Rumbles & Rants
New music, and a hiatus for Ardmore's Low Level Devils
This is a quick installment of rumbles and rants to call your attention to a plethora of new music coming down the track, and one unfortunate bit of news regarding Ardmore’s Low Level Devils.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Stephen White, Josh Randell and Mark Pickering, collectively known as Low Level Devils, are presently on hiatus as bassist Josh Randell has announced a move from Ardmore, where the band is based, to Oklahoma City.
TheFUSE had just discovered LLD and featured their raw-but-catchy single No Innocence back in Red River Playlist No 4. Now, the group’s future seems in flux.
White and Randell have each put out messages on social media, but Randell tells TheFUSE it’s simply logistics and distance.
“It's just indefinite at this point,” Randell said. “We have logistical problems that we'll need to overcome before we can start playing again.’ When asked if there was any bad blood, he replied “NO. Nothing bad at all! I love Mark and Stephen as much as always. They are good people and great musicians.”
New Music
Mind Funeral, a new Doom project featuring Garry Walden and Peter Skulski of Ladybird has a new single forthcoming. We got an advance listen to an unmixed version of their single, “Clockwork,” a Sabbath-esque stomp, droptuned to C#, just like Sabbath’s first album, and it is sonic sorcery. This group also features Tyler Farmer on lead guitar and Ryan Meek on drums, and it is going to be exciting to hear the finished work from this talented lineup. Mind Funeral has a very bright future ahead, and Clockwork is coming soon.
The capstone for what has been a very busy year for Blank Labels is a new single in the New Year. Bryson Lawrence, Mike Hardison, Angel Perez and Mackey Divine have been playing and releasing streaming music for the entire year, wowing us in the live setting and in our earbuds, too. Blank Labels has another single on the way to cap 2024, although it might be early in the New Year before we get to hear it. When asked if the single would make it in time for our end of the year Red River Playlist, Hardison said, ”Ain’t gonna happen!”
That leads us to Red River Playlist No. 9, which is coming soon. Thanks to a fabulous response to our query on our Facebook page, we have a streaming queue flush with amazing Texoma artists we hadn’t heard before. And… watch for a Red River Playlist specifically for Texoma EDM and Hip-Hop artists coming soon.
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