For the better part of the last 15 years, the duo of Max Dameron (guit/vox) and Sam Ford (drums/vox) have been too weird and too wild for this lame-ass planet. After enjoying vagabond stints living in Portland, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn, they now call Detroit home. Here they rebuild, out of the scraps and wreckage of the 21st century, something which casts aside any rules or adherence to banal tropes.
Specializing in the unexpected, Max and Sam have wrought an individual sound that’s as much post-Melvins sludge punk as it is futurist prog metal. Their forthcoming self-titled debut, recorded in 2022 at High-Bias in Detroit, puts on display the fruits of their metamorphosis. From the soaring triumphal fuzz of “Uncanny Valley” or the sweep and thrust of “House of Butterflies” their craft is precise, they’re just making up their own shapes to sculpt.
Times change and artists mature: now under the name PSYCHIC TRASH, Ford and Dameron come to Riding Easy Records as veterans turning a fresh page, reinvigorated at the prospect of forging a new path and the beneficiaries of about a decade and a half’s slog through the underground. Psychic Trash’s self-titled debut is unmistakably uncompromising, a little theatrical, intermittently manic, and deceptively broad in style for just how much punk rests beneath.
No Can Fly
No Can Fly is an American rock band formed in Boise ID in 2021. In November 2022 they released their first self-recorded EP called Spider Dreams and shortly after that released a single called Bird Radar. The trio consists of guitar player and word man Tim Gates, bass player Jacob Gates and drummer Lucas Ventura.
No Can Fly makes music that explores different time signatures, heavy sounds and grooves with sometimes less orthodox song structures. They take inspiration from different aspects of music be it 90s alternative, post hardcore, vintage prog-rock as well as lighter indie rock sounds. No can fly, as a band, likes to keep a creative open mind as they continue to evolve their sound and expand their catalog.
