Daydreamer
Philly's grunge-gaze newcomers, Daydreamer, aren’t afraid to hold anything back on their thrilling debut EP. The crushing guitars rip through you as the excellently written, apartment recorded, vocals wash over you.
FFO: Nothing, Shift, Sunday Drive Records
Del Paxton
Del Paxton are an American alternative rock band from Buffalo, New York. The band formed in 2013 and are named after the fictional jazz pianist portrayed by Bill Cobbs in the 1996 film That Thing You Do! They played their first show in May 2013 in Fredonia, New York.
FFO: Mock Orange, Moneen, Third Eye Blind
The Dravo Slant
Two bass guitars, drums, and synthesizer. As the good lord intended.
FFO: Dianogah, Tortoise, Ativin
Eighty-Sixed, Kid
Rooted in the ethos of DIY punk but indebted to the hooks and
heart-on-sleeve sincerity of early-2000s emo and indie, Eighty-Sixed, Kid sound equally at home in a sticker-covered basement or echoing through a battered PA in a warehouse show.
FFO: The Get Up Kids, Sugar, Superchunk
French Film
Austin, TX's premier old-head band, featuring members of Pswingset, Brother/Ghost, and I'd Really Like to See You Again.
FFO: Blonde Redhead, Denali, Pretty Girls Make Graves
Mall Walker
Like revivalists such as Grown Ups, Snowing, and Prawn who brought mathy, DIY-rooted emo back from the brink of extinction in the early 2010s, Mall Walker is on a mission to prove that there are still things worth saying that can only be said with a Telecaster capoed at the fifth fret and tuned to open G.
FFO: Hot Water Music and Owls
No Edits
Seattle three-piece No Edits play an angular, idiosyncratic form of melodic post-hardcore that fans of the late 90s Dischord and Jade Tree catalogs will find immediately familiar. But even though the DNA of greats like Burning Airlines and These Arms Are Snakes is clearly detectable in the band’s mathy yet tuneful approach, No Edits is uninterested in nostalgia.
FFO: Faraquet, Burning Airlines, Q and not U
Pswingset
Born in Akron, OH and coming of age in Austin, TX, Pswingset has somehow navigated through the various waves of emo without completely self destructing.
FFO: No Knife, Jawbox, Shiner
Spares
What would in lesser hands be a jumbled mess of incongruous sonic references is instead a harmonious blend of disparate sounds that evokes all of the band’s various influences while sounding like none of them.
FFO: Metz, Pissed Jeans, The Jesus Lizard
Teeth Marks
Slow and heavy purveyors of DIY from Columbus, Ohio.
FFO: True Widow, Cloakroom, Idaho
Wandering Years
Wandering Years is the recording project of Gene Stroman and friends; NYC slowcore by way of VA.
FFO: Songs: Ohia, Centro-matic, Sun Kil Moon