Tonight’s show is like a wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends. Listen to the Pulsating Sac Of Sound indie show Thursdays 6:30-8pm EST on WBOR 91.1 FM live or online!
Modern Bodies (“Down The Line”) — They formed in a basement in Tupelo, Mississippi in 2019 and built an early following through home-recorded psychedelic pop releases on their own label, Gun Club Records. Their sound mixes murky psych-pop with spacey noise rock.
Sugar World (“Terra Incognita”) — Their newer material has been described as blending jangly indie rock with electronic/digicore textures, inspired by bands like Mogwai and Primal Scream.
Eyedress (“Stoner Olympics”) — Eyedress is Filipino artist Idris Vicuña, known for fusing bedroom pop, post-punk, hip-hop, and shoegaze. Before music took off, he briefly worked in fashion design. He also started a skate/music collective called Psychedelic Industries.
Mogwai (“Ceiling Granny”) — Mogwai’s name supposedly came from the creatures in Gremlins, though the band later joked they regretted choosing it. They’ve become one of the defining post-rock bands of the last 30 years. The “Ceiling Granny” video uses archival skate footage dating back to 1995 — the year the band formed.
NE-HI (“Turncoat”) — Chicago garage-rock band NE-HI became indie favorites despite keeping a pretty low-profile, anti-hype image. Their sound pulls heavily from classic punk and glam rock.
THE BOBBY LEES (“50 Ft”) — This Woodstock, NY punk band is known for wild live shows and toured with acts like Amyl and the Sniffers and Jon Spencer. Henry Rollins has publicly praised them.
Thee Headcoats (“Jim Bowie”) — Fronted by cult garage-rock legend Billy Childish, Thee Headcoats recorded huge amounts of lo-fi music in the ‘90s and helped revive raw British garage punk.
Yung Lean (“STORM I”) — Yung Lean became an internet cult icon after “Ginseng Strip 2002” went viral. He basically helped push the “sad rap/cloud rap” aesthetic into the mainstream years before it exploded.
Ducktails (“Behind the Gate”) — Ducktails was the solo project of Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile, built around hazy cassette-recorded dream pop and chillwave textures.
zzzahara (“Chinese Tobacco”) — zzzahara blends shoegaze, indie rock, and bedroom pop, and also collaborated with Eyedress in their side project The Simps.
Pink Breath of Heaven (“Colors Make a Sound”) — One of those newer underground dream-pop/shoegaze projects that thrives more through Bandcamp and niche playlists than traditional promotion.
Midsommar (“Alice”) — A lot of newer bands using this name take inspiration from goth, shoegaze, and Scandinavian horror aesthetics (likely referencing the Ari Aster film).
Wheatus (“Teenage Dirtbag”) — The song became such a massive early-2000s anthem that many people forget Wheatus are actually a long-running DIY rock band that continued releasing music independently after label issues.
TV Star (“Space Person”) — Their sound taps into retro glam/synth aesthetics with a heavy influence from ‘70s Bowie-style art rock.
Alive Girl (“On This Earth”) — Part of the current wave of lo-fi dream-pop/post-punk artists releasing heavily online-first music with strong shoegaze influence.
