Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, ohnomoon, Bronze Float

It's been over three years since Oscillate Wisely, the debut album from Mike Adams At His Honest Weight. A lot has happened to all of us since then, but it was a particularly action-packed time for ol' Mike. His newborn son requiring emergency heart surgeries immediately after birth (doing fine now!), his former rock band of nearly 10 years calling it quits, and plenty of other heavy things have helped shape the follow-up, Best of Boiler Room Classics, into one of the most believably moving albums to come around in a long time.

But forget about all that stuff for a minute because we need to talk about how great these SONGS are! And these are real songs, daddy! Verses, choruses, hooks, bridges, you know, well-written timeless songs that at least some of us will be listening to 50 years from now. The same mixing/mastering team of Adam Jessup & Eric Day have returned and have really taken their time to make this album sound like exactly one million bucks. The thoughtful, hard work that went into this record has resulted in something truly special, like a Midwestern Tusk made by fun, lovable people who actually get along really well.

Best of Boiler Room Classics has the subtle, earnest warmth of an album like the Clientele's Strange Geometry but with the arena-ready grandeur of ELO's Out Of The Blue. While there is an unforgettable instant catchiness to these songs, there is a depth, both lyrically and musically, that makes repeated listens a delight.

While this is not a country album by any means, songs like "Count On It" and "Don't Want It, Don't Get It" find Mike's comforting words gripping your heart like an old Roger Miller ballad. Speaking of "Count On It", just wait until those actual strings kick in at 2:27! It'll do something to you!

What if the GBV albums on TVT had been produced by Cowboy Jack Clement? What if The Wonders songs in That Thing You Do were actually performed by The Pernice Brothers? What if Dee Dee Ramone wrote "Late For The Sky" instead of Jackson Browne? What if Todd Rundgren engineered a Cass McCombs record? Find out on April 29, 2014 at your local record store!


Unintentionally or not, the name "ohnomoon" sounds otherworldly, and their music follows suit. The NYC quartet has been described as playing "distorted sleep rock" and "hooky, noisy, shoegaze pop", and drawn comparisons to the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Warpaint and The xx.

"I can explore, live in places in a song that would be hard for me to talk about, which I might not have any interest in dissecting in conversation," Kat Lee remarks on the writing process. "I always want to create a mood or head space that feels familiar and honest, so I hope whatever resounds most with the listener is intuitive, like the feeling you can get from a shared look or touch."

ohnomoon's debut EP, VVV, (released March 10, 2015) is a proper introduction to the band's subconscious sound, which Consequence of Sound says "crosses the line between dreamy shoegaze and colorful indie. As fuzzy washes of guitar swirl about, dashes of hues both bright and dark burst forth in complicated rhythms, and singer Kat Lee's airy vocals never let your head hang low for too long."


The music project of local artist David Brant, Bronze Float is a soft pop band with an eye on newer experimental music and older folk music. The songs are backed by an underwater finger-picked electric haze, but have also been called rhythmic and soothing in the vain of Arthur Russell. R.C. Legacy is the record label of the band.