Mom Jeans., Just Friends, Shortly
UW Memorial Union-Terrace 800 Langdon St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Four weed-loving dudes from California making sad punk music? It’s a tried-and-true recipe, but this Berkeley-based quartet is reviving the genre in the best way possible. With confessional lyrics, driving guitar-punk instrumentation and songs with titles like “Sobs Quietly” and “near death fail comp (must watch til end),” the emo revival is in full swing. With Just Friends and Shortly.
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press release: Detroit artist Alex Maniak (AKA Shortly) is excited to announce her debut EP Richmond – due out September 14 via New York label Triple Crown Records. Richmond was recorded and produced by Hop Along guitarist Joe Reinhart (Joyce Manor, Thin Lips, Foxing) at The Headroom in Philadelphia. Along with the news of the debut EP Shortly has released “Finders Keepers,” a new song that follows the emotionally-charged single and EP track “Spare Time,” which was released in May.
"Finders Keepers" by Shortly
"Finders Keepers is about trading pieces of yourself with the people you care about and feeling them radiating off of leftover flannel shirts and sheets like a phantom limb. This song is a sort of an anthem made out of spiraling thoughts at a time when dissolution and isolation became the forefront of my personal life. I cared too much about someone else and so I lost myself in them. When they left, what I had was less than what I started with, and it felt like they had everything. It didn't feel right, and it didn't feel fair that I was haunted and they were not." – Alex Maniak