Static in Verona is the work of Chicago musician Rob Merz, creating dreamy power pop weaved in an eclectic mixture of experimental, electronic and rock. A towering mass of sound built around uplifting, emotionally powerful choruses and epic arrangements.

All Static in Verona's music is available as a name-your-price (even free) downloads on Bandcamp at http://staticinverona.bandcamp.com and on all streaming and download platforms.

Sometimes You Never

Rearview

Changing is an L.A. love letter to riot grrrl and classic ‘70s-’80s glam rock. Greg and I started working on these songs in our practice space in Echo Park while we were between projects in 2016. TÜLIPS was about to play our final show at The Regent and I hadn’t gone solo yet, and LA Font was taking a break before Greg ever started Cheekface. Since Greg had produced most of the TÜLIPS catalog we had worked diligently in that practice space together for years, so we decided to see what would happen if we tried our hand at a co-write. We started meeting up and sketching out some song ideas. It felt like a period of great transition, so we decided to call the project Changing.

It was a jaded time–L.A. was changing so much and it didn't feel like the city I grew up in anymore. Pehrspace had shut down, and we didn’t have a spot to play regular shows.  Most of these songs are about emotional exile and reclaiming a sense of power, contending with impossible truths. So many school shootings and police brutality was happening that year too, and a lot of harm in our DIY community. I was thinking a lot about what happens in communities when there is harm but no proper support or accountability. How capitalistic and patriarchal structures trickle down even into DIY microcosms. I remember I was reading "Citizen" by Claudia Rankine the afternoon before we went in to write "Not a Citizen." I was thinking a lot about otherness and belonging and citizenship and exile and wanting to learn how to affect change, not having yet learned about transformative justice. "Damage Prone" is inspired by stories of my own, and stories from my friends: very strong women. We've all dated "that guy" who seemed pretty neutral at first and drawn to a strong woman who he's ended up trying to compete with or control, and then at the end, can't. That attitude of possession, entitlement, toxic masculinity, harms everyone involved--and I think the term "damage prone" encapsulated a clapback, and the whole song ended up being built around that lyric. 

We made demos of "Damage Prone" and "Not A Citizen" at our practice space and sadly, Greg’s laptop got stolen and they were lost. So we decided to start them from scratch during quarantine and see what would happen. We recorded everything separately in our own homes and sent the files back and forth through the airwaves. – Taleen

Changing – Damage Prone

'Bullpen' from 'Scrundle', the new EP from Parker Lee. Released independently Sept 4th 2020.

Lyrics:
Watching the bullpen shake its way crosstown
A one inch punch brings in the crowd
Some good intentions could miss their mark again,
If we made up like dying friends

But all my tides could never be
The longest break of a wave at sea
The best damn friends we would ever be

Hearing the corners my friends left out to me
I jig-and-saw the finished piece
Flatline of letters spelling out a need:
"I should go - or you should leave."

But both my eyes could hardly see
The darkest crack of a trench at sea
The best damn friends we would ever be

Keep those hands in front of me
A simple plan and a master key
A knife-like wound and it looks like me
The best damn friends we would ever be

Jowan Mead - songs, words, vocals, guitar
Annie Prior - guitar, bass, synth, percussion
Adrian Maidman - drums

Recorded by Annie Prior and Jowan Mead at The Fungalow.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Annie Prior at Red Chilli Recordings. Art by James Baily, @jamesmbaily on Instagram.

Scrundle

Bullpen

Nightmares

Hit Me

Virginia

'Super Sane' by SLUGS
Produced by Kenny Becker
Mastered by John Greenham

Super Sane

Hope You Know

Last Night From Glasgow proudly presents...

The first release from wojtek the bear. "ferme la bouche" will be released on all digital platforms on 26th February 2021. An accompanying video will premiere in the run up to release.
Longstanding fans will notice a slight detour in direction with the band channeling a more east coast USA feel, a whisper of Philadelphia soul permeates the ever recognisable rhythm of the band. Their new album "heaven by the back door" will be released in July and hopes prevail of a launch show at Glasgow's CCA.

wojtek the bear were formed in Glasgow in early 2016 and have been featured by Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music), Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1), Vic Galloway, Roddy Hart, The Afternoon Show (BBC Radio Scotland), John Kennedy & Gordon Smart (Radio X), KEXP.

They have featured at numerous festivals across the UK and Europe and appeared at Belle & Sebastian’s Boaty Weekender festival in Barcelona in 2019 alongside the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai, Yo La Tengo & Camera Obscura.

"...both delicately pretty and staggeringly imposing” – Louder Than War
”A joyous, soaring reminder of what guitars and vocals can do” - The Herald 
“A class act” - Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music)
“My new favourite band” - Gordon Smart (Radio X)

ferme la bouche

"Stationary Life" by Palma Louca

Lyrics:
Who are we? 
In this stationary life
Collide, divide, decide who you are
Blue screen beams 
Another sleepless night 
Surprise surprise
Defy who you are 

All we want to today is anything that'll take our minds away
If you don't live now then you won't live forever 
Moving through the open space, we hope and pray, we'll find something to say
If you don't live now then you won't live forever

I hope you know, it's going to start to fall apart, like pieces, of paper, in the rain
Oh, when it's over, and you wake up at the start
Do you fear it?
Can you feel it?
In the flames 

Green screen dreams
And a silicone wife
You try and try to hide who you are 
Smoke screen screams
On the eve of the fight 
The lies the lies 
Define who you are 


All we want to today is anything that'll take our minds away
If you don't live now then won't live forever 
Moving through the open space, we hope and pray, we'll find something to say
If you don't live now then you won't live forever

I hope you know, it's going to start to fall apart, like pieces, of paper, in the rain.
Oh, when it's over, and you wake up at the start
Do you fear it?
Can you feel it? 
In the flames

Stationary Life

Palma Louca - Stationary Life

Another Life

Hadda Be - Another Life

Sydney-based singer-songwriter Moody Beach (aka Melissah Mirage) shares her new single, “Why Not” out via Viscera Arts.

A follow-up to her lauded sophomore EP ‘Mirage’, Mirage continues to flourish in distilling her sound and lyrics as fluid expressions of her life experience, and exploration of agency and autonomy as a woman. Produced by Kim Moyes of The Presets, “Why Not” opens to a plucked bass line as Mirage’s hazy vocals cut to the fold, in a smoke-laced hit of instantly addictive melody. Between shoegaze-riddled fuzz and crisp snares, “Why Not” is the perfect amalgamation of analog and electro, as every note sits with clarity in Marie’s serenading world of indie-pop catharsis.

Moody Beach says about “Why Not”: “‘Why Not’ is about unfulfilled desire towards a person who is off-limits; how this desire muddles the brain and your capacity to think and act logically. To me, desire is one of the most primal human instincts. I revelled in the feeling and had a lot of fun writing the song. It was the perfect outlet and a cathartic release.”

Kim Moyes says about “Why Not”: “Even in the roughest & purest form of the demo, “Why Not” stood out as something instantly exciting and relatable. The overall energy struck me as a perfect, but unusual kind of left-field hot-and-bothered. Most importantly, I felt that Mel's lyrics nailed the sense of excitement, danger and angst of desire. It was an absolute pleasure to help realise Mel's vision for the record.”