Artist: Speak Low If You Speak Love Album: Everything But What You Need Genre: Acoustic indie rock Label: Pure Noise Records In the punk world, acoustic side projects often carry an unjustified stigma. While many of the records in the “sensitive pop-punk dude with acoustic guitar” genre tend to fall flat due to uninspired songwriting […]
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Speak Low If You Speak Love Premieres “Have My Head”
March 19th, 2015 
Kyle Florence Speak Low If You Speak Love (Ryan Scott Graham of State Champs) has partnered with AbsolutePunk to premiere a brand new single titled “Have My Head.” Check it out by following the jump below, and let us know what you think in the replies. The track is taken from the remastered version of Everything But […]
Speak Low If You Speak Love Signs to Pure Noise Records
December 12th, 2014 Kyle Florence Earlier today, Pure Noise Records welcomed Speak Low If You Speak Love (Ryan Scott Graham of State Champs) to its ever-growing roster of rockers. The label will re-release the Michigan crooner’s debut full-length, Everything But What You Need, this coming spring, along with four brand new tracks. Painfully honest and unyielding from start to finish, fans of […]
Absolutepunk Presents: Speak Low If You Speak Love Album Premiere
December 23rd, 2013 Jacob Tender My pal Christian at AbsolutePunk.net has a lot of cool friends. Among those is Ryan Scott Graham, a member of Good Luck Varsity. Ryan has a solo project called Speak Low If You Speak Love and his first record, Everything But What You Need, has been premiered by ap.net this afternoon. If you like music by Into It. Over […]
10 Years Later: The Sound Of Animals Fighting’s ‘Lover, The Lord Has Left Us…’
May 30th, 2016 Kacy Raby “Lover, the lord has left us,” answered Charlemagne, though he wasn’t sure if Penelope could hear him, “if ever the lord was here.” – “Charlemagne & Penelope” by Chris Haynie We all have that band or artist which opened our eyes to the broader spectrum of what music is capable of being. From getting a […]
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Jungle Book’ is much more than just a bare necessity of life
April 15th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: The Jungle Book Directed by: Jon Favreau Starring: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Idris Elba “Ooh-bi-doo, I wan’na be like you. I want to walk like you, talk like you, too.” It may be a bit hard to believe that an orangutan singing this line to a man-cub could speak lengths as to how director […]
Boston Underground Film Fest 2016: ‘Kill Your Friends’ and ‘Little Sister’
March 28th, 2016 Sam Cohen Film: Kill Your Friends Starring: Ed Skrein, Nicholas Hoult, Rosanna Arquette Directed by: Owen Harris Music industry satires seem to be a semi-popular thing to do today. Vinyl, the Scorsese-produced HBO show, is now in its fifth or sixth week of characters doing cocaine and bumping into famous bands. While Kill Your Friends doesn’t go […]
UTG TRACK-BY-TRACK: I Hate Heroes – ‘If Life Were A Book, I’d Skip This Chapter’
December 2nd, 2015 Kyle Florence Drawing influence from bands like Silverstein, We Came As Romans, and A Day To Remember, I Hate Heroes‘ hook-heavy brand of post-hardcore is essential listening for anyone who has ever spent a sweat-soaked afternoon wandering Warped Tour. The Pennsylvania six-piece effortlessly cycle between radio-ready refrains and pulse-pounding breakdowns, and do so with a poise that […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Violet Night Discuss ‘I Hope You’re Well’
November 17th, 2015 Brian Leak British Columbia duo Violet Night released a four-track EP at summer’s end, titled I Hope You’re Well. Attributing influences to The National, Blink-182, Death Cab For Cutie and more, the effort offers slow and steady, genuinely heartfelt tracks that fans of any of those acts should find enjoyment in. We had the opportunity to speak […]
The Matches Are Back And Better Than Your Favorite Band
September 30th, 2015 James Shotwell Six years have passed since The Matches blessed us with new music, but when the band officially reunited earlier this year fans knew it was only a matter of time until the group returned to the studio. I’m happy to say, the wait is finally over. Earlier today, September 30, The Matches partnered with our […]
Foreign Tongues Share Existential Video For “Fools Of Love”
August 25th, 2015 Drew Caruso If you hadn’t heard, I really like Foreign Tongues. Especially their debut LP, Fragile, As Said Before, out now via No Sleep Records. The band’s massive debut LP features pain and beauty stacked between layers of textures and sounds, and now you can visualize such experiences with a video for album opener “Fools Of Love.” […]
Boston’s Cousin Stizz Should Be Your New Favorite Rapper
August 20th, 2015 James Shotwell Our love for the creative minds of New England is as old as this site, but we’ll be the first to admit that Boston has only been home to a handful of notable rappers. Blame it on the “Dirty Water” or perhaps the legendary blue collar workforce, but far more great rock bands have hailed […]