
Tonight at Locals Only come celebrate local Indianapolis labels and talent! Complimentary food and drink throughout the night?! Holy moly, can't pass up free eats and drinks! Oh yeah? Great music too? Sold. Arrah & The Ferns - Skylark Liz Janes - Proposition Resting Rooster - John Merrick Everthus The Deadbeats - Trevor Dust The Bedsheets [...]

Indiana duo Grampall Jookabox play folk music filtered through the eyes, hearts and mouths of junkyard soul, stream of conciousness lyricism and cut and paste aesthetics. For every poignant note the group touches on, they're equally ready to steamroll it with an abstract tangent. Scientific Cricket packs together into one album a legacy of dark rooted songwriting and modern experimental bents; treading the roads that Animal Collective, Beck and Leadbelly cut down before them and swerving between them with equal fervor. Decidedly lo-fi, and decisively rustic the album is a product of modern times emulating an impulse of [...]

Jooka. Rhymes with : hookah, Jonah, karma, and claustra. Pay close attention to the first and last . Music is always pushing a status quo: either to maintain it, redefine it, or trample it under bare calloused feet. Usually that's not a conscious effort on the artist's behalf, but for me, well, it's a clever little game I always play on a second or third listen through. Sometimes this game gets confusing, but that's always the kind of trip-up that makes the game amusing. There's always a push-and-shove balance going [...]