Dribbler – Biglife!
Genre: Punk, Grunge, Garage Rock
Dribbler create loud, fast, pummeling garage-rock on their single Biglife!
Somebody must be still buying those Nirvana records and merch, otherwise, the kid that appeared naked on the cover of Nevermind wouldn’t go to the trouble of suing the surviving members decades later.
Kurt Cobain could’ve easily worked on marketing. Here was the one person who saw a way for guitar music to progress through the wasteland of early 90s pop. Cobain showed that loud, fast, aggressive guitar bands could make a dent in the charts provided that the songs had enough allure to them. Guitar rock never dies.
Dribbler’s single Biglife! further proves this. This grunge explosion, garage-rock with the breaks off. The guitar sounds like someone fiddled with the amplifier. The vocals sound like they’re not even amplified. Dribbler are a garage-rock band that makes good time music for bad times.
Jukka Westhues – Can’t Go Back
Gene: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: The Lemonheads
Jukka Westhues focuses on the immediacy of punk-rock songwriting on the new single Can’t Go Back.
Any course on writing will tell you that it’s important to go in with a plan. Whether you’re writing the script for an ad about toothpaste, or a future prize-winning novel, the experts always tell novices that they need to have a roadmap.
But, what is bound to happen if you don’t? You’re likely to get lost, of course. When it comes to rock songwriting, it’s often worth taking the gamble. The best rock sounds sound as if they arrived in a burst of beautiful inspiration. The worst-hit singles, however, sound as if someone considered their every move to enhance the impact of the tune.
Jukka Westhues’ Can’t Go Back feels like a song written on the spot. It sounds like a sound that couldn’t have existed any other way. Jukka Westhues is able to make use of Evan Dando’s melodic punky approach and create something simple, immediate, and with plenty of heart.
