If It's Too Loud...

Photo via Facebook Brooklyn's Tetchy are one of my personal favorite musical discoveries of 2024, so I'm thrilled that they have a new single out. "Mommy" was a stand out song at their show at Ralph's last month, and the recorded version is somehow even more intense. Tetchy songs tend to either be very, very quiet or very, very loud, and "Mommy" is far on the loud side of the spectrum. Clocking in at ninety-two seconds, it's a fast and furious screamy punk song. Singer Maggie Denning sounds amazing throughout the song, whether she's crooning more softly or in a hardcore shout. This one falls somewhere in the worlds between punk, hardcore, metal, and art rock. And we adore it. In a Facebook post, Tetchy say of their new single: "she is a sapphic fantasy rager.. a queer punk bop who wants to be one for the ages but who got dreamt up in like, 10 minutes flat. she is funny and she is raw and she is free and i love her for that." You can lis...

Outdoor shows are great, but they do have their issues, mainly weather. I had been planning on seeing Gut Health, Tetchy, and PV on the patio at Ralph's in Worcester Tuesday night, but as I was getting set to leave, there was a downpour at my house. I kept checking weather reports for Worcester, which kept saying there was a roughly fifty percent chance of rain. I decided to risk it, and luckily it all worked out. PV opened up the evening's music, and I'm not really quite sure how to explain them. Every time I thought I knew what they were as a band, they changed it up completely. It started off as pure art rock noise, with a violin being used as a noise instrument. From there, they morphed into an instrumental quartet. It was a bit more straightforward rock, but still with an art/noise sound. Then, they started adding some vocals. It was still rock based, but maybe now with a little more punk thrown in. PV are the type of band music writers are going to hate because they d...