In a tiny house on the South Side of Austin, in a bedroom barely enough to hold them all, Kidlat Punch are working on new songs. Things are going great, and the band is wading through the new material with ease.
When guitarist Julio Correa and drum sampler Connor Campbell began collaborating musically, they quickly realized they needed more musicians to flesh out their project. In the spring of 2015, they recruited “synthesizer masterminds” Aaron Chavez and Mitchell Webb, and with the ensuing combination of dance-pop and retro electronic music, R.C. CAT was born.
For a pop-punk band from Richmond, Virginia, Safety Word Orange had all they wanted. They had played Vans Warped Tour and even had a song featured on MTV. But two of the members, James Mason and Jackson Wise, wanted to make something that would last, and their dreams culminated in The Vantage.
Austin rockers Thieves are breaking all the rules. Whether they’re redrawing the boundaries of pop punk, or crawling across abandoned train tracks on government property in the dead of night while touring through Alabama, it’s clear that Thieves is well-positioned to steal the hearts and minds of everyone they encounter in 2015 and beyond.
