Ceylon Sailor turns scruffy indie roots into a sun-drenched, harmony-stacked anthem, where lo-fi heart meets big-sky hooks.
With a sound steeped in ’90s alt-rock, grunge, and shoegaze, MX Lonely’s new album, All Monsters, could be the release that pushes Julia’s War Records into a wider spotlight. In this conversation, Rae Haas and Jake Harms talk about the band’s influences, their onstage versus offstage personalities, the role of record labels in 2026, and the songs that inspire memories.
With a sound steeped in ’90s alt-rock, grunge, and shoegaze, MX Lonely’s new album, All Monsters, could be the release that pushes Julia’s War Records into a wider spotlight. In this conversation, Rae Haas and Jake Harms talk about the band’s influences, their onstage versus offstage personalities, the role of record labels in 2026, and the songs that inspire memories.
Over their eighteen years as a band, Jim Putnam’s Los Angeles based collective Radar Brothers proved to be a model of consistency and melancholic, sun-baked comfort. Defying conventional, perpetual myths that artists must consciously reinvent themselves, a deep dive retrospective at the band’s working class trajectory reveals a singular path on the perennial edge of a larger, opportunistic breakthrough.
Over their eighteen years as a band, Jim Putnam’s Los Angeles based collective Radar Brothers proved to be a model of consistency and melancholic, sun-baked comfort. Defying conventional, perpetual myths that artists must consciously reinvent themselves, a deep dive retrospective at the band’s working class trajectory reveals a singular path on the perennial edge of a larger, opportunistic breakthrough.