The Faint emerged from the Saddle Creek Omaha scene, which most notably produced Conor Oberst (a former member of The Faint). “Agenda Suicide” was their first widely released single, even though it’s on their third album. “Agenda Suicide” and their later singles helped briefly popularize electroclash, a fusion of punk/new wave/post-punk and dance music that was briefly everywhere in the early to mid aughts.

Harboured are an atmospheric sludge metal band from Denver. Atmospheric sludge metal is a spacier, more ambient form of sludge metal that sometimes veers into what is known as post-metal. Continue reading »