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Hit Like A Girl (CREDIT: Fish Outta Water Films) Montclair, New Jersey's own Hit Like A Girl is following up their 2021's Heart Racer EP with a brand new release, Becoming, and this one boasts a completely different sound. Frontperson Nicolle Maroulis cut their teeth in the Hardcore scene and they were inspired to make an EP in that style after witnessing a particularly great set by The Callous Daoboys at The Fest last year. Maroulis recruited their REFRESH Records labelmates Talor Smith (Biitchseat) and Jimmy Wilkens (Jimmy Lo-Fi, The Sonder Bombs,) as well as Avery Hargrave & Michael Morris, to play on it. Steve Perrino, who's worked with Heart Attack Man, The Sonder Bombs, Biitchseat, etc. produced, mixed, and mastered the Becoming EP. Earlier this week, Hit Like A Girl partnered with BrooklynVegan to share our first taste of the forthcoming EP with "Dismay" and its companion music video. It's a fairly aggressive and scuzzy Metallic Hardcore/Screamo...

Sunstroke is a Melodic Hardcore band from Philly consisting of frontman Sean Farlow, lead guitarist Ian Strang, and drummer Brandon F. Wallace, as well as three additional, rather mysterious members, simply known as bassist Mikey, and second/third guitarists Justin & John K. Gillin has spent time playing with [This Is Not for You.], Spoiled Brat, and Waller; while Wallace was once the touring drummer for American Nightmare and has previously played with Damage, I HATE YOU. Knives Out, and Memorial Day, as well as countless other bands. Farlow, whose previous credits are unknown, tells us both Justin & John K. are, also, part of newly-minted New Jersey-based Punk/Hardcore band THOUGHT CONTROL . It appears as though Sean Farlow is a barber on staff at Pennsport Barbershop located in South Philly. Sunstroke have been active since about 2018, when they released their debut EP, Second Floor / Seven on multi-colored vinyl through a partnership with Coin Toss Records & New Moral...