New Videos from Native Sun and Big Bliss

Native Sun and Big Bliss both have shows at Baby's All Right later this week.

Check These Out

I'd originally intended to use Check This Out as my main space for posting one-off songs and videos that I wanted you to, well, check out. Just a spot where I could leave stuff without boring you with my bloviating. But, sometimes, I can't resist bloviating about stuff, especially when it comes from bands I really really like.

So here are two new vids you should check out.

Native Sun, "Palindrome"

Towards the end of 2017, I came across the debut EP from Brooklyn's Native Sun, Songs Born From Love and Hate. The five-song set combines influences like The Rolling Stones, glam, and psychedelia as it crunches and swaggers along. As much as I enjoyed the EP, Native Sun truly blew me away when I saw them live at the Little Dickman Records / PaperCup Music holiday party in December.

Native Sun just released a video for ...Love and Hate track "Palindrome." The song rolls up all the EP's influences into a three-minute burst. The video is a collage of old-timey and / or seemingly random images interspersed with short glimpses of Native Sun's incendiary live show.



Native Sun play a late show at Baby's All Right this Thursday, February 1st, as part of an amazing bill with Stuyedeyed and a DJ set from The Nude Party.

Songs Born From Love and Hate is out now on PaperCup Music.

Big Bliss, "Contact"

Big Bliss know how to do post-punk. The chimey guitars, prominent bass lines, and cool detachment are all there for anyone (like me) who lives for this stuff. The band's 2016 Keep Near EP was one of my favorites of that year, and it produced a single and video in "High Ideal" that marked Big Bliss for me as a band that should be huge already.

Big Bliss are back with a new single and video, "Contact." Directed by Micah Weisberg & Bill Dvorak, "Contact" is a burst of color that contrasts singer / guitarist Tim Race's pleas for contact with images of the band being separated from the viewer by that fourth wall. Big Bliss know how to do videos, too.



Big Bliss will release "Contact" along with another single, "Override," via Exit Stencil Recordings on Friday, February 2nd.

Oh My Rockness named Big Bliss NYC's Hardest Working Band of 2017. The site is hosting a show on Friday, February 2nd, featuring Big Bliss along with other Hardest Working Bands Fruit & Flowers, Darkwing, Sic Tic, Grim Streaker, and THICK at Baby's All Right. You can pick up "Contact" 7-inches at that show.

You may as well bring a sleeping bag and just stay at Baby's for both nights. Both bills are -- as the kids like to say -- sick.