Chumped

A look back on 30 emo, post-hardcore, and emo-adjacent albums from 2014, including The Hotelier, Modern Baseball, Pianos Become the Teeth, Cayetana, The Menzingers, La Dispute, and more.

Dirty Shrines take on ’70s heartland rock and power pop through a modern punk lens.

This week on our livestream show on Vans Channel 66, we’ll be chatting with Anika Pyle (Chumped, Katie Ellen, etc) and she’ll be playing an acoustic set live on the show!

Anika Pyle (of Chumped, Katie Ellen, and more) incorporates spoken word, electronics, folk music and more into her first proper solo album, which was inspired by the death of her father and is her most personal and direct work yet.

This week’s Notable Releases include rising UK art rockers Squid, hip hop breakthroughs from EarthGang and IDK, the debut EP from indie-punk supertrio Sheena Anika & Augusta, and more.

Philly indie punks Cayetana just parted ways, having played their final few shows over the weekend, but the band’s Augusta Koch has a new project on the horizon with Anika Pyle (of Katie Ellen and Chumped) and Sheena Ozella (of Lemuria)

Brush is a new-ish band featuring members of Chumped, Katie Ellen, and Adult Dude, and they just released their first single as a full four-piece band.

The lead single is a new recording of “Lucy Stone,” which appeared on Anika Pyle & co’s first demo.

It’s basically picking up right where Chumped left off, but these songs are sadder than Chumped’s usually were. They’re both breakup songs…

We recently mentioned that former Chumped guitarist Drew Johnson teamed up with Elway members Brian Van Proyen and Tim Browne, and drummer Miles Thacker, to form the band Your Loss, and that their debut album Midlife Crisis Tropical Vacation will be out this Friday (5/6) via Anchorless Records (pre-order). We’re now premiering a full stream of the album…