Loose Panic, Those Looks, The Successful Failures

Successful Failures
The NJ indie-rock/roots band, The Successful Failures, have released 11 albums full of songs about vikings, armadillos, costume parties, pimps, presidents, murder, love, and longing.  In 2025, TSF celebrated their 20 year anniversary with the release of an EP featuring songs they recorded in Memphis, TN at legendary Sun Studio. The band—featuring Ron Bechamps (bass/mandolin), Mick Chorba (vocals/guitar, Rob Martin (drums), and Pete Smith (electric guitar/bass guitar)—has shared the stage with Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Jeff Tweedy, Deer Tick, Dr. Dog, and many more.  https://thesuccessfulfailures.com/

Those Looks
Those Looks is an indie rock four-piece from Lambertville, New Jersey, known for their velvet wave style of dreamy, apocalyptic pop. Combining retro rock sounds, from surf to jangle, with classic pop melodies and hints of cosmic country and psychedelic folk, their music is the perfect soundtrack for the last summer on earth. The band includes Kelly Bolding on lead vocals and guitar, Sylvia Barrantes on lead guitar, Randall Newman on bass, and Shaun Ellis on drums, all of whom contribute to the lush vocal harmonies that are a throughline across the band’s songs. Previous releases include “Cherry” (2025), Passing Through (EP, 2025), and Cults Near Me (LP, 2022) on Mint 400 Records; “Laundry and Taxes” (2023) on Weathervane Music; and Come Unto Me (self-released EP, 2019). Those Looks play regularly across the New Jersey, Bucks County, and Philadelphia areas. They are currently writing and recording their second full-length album.

Loose Panic
Loose Panic is a Mercer-Bucks based indie rock group consisting of Jarret Crawford (vocals, guitar), Anthony Carlisi (bass), Liam Hare (drums), and Max Blauer (guitar). Loose Panic blends song-writing sensibilities inspired by folk and Americana with sonicscapes drawing from 90s and 2000s indie and alternative rock to create guitar-driven songs that alternately inspire both head-nodding and head-swaying. Woven into their songs are the complementary and opposing lyrical themes of loathing, loss, love, isolation, fury, and hope that permeate the ordinary and extraordinary state of 21st century existence. They released their debut EP, In Hindsight, in 2023, and their debut LP, Weightbearing, will be released in June 2026. The first single, The Cruelty is the Point, is available now on all streaming platforms. Check out www.loosepanic.com for information on the band and to join the mailing list.