Modern Vices, Mike Kolb & the Bulbs, Linear downfall, Whitewash, Peace Arrow

Self-proclaimed dirty doo-wop, Modern Vices are Alex, Peter, Thomas, Patrick, and Miles. They hail from Chicago. Noir in tone, their sound resides somewhere between late '50s croon and wet garage rock snarl. Their self-recorded, eponymous, LP drops in October via Los Angeles' Autumn Tone Records. A romantic revolution.


Linear Downfall, an experimental band from Nashville, is known for seamlessly blending psychotic noise along with beautiful melodies. Their music taps into the highs and lows of life and challenges one to look inward. Their live show is intense and jarring captivating the audience from beginning to end. They have self-released three albums, extensively toured the U.S., and caught the attention of the Flaming Lips which led to their side project called the Electric Würms.

In 2014, they toured in support of their third self-released album, "Fragmental Hippocampus" and released the first Electric Würms album, "Musik, die Schwer zu Twerk." A 5-song online release of brand new material was released in November as the band put the finishing touches on a 4th album, "Sufferland." The band plans to release "Sufferland" in 2015 along with a full-length film to correspond with the highly visual music of their new album.


Jon (bass) and Sam (guitar) met at NYU in the fall of their freshman year (2012) and promptly began playing along to the entire Ween discography as a duo, choosing bedroom jams with self-taught instruments over Washington Square busking. After meeting Evan (drums) and Aram (guitar), the now-complete outfit branched out to other oddities like Mac Demarco and Thee Oh Sees as well as classics like Led Zeppelin, unsure of where to take creative root. In the span of just a few weeks, Whitewash began channeling its own sound by experimenting with everything from bossa nova to noise rock; early Whitewash originals were raw, evocative, and simple -- remnants of this sound can be heard on appropriately named track "#1." A year of composition and test recordings evolved into the DIY debut EP "Fraud in Lisbon," produced entirely on Jon's laptop over the course of a semester at NYU -- budget restraints made the recording minimalist in stylistic approach, but it's also been described as a lush and developed sound, given its medium. The band made an appearance at several NYC venues following the release, and 3/4th's of the quartet promptly boarded jet planes to Paris and Prague, leaving the boys scattered across continents and oceans and icebergs and plains and waterparks and whales and rhinos.

Today, Whitewash is reuniting in NYC (LES) with a formidable number of demos to re-record and shows to play -- now lacking an ocean of separation, the boys can feel free to make the music that their souls demand so fiercely.


Mitch from Hear Hums.