The Noisy Tease New Album

The Noisy, a band founded by award-winning poet Sara Mae (they/them), announce signing with Audio Antihero (Frog / Avery Friedman / Magana / CIAO MALZ) with a vampy, silent-movie-esque music video for ‘Twos’, which teases The Secret Ingredient is Even More Meat, an upcoming deluxe edition of their acclaimed debut album.

The dream pop/synth rock band released a vampy, queer, and silent-movie-esque new music video from director Sam Cush, which teases an upcoming deluxe edition of their debut album.

Featuring practical effects and vampire makeup by Philly drag talent, ‘Twos’ channels gothic-glam in the spirit of vintage cinema, dripping with theatrical flair and midnight movie camp. Starring local icon Miss Thing, the video follows the success of ‘Violet Lozenge’, The Noisy’s most recent drag-forward release, which WXPN praised as “glamorous, retro, and proudly queer.”

Front-person Sara Mae Henke (they/them) comments on the upcoming video: “I wrote this song like a pop song but wanted the production to bend towards Mannequin Pussy with sludgy guitars and twinkly keys. The music video literalizes the too much-ness of the story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Grey Gardens meets two dates to the prom.”

The Noisy got its start in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a solo project of award-winning poet Sara Mae Henke. In spring 2023, after evolving from a solo project of Sara Mae to a full band, they released ‘Morricone’ with a Strega Nona meets Clint Eastwood music video, launching a crowdfunding campaign for their debut album, The Secret Ingredient is More Meat. The band sold merch, raffled a cowboy hat, and ran a GoFundMe alongside a month-long tour, raising over $3,000 to bring this debut to life; an album for their queer community.

To celebrate the first anniversary of The Secret Ingredient is More Meat, Audio Antihero will be issuing a deluxe edition entitled The Secret Ingredient is Even More Meat, which will include new and reimagined songs.

Alexei Shishkin's Videogame-Inspired Disco

Self-described “DIY nobody of the internet void”, Alexei Shishkin has announced his eleventh full-length album for release via Rue Defense on September 5.

Following three releases in 2024, and Shishkin’s Play by Ear documentary (featuring Built to Spill, Pictoria Vark, Magic Sword and The Shivas), he opted to do something different with Good Times, creating the album from scratch in four days with Bradford Krieger at Big Nice Studio in Lincoln, Rhode Island. The result is an improvisational, eclectic, surreal, and lyrically disparate escape from reality, offering a unique amalgamation of indie, jazz, americana, and slacker rock.

In the past, Shishkin has referred to himself as “a label’s worst nightmare,” due to his prolific output and total disinterest in playing live, and on Good Times, he leans into being a reclusive, studio-focused, hobbyist musician, and documents all the joys that can come with this freedom.

The lead single, ‘Disco Elysium’, will be released on June 27, followed by the ‘Tiki Taka (2006)’ and ‘Ode To Carl Dennis’ singles on July 25 and August 15 respectively.

Alexei says, “This song was inspired by the game Disco Elysium, which is maybe the greatest video game ever made. You’re a degenerate, amnesiac detective coming off a crazy bender, and you’re trying to solve a murder that happened in a small post-revolution town. The game covers everything from psychology to politics to lost love to life, death, and introspection. It’s honestly one of the most well-written, exciting things I’ve ever experienced. I play through it every two or three years, and I just so happened to be playing it when we recorded this song, so I wrote about it. Shout-out to Robert Kurvitz who wrote most of that game. (Oh, and PS: in that game, there are four distinct sounds that play representing Intellect, Psyche, Physique, and Motor Skills – as an homage, we run through those samples as part of the first four bars of this song).”