Tag: lifeguard
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Sharp Pins – “How Can I Explain What She Does To Me?”
The answer to Sharp Pins’ pining question is all in the sound on this kaleidoscopically swooning preview from his new EP ‘Electric My Icebox’.
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Sharp Pins – “Saturday Sun”
With Sharp Pins in charge of the weather, the forecast is sounding great for the foreseeable future with the power-pop songwriter’s psychedelic new single.
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Recommended EP: Lifeguard – “Ultra Violence” / “Appetite”
A wild, weird, unassumingly cool experiment with no rules or concrete expectations, this maxi single from the Chicago noisy punk firestarters leaves you piqued for whatever comes next.
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Recommended Album: Various Artists – ‘RED XEROX: Chicago Youth Beat 2020 – 2025’
This comprehensive compilation of the modern Chicago underground rock scene documents how it may have begun with Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko, but doesn’t sound like it’s going to end with them either.
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The Best Industrial, Noise Rock & Post-Punk Albums of 2025
If you want to a hold a mirror to the current state of the world through art, then look no further than the artists who are creating music from the darkest corners of the spectrum with the Best Industrial, Noise Rock & Post-Punk Albums of 2025.
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The 50 Best Albums of 2025
An overwhelming transitional year in music gives way for those creating exciting new shapes in sound across the underground and mainstream alternative to be seen with the 50 Best Albums of 2025.
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Recommended Album: Sharp Pins – ‘Balloon Balloon Balloon’
The Lifeguard guitarist’s latest album as Sharp Pins throws power-pop nostalgia for a loop where every moment and its idiosyncratic craft has you hanging on, as if it’s the first time you’ve ever heard music made this way.
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Lifeguard – “Ultra Violence”
An intent to blaze their own trail is to be assumed on the fiery first preview from the Chicago art-punk trio’s new maxi-single.
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Sharp Pins – “Queen Of Globes and Mirrors”
Proof that the rearview of indie rock and the underground before it still lives on with royal reverence in the diamond eyes of Kai Slater.