Small Million You have overshared with a stranger in a bar bathroom; your back is killing you because of everything you haven’t said; you’ve overwatered your houseplants again. Small Million is here for you.
On tour supporting their new album Passenger, out this fall on Tender Loving Empire Records, Portland-based indie pop band Small Million flows from the collaboration of longtime creative partners Ryan Linder and Malachi Graham. The band welds deeply affecting sonic production to sharp lyrics about intuition and inhibition, losing control and ending up in unexpected places, bodies hurt and bodies joyful. Linder and Graham have been writing as a duo for a decade, but for their newest chapter they've expanded the band, enlisting Ben Tyler (Small Skies) on drums and Kale Chesney (Lo Pony) on bass and harmonies. Their first full-length release since 2018's Young Fools, Passenger expands the band’s sound from their synth pop origins to encompass richer textures, raw indie rock energy, folk inspired harmonies, propulsive drums, and shoegaze fuzz. The effect is both intimate and epic, delicate and fierce. Listen to it to ache, dance to it to heal.
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Gold Casio Gold Casio is set to entrance populations through space-age disco and electrifying visuals that leave their listeners moving their hips and singing melodies. The New-York-based crew harnesses irresistible indie-dance melodies and high-energy performances to seduce listeners into obeying the dark forces of alien disco. Venues, mass gatherings and unsuspecting listeners should consider themselves warned.
The group’s advanced sounds blend indietronic dance rhythms and pulsing psychedelic pop, pulling from a broad spectrum of influences ranging from 80’s art pop, nu disco, electro funk and more. With beats and rhythms that ooze Daft Punk or Justice, paired with vocals that sound like a Blondie-meets-Talking Heads super group, listeners are guaranteed to get these infectious melodies stuck in their heads.
First materializing in Portland, Or, the dimension-hopping lifeforms have dominated underground stages, festivals and clandestine launch sites, causing spontaneous and uncontrollable dancing across the nation. Since their 2023 album, Disco Hits Radio (or, The Ecstacy of Ego Death), the group has been busy in the lab, concocting their next set of irresistible, undeniable hooks and are now poised to take over headphones and dance floors across the country.
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Ruby Grove Boston-based band Ruby Grove (2022- current) is an indie alternative musical project rooted in trip-hop and neo-soul grooves, informed by lofi hip-hop, electronica, rock, and world music. Ruby Grove’s core driving force is to soothe anxious hearts and minds during the post-pandemic era, create an alternatively funky, soulful, and mystical atmosphere, and aim for “the formation of new genres through multi-genre synthesis madness”. Lead singer and keyboardist Melissa Nilles brings an extensive musical background to Ruby Grove from years of fronting indie bands in New York, California, Japan, and Massachusetts (including Boston’s notable art/alternative rock project Miele). Nilles’s vocal style was described by the Boston Survival Guide as “travelling effortlessly through many moods…forceful and determined, melancholy and dreamy, exotic and magical”. Nilles recruited bassist and backup vocalist Cedric Lamour from previous mutual project Miele, and the two met drummer Sage Gibbons (Funky Toona).
