EASY BRUISERWhat started as a three member cover band, styling themselves as Free Candy at an auspicious outdoor Halloween show in 2020, eventually bloomed into the powerful quartet you know and love today. Making real fun tunes in Portland, OR since the Spring of 2021, Abby, Nat, Mel, and Frankie are on the brink of releasing Easy Bruiser’s second album: Volume II. As genre agnostic as any band you’ve ever heard, Easy Bruiser is as much a band as it is a lifestyle.
JEWELRY EXCHANGE
Jewelry Exchange is a Portland, Oregon based band probably describable as post-punk. They’re better described as a heady mix of noise rock, krautrock, and dance punk, with musical goals of immediacy and intentionality in equal measure. Especially known for their live shows, you can expect movement, sweat, and their singer bopping in and out of the crowd. The boys count on influences like CAN, Slint, Portishead. You could also compare them to contemporaries like Protomartyr, Shame and Ought.
For their sophomore record “Bedazzled’, they’re laser focused on the improbable relationship between chaos and groove. Angular guitar meets syncopated dancefloor bass; odd-time signatures meet sixteenth-note hi-hats. Lyrically, it’s a breakup album. The juxtapositions are the point.
MR. BOY
Mr. Boy is a three-piece band from Portland, Oregon. In the words of a very kind mans on instagram, “My favorite variety of weird and unpredictable and fun… like landing cartwheels over and over and then finally putting up both middle fingers and announcing ‘yeah, AND I did all that on mushrooms!’” Thanks David!
