Stroke Band - Green & Yellow - VINYL LP

Color Green is an American Rock and Roll Duo based in Los Angeles, consisting of Noah Kohll (Current Joys, Young Guv, Surf Curse, Dark Tea) and Corey Madden (Richard Rose, Grave Flowers Bongo Band).Their sound culls from the eternal solitude of working musicians, the feeling of infinite transition, and the need to create a space that transmits the strange sounds of American music. Pulling from the Allman Brothers, Acetone, the Grateful Dead, and other acts from the dusty storage boxes of their attics, Color Green are searchers for a continuation of classic songwriting through the use of collaboration and close examination of the relics of yesterday's past, while maintaining the spirit of their present selves. The duo formed in Ridgewood, Queens in 2018. They created a 4 song self-titled debut EP released by Maximum Exposure in 2020. Recently signing to ORG Music for a co- with Aquarium Drunkard, Color Green's highly anticipated debut album will premiere on 7/22/22. Album Tracks 1. Warbling Sky 2. Ill Fitting Suit 3. Ain't It Sad 4. Bell of Silence 5. Ruby 6. Verdolaga Dreams 7. Stretchin' Thumbs 8. Blizzed Out

Arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger, The Strokes offer a Rock & Roll antidote to the plague of boy bands, teen divas, and petulant rap-rock outfits. Despite this quintet's prep-school background, their sound comes from the same primordial ooze that spawned Big Apple legends like the New York Dolls and the Velvet Underground. Clocking in at 36 minutes, IS THIS IT packs it's perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map. Among the many highlights are InchLast NiteInch with it's insistent Motown backbeat and choppy Johnny Thunders-like guitar solo, InchBarely Legal,Inch sounding like 1980's-era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the jangly InchSomedayInch with it's hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break-up. While frontman Julian Casablanca's (son of Elite Models founder John) drawls like Lou Reed through a busted intercom, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr.. do Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd proud as their sinewy chords intertwine to great effect on the angular InchThe Modern AgeInch and equally neurotic InchAlone, Together.Inch Thanks to The Strokes, rumors of Rock & Roll's demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Album Tracks 1. Is This It 2. Modern Age 3. Soma 4. Barely Legal 5. Someday 6. Alone Together 7. Last Nite 8. Hard to Explain 9. NYC Cops 10. Trying Your Luck 11. Take It or Leave It

The 4th full-length studio album by Robert Alfons aka TR/ST (fka Trust), 'Performance,' sinks even further into the nasty synth-pop psychodrama that the project has pioneered and, finally, perfected across over a decade of evolution. Recorded in Los Angeles, the songs seethe with dread, lust, reckoning, and abandon, backlit by the light pollution of a thousand dead end city streets. Alfons co-produced the collection with versatile composer and producer Nightfeelings, achieving a thick, smoky balance of eerie synths, fog machine low end, and bruised, crooning voice. The title alludes to a friend's offhand remark about Alfons' intrinsically performative nature. The opener, InchSoon,Inch swells to life with hymnal electronics before kicking through the dance floor with a huge new wave hook, spiked with caustic kiss-off lyrics (InchAsleep I still say it aloud / Scared stiff it's all around / We never did call it off, now our organs dried / Scared stiff to stone, you liarInch). The music moves between beauty and bitterness, anthem and anguish, the sound of melancholia gone massive. On track after track, Alfons wields pop dynamics and brooding production wizardry like a weapon, spiraling through a roll call of singles - InchAll At Once,Inch InchThe Shore,Inch InchDark Day,Inch InchBoys of LA.Inch Throughout, there's a sense of emotional turmoil elevated to strange heights, stained by guilt and ghosts and the memory of those wronged and those still unforgiven. As a world unto itself, 'Performance' is persuasive, immersive, and intoxicating, at the threshold of stirring and disturbing. Alfons' voice is the anchor in the storm, singing a collage of impressions and confessions with a smeared, stream of consciousness logic. He's both observer and instigator, performer and playwright, liberated by the stage and the night InchNow we see the rotten mind / It's eye to eye and myste