Lost Jon is honestly the best thing I’ve heard from any of the blogs I wrote for in a long time. This is exactly the kind of music I like. He’s only got two songs on his BandCamp, and it looks like their Facebook page hasn’t been up for very long either, maybe only a few hours. It’s listed under Lost Jon And The Ghosts.
Signals Midwest, from Cleveland, calls themselves a “punk/indie/something” band. They’ll play in your kitchen, and they’re on Spotify. I really like the cover of their album “Latitudes and Longitudes”. It’s a really nice, soft picture of a wooden toy airplane! Pop punk!
Off their upcoming third record Attack on Memory, here's the Cleveland garage rock trio Cloud Nothings with a real screamer of a track.
Cloud Nothings, "No Sentiment" by The FADER
Read more about Cloud Nothings - 'No Sentiment'
Glitchy layers of gorgeous melodies erupt over squealing beats. Noise crashes into itself to joyfully straddle that line between euphony and caucophony. Ultimately: glistening chaos.
Read more about Ennet House - 'A Tree City USA' 
Do you love fuzz pedals? Do you love when all the instruments distort and the vocals meander over the top of the mix? I love it, and Herzog delivers. The Beginning of “Silence” from their 2010 album Search takes off with an angry stadium announcer and then plunges into the song with the fuzziest guitar tone you could imagine. Everything joins in, equally as crunchy, and then the vocals float in, eventually complete with equally soaring harmonies.
The front page of The Lighthouse and the Whaler’s website looks like a commercial for Gap. It’s too hard to figure out where to hear their music, but once you find it, what a treat it is! They’re pretty proud that their name came from Moby Dick.
I’ll have to admit, sometimes I need a fix of constantly loud, really obnoxious, thrash metal. Throw in some half-time southern breakdowns, and I’ll feel like I’m back in the blissful days of high school shows when I didn’t know anything else existed. In high school, I probably would’ve loved Ichabod Crane. Whatever stage of your musical experience you find yourself in, listen to this band. Laugh at how appropriate it is that all the pictures in their Facebook banner are mostly black, read about their creative title, or turn up your speakers and indulge.
If trees could talk, what would they say? Would we be able to understand them? Would they even use words? Maybe they would make thunderously roaring instrumental rock. Maybe If These Trees Could Talk chose their name as a comparison of the wordless expressionism of an instrumental band to the life of trees. Maybe they are hardcore environmentalists concerned about the defenseless nature of trees. Maybe it has nothing to do with trees in any way.
I see tapes springing up all over the musical quadrants of the internet. So many new artists are returning to the cassette as a distribution method. It makes sense; if you don't quite have the resources to order a vinyl pressing, you might as well go for the cheaper analog route. No one likes CDs anymore. They're the abandoned middle child of physical media.
One of many new DIY cassette labels, Tolmie Terrapin Press is based out of Cleveland and puts out some raw, weird stuff. Off of Rubella's new EP Dragger, here's the frenetic synth-sludge jam 'Bridge'. The whole tape is seriously awesome, so be sure to hop on over and give it a listen--or pick it up on cassette for five bucks.
Read more about Rubella - 'Bridge' 
The new record from Mr. Gnome might already have crept its way onto my top 10 of '11 list. Their songcraft is impeccably bombastic and entirely fresh. Take a listen to "House of Circles" off of Madness in Miniature (out now on Bandcamp).
Read more about Mr. Gnome - 'House of Circles'