’ showcase the band’s ability to heel-turn between contemplative and manic moods. ‘Search Engine,’ on the other hand, forces an incessant urgency, propelling the track to its nerve-wracking climax. The voice of Free Casino on Beggar’s Pitch can never be taken so seriously—but the trio’s range should be.
Gorgeous
Egg is a whirling dervish of a record from the duo of Dana Lipperman and Judd Anderman. Across Egg, the dynamic guitar of Lipperman is a destabilizing force, rarely settling into a comfortable groove, and often perilously pushing forward while being pulled back by Anderman's grounding drumming. The first single "Shed Boys" enumerates this: Lipperman's guitar is a squall enveloping the relentless drumming, furiously articulating the pathos behind Lipperman's lyrics. Building on contemporaries like Palm, Krill, Pile, and Rong, Gorgeous began in 2017 but first met many years earlier, in 6th grade science class with Mr. Holland back in the pre-aughts. A shared love of weird, rippin' music brought them together and drove them apart many times before this current strange alchemy was achieved.
Leafing
Leafing was born in Brooklyn in 2019. The band released their self-titled debut in 2021. Together, Miles Toth (bass, vocals), Sebastian Green (drums), Adam Turay (guitar), and Dominic Green (guitar, vocals) have spent the last several years piecing together their new album, Folding Then to Now, out on Sad Cactus Records on September 13th, 2024.
This New Basement
This New Basement is a four-piece with an experimental bent. Combining aspects of prog, indie rock, and jazz, This New Basement sculpt complex and layered soundscapes with crescendos of noise and melody.
Tundrastomper
Tundrastomper is four childhood friends who live in Western Mass and love it. They follow in the DIY tradition of writing, performing, and recording unconventional music in conventional basements. Their ever intriguing body of work to date spans 2 LPs, 1 EP, and an experimental tape (their latest) titled "For Steffen Only" is a caterwauling and expansive trip through the Tundrastomper organism. It is not to be missed, and it is unlike anything before it (and possibly after it, but who knows...!).
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Alumni:
Palm
Floral Print
Allegra
Full Body
Jack
Fern Mayo
Mothpuppy
LOOKERS
Powerwasher
Inactive:
Abi Reimold
Aural Burrows
Bathtub Cig
Big Fred
Bucket
Darkturn
Double Grave
Evil Wizardry
Fake Boyfriend
Fitness
Goodnight Daniel
Keeper
Lady Parts
Pre-Willy
Quarrels
Rita
Spew
SUPERTEEN
Trophy Dad
Whitewash