TRASHCLUB Return with Sophomore Effort "Big Horns On My Truck"

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TRASHCLUB finally returns with their long awaited sophomore effort“Big Horns On My Truck”. As far as new records go, this one does what few are brave enough to attempt in today’s current musical landscape, namely, get loud. In a sea of faceless “sound-a-likes” chasing the flavor of the moment TRASHCLUB continues to rock fast, hard and with a blatant disregard for what everyone else is doing.

Continuing in the vein of their first release “Black Out” the group (which splits time between Los Angeles and Atlanta, GA) set out to make a record their pioneering heroes would be proud of. Instead of latching onto to the reoccurring themes and styles over-saturating Spotify playlists everywhere, TRASHCLUB’s sound harkens back to the days of the Ramones and Motor City 5. This is intentional on the part of chief songwriters in the group Evan Andree and Travis Bunn. “Our goal is always to get moving fast in these songs, and to not overthink what we are doing” Says Andree. “The whole idea behind punk when it was first becoming a thing was to be minimalistic; just vocals, loud guitars and drums and bass.”

While their sound is in good company with contemporary connoisseurs of gutter rock like Fidlar and Japandroids, it’s also on its own plain of existence. In songs like the anthem to mediocrity “Getting By”, Andree’s staccato vocals feel like a machine gun blast over the pounding toms and palm muted guitar riffs. “Be With You” is decidedly very “Trashcluby” and feels like the most natural progression of of what the the group started on their first record. 

All things considered, some art is meant to be just part of a fad, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But some creativity stands the test of time and can resonate in any decade (or century). Does TRASHCLUB fall into this category with “Big Horns On My Truck”? Ultimately they really don’t care. They’re here, they’re loud, and they do what they want without asking permission. And this very ethos may have sparked the creation of a record that will still be relevant for many years to come. 

Oceaneater Releases "Strike Twice"

Reminiscent of artists such as Ty Segal and Bass Drum of Death, one could say Oceaneater has taken the the training wheels off rock and roll with his first single “Strike Twice”. It pounds through it’s chord changes and chanty, slightly discordant melodies with a nonchalance that both feels genuine and refreshingly not-overworked. In a world where little rocker boys overthink everything they do from their hair cuts to their latest instagram post, Oceaneater puts his sound through it’s paces before most artists can figure out which hashtag to use or the best angle for their next story update. 

In 2016 Timothy Kelley, the braintrust behind Oceaneater, decided to leave his flourishing career as a fine dining chef working in the kitchens of industry stalwarts such as Per Se in NYC and Providence in LA and reconnect with his southern roots in Atlanta, Ga. Once there he transitioned his creative mojo out of the kitchens of the Creme de la creme and re-channel it into the lowbrow world of dive bar friendly garage rock. Kelley straight away began to craft what would become “Strike Twice” and several other forthcoming singles, eventually teaming up with writer/producer Evan Andree (member of TRASHCLUB and collaborator with the likes of Vintage Culture, Gigi Rich, Kyle Lucas, etc.) to help round out the tracks. 

Oceaneater brings a freshness to the genres of surf and garage rock. A decidedly southern essence permeates this traditionally west coast sound, verging on the point of country a la Johnny Cash and Dr. Hook. While purposely not re-inventing the wheel (honestly the more you over think rock and roll, generally the worse it is) he does seamless mesh his own origin and upbringing into a style of music that’s never quite seen such a pairing. 

“Strike Twice” hits hard, hits fast, and leaves you wanting more. With it Oceaneater deliver’s his preliminary work, ushering us into an irreverent piece of art that doesn’t take it’s self quite that seriously, and we can’t wait to hear what else he has to say. 


Evan Andree Releases Single "Your Heart"

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As the days shorten, the clouds go grey, and winter settles in upon us, we naturally feel our biology long to turn within. The cold weather seems to chill the vibrance we’ve experience over the warmer months. Several things tend to happen in this time, not all of which are pleasant. 


It takes a special headspace to be able to look at the solemn, morbid, or depressing aspects of one’s own life in a clinical light. We often get swept into the weighted ocean of our own feelings and impression, and our failures contrasting with our dreams. The bitterest part of winter (but also one of it’s most beautiful qualities) is how easily we can enter this haunted space and explore the depths of the negative sides of the human experience. 


Enter Evan Andree’s new song “Your Heart”. This space of introspection is germinated in a womb of creativity and brings forth a sonic embodiment to match. A song that feels like waking up late, full of anxiety, under clouded skies. 


Lyrically, Andree abandons recent mountaintops and settles in to explore the valleys relationships experience. It’s a pedestrian part of life that at any given moment, in any situation , two people can decide that something is mutually in place between them and will hereafter be counted on as a constant. But what happens when one party revokes this?


Sometimes we must embrace this dissonance, or else it will forever stay buried in our psyche. So here’s to taking that deep breath, holding for a moment, and diving into the darkened depths of “Your Heart”. 

Evan Andree is a producer and songwriter splitting time between LA and Atlanta. Many of his songs and projects have been featured in Film and Television (Shameless, No Tomorrow, Decoding Annie Parker) and been used in advertising with such companies such as Delta, Verizon, Boeing, and many more. He is a part of the bands TRASHCLUB and Shyla Buff along with writing for many artists and producers. 


Weather The Boy release single "Afraid"

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Time and location change, people stay the same. Or is that just another superstition that we all have heard and taken in as truth without ever really inspecting the validity of the point? I suppose, like many things, the truth is in the eye of the beholder.

If the truth is beheld by Weather The Boy (AKA Evan Andree), the inherent accuracy in these observations gets even more convoluted. For instance, the project and name embodied by “Weather The Boy” are old; the project released the album “Sink Low” in 2015 with the artist’s name cut down to simply “Weather” and Andree has long held the instagram handle Weathertheboy in respect to the project. So same band, same handle.

Skip three years later, however, and the name is different yet the same: Weather The Boy as an artist is born and fully comes into being. Andree returns to the scene with his new single “Afraid”. And yes, you guessed it: it’s the same, yet it’s not. The track pays homage to the folk roots of “Sink Low” while also exploring a handful of new elements. Grimy synths and mellotron laden leads harking back to the days of Motown sneak into the cracks left in what otherwise would be a sparsly populated Americana song that would have fit comfortably on a vintage release by Dylan or Springsteen.

The track seems almost upbeat compared to Andree’s past offerings, but is kept down to an earth we can all relate to by it’s insistence that everything is changing and ,in light of this volatility, it’s okay to be afraid. Time and location certainly, but Weather The Boy as a human and an artist seems to prove the old idiom false.