Another awesome musical surprise, alternative indie rock with some very cool sonic elements going on. Plus they released 4 volumes, 2 songs each and they all have amazing artwork.
Indie
Listen – Street Hassle – Lion’s Share
Street Hassle is a retro rock punk Minneapolis 80’s sound hustle. Here is a track off their album Oceans of Dumb.
Interview – Robat
Photo by Kassidy Renee Paige
By Rich Horton
You have to like surprises, and when I got a first listen of Robat, I was pleasantly blown away. I usually shy away from things tagged as emo, but this band is wonderful. Complex layers of guitar with intertwined vocals that just grab your soul a bit.
I had to get something up about this band, I want people to give them a listen. It will be well worth your time.
RIFT: How did you come up with the name of the band?
ROBAT: Robat has been playing together for a few years now but before we called ourselves Robat we went by “Prints”. It was mostly a joke, but considering we hail from Minneapolis and we were tired of explaining the joke to people, we decided to come up with something a bit more self-explanatory. Don’t know that we totally pulled that off with Robat, which we came up with while sitting at a patio. We were talking about robots and bat flew overhead. We have a natural gift for puns and word play. We came up with “Robat” and it just kind of stuck.
Listen – Hot Date – His
Hot Date gets right to the point with their new 3 song EP, entitled Three Sides To The Story. Here is info on the release show – http://riftmagazine.com/event/general-b-the-wiz-hot-date-ep-release/
Listen – Dives – Got It Good
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Show 1/22 at The Fine Line – http://riftmagazine.com/event/mark-andrew-band-dives-candid-kid-autumn-kid-fine-line-music-cafe/
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