Chimes, Gingerlys, PSYCHIC SELVES

Chimes is a psychedelic shoegaze band that brides the gap between Bloomfield, NJ and Brooklyn, NY. Since their humble beginnings in a NJ basement, Jesse Benicaso (guitar/vox), Linda Chen (guitar/vox), Winston Scarlett (bass) & Sarah Peterson (drums) have evolved from their dream pop roots to harness a more raw punk sound that captures the slack skating-Pokemon playing youth of today. After a busy summer of local Brooklyn gigs, touring around the east coast and playing & their own bassist, Win, curating Slackfest, Chimes is ready to release their first single, Total Sunflower, unveiling their new sound to the psychedelic stoner masses.

Chimes has played all over NY and NJ at venues including Baby's Alright, Glasslands, and The Silent Barn, with Brooklyn bands such as Sunflower Bean, Haybaby, Lost Boy?, and many more.


Guitarist Matt Richards began sharing acoustic demos of his strummy pop songs to his fellow bandmates and the group began formulating Matt's songs together in his NY basement. Vocalist and keyboardist Maria Garnica brought life to the rough demos with her melody laden hooks and dreamy vocals. Colin O'Neill provided vibrant guitar riffs and Kevin Doxsey was behind the kit and on bass and drummer Brian Alvarez joined later that summer. After self-releasing the songs as digital singles, the band signed to Shelflife Records and will be releasing the material on their debut 7" Jumprope.


Psychic Selves are a punk band from Brooklyn.

Pepto G (drums + vox)
David Taveras (guitar)
Jon Rocha (bass)