The Convenience - Accelerator - VINYL LP

It really was super natural, laughs Duncan Troast, explaining how he and Nick Corson came to form The Convenience, and though he means it was as organic as breathing, the music these two conjure is from an alternate reality. Pulling from a pastiche of 80's sounds and their own rolodex of future pop flourishes, their new album Accelerator sounds like a late-night disco party on a distant outpost, a sea of dancing bodies illuminated by an alien moon.The two met at New Orleans' Loyola University, where somewhat ironically, they ended up out of convenience. Troast grew up in a suburb of New Jersey, where he played piano until he Inchgot old enough to hate itInch, eventually drifting to jazz study, where his teacher became an early mentor. Nervous about the future, he stumbled on Loyola's music program, which you could apply to by simply submitting a performance video. Corson, on the other hand, was anxious to get as far away from San Francisco as he could, and figured he could find his way into a recording studio if he auditioned to study classical guitar.After orbiting each other for years, they ended up as supporting players in the local band Fishplate (whose principal songwriter, Grady Bell, now handles the iconic visual art for their band). It quickly became apparent that there was a special chemistry between the two, and they weren't the only ones to take note - while recording with Ross Farbe, the three struck up an immediate friendship, and he invited them to join his band, the rising pop group Video Age. The invitation couldn't have come at a better time - Corson had dropped out of school, and the two were fighting feelings of doubt, unmoored in their post-college lives. The offer to play in their favorite band and experience life on the road was the perfect antidote to their uncertainty. Before long, the two were spending the downtime between tours exploring what

Rosas Roy - Si Te Casas Conmigo [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/17/2004

Red Vinyl, Foldout lyric poster [w/ download card] Indie Exclusive. On Hammok's new album When Does This Place Become Our Scene, the Oslo trio's sophomore outing and first for Sargent House, their noise-rock, hardcore, and metal foundations expand into broader, more dynamic territory. Industrial textures, hip-hop-informed rhythms, synth-led passages, and progressive structures surface alongside classic punk urgency, revealing a band equally invested in abrasion and atmosphere. Produced by vocalist and guitarist Tobias Osland, the songs arrived in inspired bursts, even as the recording process proved painstaking. Tasked with refining and expanding their sound, Hammok tweaked and explored each track until it held all their competing impulses at once music that feels volatile and immediate yet dense with hooks and layered detail. True to it's title, When Does This Place Become Our Scene examines hardcore's lineage and social politics while widening it's focus to questions of belonging in an era shaped by the internet and hyperconnection. Balancing underground intensity with pop instinct, they arrived at an album equal parts scream-along cathartic and nod-along infectious.