Forget Cassettes

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, one of my favorite sets from CMJ was the show put on by Nashville's Forget Cassettes. If you don't listen to WOXY.com, you probably haven't heard the band's music, and that's a shame.

Forget Cassettes are one of the few really good bands around these days playing what used to be called post-punk*, i.e., angular guitars, shifting time signatures, loud-soft dynamics, etc. Think Q and Not U, Braid and a lot of the bands on Dischord in the late 90's/early 00's, and then add a female singer with a voice that can switch from seductive to menacing at the drop of a hat. The band's songs are challenging (in a good way), with numerous parts, and shifts from soft to pummeling and back, and with a degree of musicianship seldom seen in indie rock these days. I can't recommend them enough.

"The Catch" (from the new album, Salt)
"Ms. Rythym and Blues" (from Instruments of Action)

And check out the band's most recent Lounge Act performance for WOXY.

* Unfortunately, around 1999 of so, the term "post-punk" started being used by bands to avoid being called "emo". As a result, a lot of crappy emo bands started calling themselves post-punk, and the term essentially lost its meaning.