In her songs and stagecraft you’ll see and hear everything from PJ Harvey’s raw and ragged stomp to the crazed carnival energy of Tom Waits and eviscerating poetics of Patti Smith. Still only 20 years old, the Mysterines’ imposing frontwoman melds together more than her lifetime’s worth of experiences with the kind of deep, impassioned vocal you won’t forget in a hurry. When it happened to Lia Metcalfe, she wisely decided to do the latter. 1) Run off crying and forever commit to a quiet life or 2) Decide to be just like the big tall man who gets a kick out of scaring little kids. When it comes to pivotal life moments, having the mighty Nick Cave snatch a balloon out of your hands when you’re seven years old before smirkingly stomping on it is going to make you do one of two things. The song is a take on the smoking guns of American politics, big pharma, the oil industries and big corporations, as well as the collective feeling of defeat experienced by a majority of Americans at the time.” Their new single ”Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em” was tracked and mixed by Jakob Mooney and mastered by Mazen Murrat at Katara Studios. When speaking about the bands newest single release, Lucas Esterline, the bands vocalist states, “We wrote ’Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em’ during the midst of the pandemic. The album delivers songs of angst, awareness and feelings of despair, along with rhythmic and melodic intent, notable hooks and powerful vocals. They narrowed it down to 8 of their favorites for an upcoming release in the Spring of 2022. During the major lock-downs across the world, the band wrote 40+ songs. With the world facing uncertainty regarding the global outbreak, the newly formed group did not sit idly by, but instead got straight to work. That’s what we want people to take away from this.”ĪEIR Is an Alternative Rock band from Columbus, Ohio, formed from band members of The Turbos, Coya Hill and Personal Public. “While these songs may seem dark, it helps to connect with someone going through the same things. “Growing up, music was always there for us during our hardest times,” concludes Harrison. We sat down as a group and decided to take the next step to actually become your new favorite band.” “We hope these choruses get stuck in everyone’s heads. “We feel like there’s a little bit of something for everyone on this record,” concludes Boz. And, cage unlocked, the songs which comprise debut EP Showmetherealyou burst forth – Moodring was born. A driving slab of rhythm guitars and atmospheric leads topped by moody, ethereal vocals, the song freed the dragon Hunter had been chasing. Moodring’s Eureka moment came with ‘Gasoline’. Once we’d tapped the right vein, the sound just started to gush from us.” But when we are writing music for Moodring, we feel a different level of focus. “We were searching for the sound in our heads,” says Hunter. “In modern life, we all struggle to stop, to be still I know that there are few things that can hold my attention for very long. Yet, despite all this musical promiscuity, it wasn’t until May of 2019 that they finally found the vehicle that could carry forth their most authentic creative selves. That’s what we aspire to with our band, to create songs that can transcend any scene.”īetween them, the members of Moodring – Young, guitarist Sean Dolich, drummer Lindy Harter and bassist Kalan Blehm – have a musical rap sheet longer than any of them care to recall. “I grew up on the alternative bands of the 1990s,” says frontman Hunter Young “No matter what new interests might come and go, I am forever drawn back to the classic albums of that era they feel larger than life, not bound to a fad or trend – timeless. Forged in a furnace of experience, experimentation and existential crisis, Moodring is an entity orbiting a lone, core ambition: to create music with no ceiling.