Getting to Know: Worry Club, Bodysnatcher, and Hiatus Kaiyote

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Chicago-based collective, Worry Club isn’t your average bedroom pop band. Chase Walsh is the brains behind the music, playing every instrument, writing every lyric, and singing every line. He’s in charge of creating a sound to call their own: a somewhat sentimental, 90s-tinged, slacker rhythm and tone with somber guitar and understated vocals. Worry Club takes a unique approach to bedroom pop, incorporating aspects of midwest emo with vulnerable lyricism. Recently, they caught the attention of Billie Eilish after a recent addition to the Spotify playlist, Lorem. Worry Club is set to hit the road this Spring in support of Grayscale on their North American tour. 

Watch: Live performance of “Death Blow“

Sounds Like: Her’s, Hot Flash Heat Wave, Vacations

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Listen: Spotify, Apple Music

Gear: Ernie Ball Regular Slinky electric guitar strings and Regular Slinky Bass strings.

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Relentlessly brutal and epically aggressive is Bodysnatcher. This heavy band focuses on bringing the core back to Death-Core, with rhythmic drops that are both furious and dark in nature. You feel the tension between blast beats and breakdowns and the band’s commitment to an authentic approach to the genre, you feel the struggle from which the band was born in between every hit and downstroke, with supporting tour spots with Chelsea Grinn, Carnifex, and Hatebreed, this band has tons of fight and the will power to survive any obstacle. Check out one Bodysnatcher, latest music video titled “Value Through Suffering” below, and check out a show near you as they hit the road in 2023.

Watch: Official music video for “Value Through Suffering“

Sounds Like: Traitors, Chelsea Grinn, Boundaries

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Listen: Spotify, Apple Music

Gear: Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom Slinky and Regular Slinky 7-string electric guitar strings and Power Slinky 5-String bass strings.

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It’s pretty hard to pinpoint the Melbourne-based, worldwide-beloved, genre-fluid collective, Hiatus Kaiyote. Part jazz, soul, R&B, funk, and pop, Nai Palm (guitar, vox), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys), and Perrin Moss (drums) debuted in 2012 with LP Tawk Tomahawk, making fans of Erykah Badu, Questlove, and Prince, and embraced by tastemakers like Gilles Peterson and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Their first R&B Grammy nomination, for “Nakamarra,” was followed by another for “Breathing Underwater,” from their second LP, 2015’s Choose Your Weapon. They’ve been sampled on songs by The Carters (Beyonce + Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson.Paak, Chance The Rapper, and Drake, with whom Nai Palm collaborated on his Scorpion album.
With a new record out titled Mood Valiant, the band really dug into expanding their orchestrations, grooves, and multi-cultural inspirations, all while laced with Nai Palm’s unmistakable voice and guitar playing and Paul Bender’s constant bass grooves and constant tempo and time signature switches.

Watch: The official music video for “Nakamara”

Sounds Like: Erykah Badu, Questlove, Thundercat

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Listen: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Bandcamp

Gear: Ernie Ball Super Slinky and Regular Slinky electric guitar strings, Long Scale Slinky Bass and Regular Slinky Flatwound bass strings, and an Ernie Ball Music Man – Bongo 6 bass.