#new now

[bandcampsnoop]

6/23/26.

P. Noid is one of two bands currently releasing music for Pocket Rocket Records (Chicago, Illinois). The other band, Answering Machines, have already sold out their tape. Both bands have embraced a 90s lo-fi aesthetic.

It's been noted all over the place that Chicago is quite the indie scene right now. P. Noid does have a song on the great "Red Xerox" compilation (Eli Schmitt) on New Now that documents the current group Chicago punk rockers.

P. Noid and Answering Machines make me think of a louder/more rocking version of The Capstan Shafts, which is a comparison that goes back a ways. Other times they recall Blue Suede Platforms.

[withinsight-motivation]

[photoshamanism]

Topology of a cloudy day

[perceptuality]

JPW3, Stay Calm, 2013, Phillips: New Now (September 2016)

[bandcampsnoop]

2/20/26.

I'm not usually one for compilations. But every once in a while, I do fall for them. "Tuatara" captured the early Flying Nun scene. "Human Music" introduced me to the diversity of indie music in the late 1980s (The Clean, Yo La Tengo, etc.). Lately, I've been extolling the Chicago music scene, and bam:

New Now, a label/magazine/YouTube series run by Eli Schmitt is releasing an LP compiling some of the Chicago indie scene's greatest bands: Horsegirl, Sharp PIns, Lifeguard, Dwaal Troupe, Friko, and Uniflora have all been covered here on the blog. But there's so much more including an enchanting song from Amaya Peña that sounds like a cousin to early Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

The LP also comes with a 20 page "'zine"handmade biographic zine on the scene".

[photoshamanism]

We are stardust....

[grrlmusic]

LIFEGUARD - NEW NOW