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New Tune From Hot Joy

February 20, 2024 RayRay Leave a comment

Today has been an absolute wild one for new music with a ton of heavy hitters in the indie world dropping new music. While we let some of the big boys post those well known names, we’ll try to highlight more of an up and comer with this new song “Fingers on my Side” from St. Louis based outfit Hot Joy. As a sucker for mid to late 90s alt-rock with a slacker theme (think Weezer, Pavement, etc.), this one was an immediate hit for me. Wonderful tune from a band you are sure to be hearing more about soon.

This track is part of Hot Joy’s debut EP entitled Small Favor which is due out on April 19th.

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One More From Shady Bug

June 27, 2023 RayRay Leave a comment

We in the ATH offices have a few favorites for album of the season and Shady Bug’s upcoming joint What’s the Use? is surely in contention. Already we’ve shared the stunner, “Zero Expectations,” and now the band are treating us to another preview with this jam “Favor.” Without offering too much of an opinion or comparisons, I’ll just say that if you haven’t check out this band and their new material yet, well what are you even doing. Get on it.

Shady Bug will release What’s the Use? on June 30th via Exploding in Sound.

<a href="https://explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/whats-the-use">What’s The Use? by Shady Bug</a>

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SXSW Interviews: Shady Bug

March 12, 2019 RayRay Leave a comment

Many of you are likely out and about today hitting up SXSW shows, though some of you might not quite be done with work. For those of you still stuck at your day job, I have another interview for you from St. Louis based group Shady Bug. Crazy enough, I just featured them on my Top 6 to watch post so of course I was excited to receive our interview questions back from them. Hit the jump to see the responses.

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