Artist Spotlight: Lil Huffy

Harrisonburg’s Lil Huffy are getting in on that grand tradition of physical music with the release of their recent 6-track, Old Volvo, on tape. Volvo, which I’ve written about here before, is an ambitious and rewarding lo-fi noise-pop kind of exercise, but startlingly sober when compared to the overwrought, overthought, overly breathy shoegaze redux that’s in vogue at the moment. The band have a knack for layering, and their songwriting hints at serious potential for a kinetic live show. And fancy that, we're in luck!

Artist of the Day: Lil Huffy

In the midst of the slowly maturing Internet Age, we as music fans can sometimes get tricked into assuming a market of perfect information. Thanks to the vast infinity of the social network, if a band is good, they get noticed, then they get big. Right? It's nice to think that way, if only because the idea of truly great band slipping through the cracks is disconcerting. How many Rock masterpieces could we have missed because nobody heard them? I urge you, reader, not to be complacent, because the media machine is massive, and, like any bureaucracy (which it is), inefficient.