Kurt Orzeck

1 week ago | newnoisemagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

On an unusually sunny and gorgeous spring afternoon in Sheffield, England, Alex Taylor—vocalist for skyrocketing British metal maniacs Malevolence—isn’t frolicking in the countryside, even though he does frequently admire it when looking through the picture window in his room.

1 week ago | floodmagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

KeepAlmost StaticSELF-RELEASEDNever has a band that’s not Mercury Rev sounded more like Mercury Rev than Keep. And with nefarious AI running rampant these days, there’s a sliver of a chance that the artists are one and the same. But, conspiracy theories aside, here’s Keep in a nutshell: Their generic band name must be a curse for PR and promotional campaigns for their new LP Almost Static, yet their enthralling music breathes new life into alt-rock, oh-so-refreshingly.

1 week ago | floodmagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

The Singaporean indie rockers’ jangly fifth record proselytizes the beauty of the natural world, providing hope with deliriously catchy tunes that channel ’90s groups like Superchunk and GBV. Subsonic EyeSingapore DreamingTOPSHELFIt’s not every day that a writer for an American indie-rock website gets to introduce music fans to a band from Singapore. But of course there are musicians living in Singapore—don’t Wormrot and newly signed Kanine artist Blush sound familiar? OK, maybe not.

1 week ago | newnoisemagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

If you pause in your tracks—or pause in your paws, as it were—it won’t take long to realize that the most pervasive and prevalent stereotype about pet owners just ain’t true. The most enduring and simple-minded myth about pet owners is that they share a common denominator personality-wise. Pet owners unwaveringly prefer critters to cretins. They’re socially maladjusted. They get so attached to their furry companions that they forget that human beings have feelings too.

2 weeks ago | newnoisemagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

Milk does a body good (or so corporate advertisers would lead us to believe). Either way, when it comes to young musicians, there’s a far more critical routine that goes well beyond simply downing a glass of leche—if a band wants to live out a healthy career, that is: Tour to the point of exhaustion in your early years. The reasons for doing so are at least twofold: Touring virtually guarantees that a band will increase its fanbase in their homeland and around the rest of the world.