Early next month Rachel Gagliardi is releasing Forget About Me, her full-length debut album as Pouty. Gagliardi has been playing in various indie punk outfits for years now, including as one-half of Slutever and later as part of Upset. She first began recording as Pouty in 2013, collaborating with Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zuner on a song-a-day project.
Nashville-based power pop outfit The Dreaded Laramie debuted in 2019 with their self-titled EP and followed last year with a new three-track EP, Everything A Girl Could Ask, produced and co-written with Rozwell Kid’s Adam Meisterhans. With those projects, they began introducing their sweet, propulsive, and punchy style of indie punk, a style they’re expanding on with a forthcoming debut LP.
Minneapolis indie punk trio VIAL have been on the rise since their 2021 debut Loudmouth, a record that found the band trading on a brash, noisy, and hooky style of punk, complete with earworm chants and grungy guitar lines. Since then, they’ve shared a new single last year, “Embryo,” and followed this year with a cover of Nirvana’s “Territorial Pissings” and last month’s single, “just fine.”
Vancouver-based indie punk outfit Night Court debuted in 2021 and 2022 with a tight, scrappy, and lo-fi pair of records, Nervous Birds! One and Too, before returning earlier this year with a third full-length album, HUMANS! Later this month, the band are keeping that momentum going with a new EP, Frater Set, an EP of Halloween-themed tracks perfect for the height of spooky season.
Chrissie Hynde brought the Pretenders to the Bowery Ballroom last night and blew the lid off the small club.
It was just as if it were 1981 and she was playing the Ritz. Listening to Hynde, and her band all new players you'd think no time had passed. Her voice remains supple and soaring, no