Downward

Hunter cites influences like Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, and says, ”Each song is evocative of its own era, from the 1950s-1980s, but I still think they all sound like a 25 year old wrote them.”

The band's also currently on a West Coast tour with Prize Horse.

This week's playlist includes new music by The Afghan Whigs, Porridge Radio, Superchunk ft. Sharon Van Etten, Elf Power, Gang of Youths, Daniel Rossen, and more.

Fans of anything from Hum to Duster to The Microphones to Radiohead's guitar songs, take note.

This week's playlist includes new music by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Swami John Reis, The Linda Lindas, Erin Rae ft. Kevin Morby, Caroline Spence ft. Matt Berninger, Kamasi Washington, and more

The Tulsa, Oklahoma band are named after Hum's 'Downward Is Heavenward,' and their earlier material sounded a lot like their nameshake, but this is something different, more like a cross between The Microphones and Duster...

Downward (who are named after Hum and very much influenced by them) are releasing a two-song 7” on New Morality Zine next week. Here's one of the songs...

Exclusive/special releases for today's Bandcamp fundraiser include Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Arab Strap, The Hold Steady, Straylight Run, Sacred Bones' Black Sabbath tribute LP, !!!, The Helio Sequence, Cloud Nothings, Mogwai, and much more....