“Mullenhour's vocals rise to heated roars worthy of stardom, which lend themselves perfectly to Touched by Ghoul's brand of rock that is loud and heavy..." -- Gaper's Block

"Sounds like some long-lost ferocious ’90s punk cult hit, like the unholy love child of Bratmobile and The Lunachicks...A record that starts strong, and only gets better from there." -- The Onion AV Club

Chicago quartet Touched By Ghoul are streaming their forthcoming sophomore album Cancel The World today via Echoes & Dust ahead of…

“One of the most fluid, inspired and downright beautiful albums of 2019. Where artists like Thundercat fully embrace the chaos of splattering genres against one another, Nord has created fusion in the most complete sense: a music whose appeal is based on finding the cohesion between various influences.” 8.8/10 — Paste Magazine

“The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, April 2019: A nerd-friendly dose of refreshingly oddball hip-hop.” — Bandcamp Daily

“Ceaseless in its sonic exploration, restless in its vision and…

New Zealand trio Die! Die! Die! announce their forthcoming new album This Is Not An Island Anymore, sharing the first single today via New Noise Magazine. Hear and share "Losing Sight, Keep On Kicking" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp and SmartURL.)

Since their debut in 2005, Die! Die! Die! has blended a powerful and infectious concoction of post-punk, noise pop, shoegaze, lo-fi, and punk rock into one massive sounding whole. Fresh for a global pandemic outbreak, the trio returns in its original lineup for their…

“Mullenhour's vocals rise to heated roars worthy of stardom, which lend themselves perfectly to Touched by Ghoul's brand of rock that is loud and heavy..." -- Gaper's Block

Chicago quartet Touched By Ghoul share the title track from their forthcoming sophomore album Cancel The World today. Hear and share "Cancel The World" via Bandcamp, Spotify and Apple Music. 

New Noise Magazine recently shared lead single "Better Than Me" HERE.

Funny story: Chicago’s quartet of weirdos Touched By Ghoul recorded their…

“One of the most fluid, inspired and downright beautiful albums of 2019. Where artists like Thundercat fully embrace the chaos of splattering genres against one another, Nord has created fusion in the most complete sense: a music whose appeal is based on finding the cohesion between various influences.” 8.8/10 — Paste Magazine

“The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, April 2019: A nerd-friendly dose of refreshingly oddball hip-hop.” — Bandcamp Daily

“Ceaseless in its sonic exploration, restless in its vision and…

Below is a quick roundup of all of the RidingEasy Records releases from 2021 for your Best of 2021 consideration. Please let me know if you need any additional information — and of course, if you plan to include some of them in your year-end picks, we’d love to know!

For convenience, here’s a Spotify playlist with all of the albums combined:

open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ludn9xAeZh57sNF1tyaqC?si=68ea44245561435d&nd=1

Or, hear the individual albums via Bandcamp:

ridingeasyrecords.bandcamp.com

"An immersive insight into the band's captivating sonic attack." -- Sleeping Shaman

Longstanding Austin, TX band ST 37 are streaming their forthcoming new album Over and Over and Over Again ahead of release today via Echoes & Dust. Hear and share the album HERE. (Direct Bandcamp.)

All the while working extemporaneously on the material that will (fairly) soon become our forthcoming studio LP Ballardesque, during the pandemic ST 37 was presented with the always challenging imposition of artistic limitations on…

"Nine face-melting, gut-busting tracks that run the gamut from New Wave of British Heavy Metal to thrash to glam metal." -- Ultimate Classic Rock

The curators of the popular Brown Acid compilation series of long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal singles share the last pre-release track today from the first edition of a new series titled Scrap Metal. Following chronologically where Brown Acid leaves off, Scrap Metal scours the world for long-lost, rare and unreleased Heavy Metal from the late-70s through…

"An immersive insight into the band's captivating sonic attack." -- Sleeping Shaman

Longstanding Austin, TX band ST 37 announce their forthcoming new album Over and Over and Over Again for release on Belfast, Northern Ireland label Pariah Child Records. Today the band shares the title track and first single via The Sleeping Shaman HERE. (Direct Bandcamp.)

All the while working extemporaneously on the material that will (fairly) soon become our forthcoming studio LP Ballardesque, during the pandemic ST 37 was…

“Neckbolt are truly onto something special... Making noise rock in their own way, deranged and slurred, loud and abrasive, but colorful and a bit psychedelic.” — Post-Trash

"An intense, heavy and trippy noise rock sound, balancing the thunderous punch of Lightning Bolt with the squealing psychedelia of early Flaming Lips." -- Treble

"Sonically challenging—think N8NOFACE meets Flaming Lips’ recent experimental records, but with strong hooks at the core." -- New Noise

Austin, TX band Neckbolt are streaming their…