Brutus VIII is Jackson Katz's rejection of his soft indie-rock band roots into no wave experimentation. Brutus VIII was started in 2013 as a solo project and after a few iterations has remained, for the most part, solo. With jarring and oftentimes abrasive live performances, Katz forces audiences to confront the expectations of a performer. The project is an exploration into the hyper masculine ideal, painting a picture of how ridiculous machismo-ism is. Brutus VIII personifies fear being the root of anger. In its most distilled form, Brutus VIII is a reflection of how society both stokes the flames of angry chauvinism and uses escapism to stave off the feelings of being trapped in a cycle of helplessness.
Cryogeyser is making dreamy, dark, vocal-forward music dealing with the themes of truth, transcendence, and longing. They are a three-piece rock band out of Los Angeles, fronted and formed by Shawn Marom on guitar and vox in early 2018. Since then, the band has recorded three albums, and has welcomed new bass player Will Kraus and drummer Nich Santana.
Cryogeyser started off in a really natural way, Hunter Martinez and Shawn Marom new friends, and eventually roommates, were both dealing with pretty enormous changes at the same time. A time of a lot of loss, and distance from people and even parts of themselves that they were really comfortable with. Drummer and producer, Jeremy McLennan had just played a show Shawn booked and they planned to jam one day. Later that year, Glitch was recorded in Jeremy McLennan’s living room.
Cryogeyer’s most recent release, Love is Land, produced by Stella Mozgawa earlier in 2020, is part of a double-album, "Love is Land/ timetetheredtogether" with the second half produced by Jack Shirley, set to release this fall.
†††DOVE ARMITAGE IS THE SOLO PROJECT OF LA BASED MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST QUINCY LARSEN. DOVE ARMITAGE USES A WIDE RANGE OF MOODS AND EMOTIONS TO EMBODY A GENRE BENDING SOUND. UNABASHEDLY LOUD, MYSTIC, GENTLE, AND SOFT, DOVE LIVES AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF NOSTALGIC DARK WAVE, ETHEREAL AMBIENT, AND HARSH NOISE. LET DOVE BE YOUR MOM†††
