Unbelievably loud yet relentlessly beautiful, THE LIFE & TIMES are difficult to classify in any genre other than "solid" and their moody, spacey and sonically overwhelming sound is even more grandiose live. Last month LIFE & TIMES celebrated the release of their newest full-length, No One Loves You Like I Do through Slimstyle Records. Condensing beautifully lush, over-the-top arrangements into a tight collection of songs, the effort overflows with immediacy and urgency, building on Pitchfork’s praise of the band creating “a wall of sound that moves in and evaporates like fog, leaving only keyboards and moogs behind.” SWEET COBRA release albums so heavy and epic that Alternative Press has asked, "Why aren't these guys huge again?" They're huge to us, AP, they're huge to us. Last year’s release, Mercy, on Black Market Activities saw them up the plodding, ominous riffs and caveman vocals, bringing the new LP to a whole new level of ass-kickery. Quickly becoming one of our favorite local acts, punishing trio ELECTRIC HAWK prove you don't need a lot of people on stage to create a sonic apocalypse or a singer to make your tunes as catchy as the plague. (Alternative Press) (AV Club)