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Chastity Belt talks a lot about intention these days-how to be more present with each other. The four piece-Julia Shapiro (vocals, guitar, drums), Lydia Lund (vocals, guitar), Gretchen Grimm (drums,... more

I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is Chastity Belt's third and finest full-length album to date. Recorded live in July of 2016, at Jackpot! In Portland, OR with producer/mixer Matthew Simms of Wire,... more

Chastity Belt is a rock band consisting of four friends - guitarists Julia Shapiro and Lydia Lund, bassist Annie Truscott, and drummer Gretchen Grimm. They met in a tiny college town in Eastern... more

Manzanita is the common name for a kind of small evergreen tree endemic to California which has strong medicinal properties. It's also the name of the brand new full length by visual artist, writer,... more

Shana Cleveland has been beguiling listeners for years in her role as the superlative frontwoman for elastic surf rockers La Luz. Now Cleveland is evolving her sound on the new solo full-length Night... more

Chris Cohen was always a quiet kid. In fact, this introversion was one reason he began playing music as a toddler-to communicate without speaking, to identify with others without the direct... more

"There are two ways things can fall," says Dude York's Claire England. "They can fall and be ruined, or they can fall gently like a feather and be fine." On Falling, their second full-length for... more

The Seattle-based trio Dude York-Peter Richards on guitar and vocals, Claire England on bass and vocals, and Andrew Hall on drums-is announcing itself with an album that couches it's themes of... more

2014 release, the second album from the Massachusetts based band. IN ROSES was recorded at Tiny Telephone, John Vanderslice's studio, in 2013. For IN ROSES, Gem Club worked along with arranger and... more

2020 release. Burning deep in Girl Friday's music is an unquenchable will to survive. The LA-based band don't blunt the impact of the themes they work through in their ferocious, knotty rock songs,... more

Colleen Green has always been cool, but on 2015's I Want To Grow Up, she didn't necessarily feel it. Too young to be free of insecurities but old enough to be sick of them running her life, Green was... more

I Want to Grow Up, the latest collection of songs from LA songstress Colleen Green, follows a newly 30-year-old Green as she carefully navigates a minefield of emotion. Her firm belief in true love... more

Colleen Green is a powerful DIY force of one. She looms large, not only in the basement scene of the USA, but across the large stages of North America. People left and right fall for her style and... more

Hunx & His Punx have returned with Street Punk - their 2013 album filled with the catchiest and most hateful Punk songs heard in eons. Street Punk is an unrelenting tour de force, echoing early '80s... more

TOO YOUNG TO BE IN LOVE is the first fully-realized Hunx and His Punx album, and the group's first for Hardly Art. It was recorded in New York City by Ivan Julianone of the founding members of... more

Here's the thing about ill peach: this band exists because they are too weird to not exist. The seed of ill peach was planted in the recording studios of New York City where Pat Morrissey and Jess... more

Kathleen Hanna stealthily assembled the members of The Julie Ruin without any of them realizing exactly what was happening. It all began in late 2009. Kathleen had not released an album since Le... more

Seattle surf-noir quartet La Luz release their highly anticipated 2013 full length LP after collecting up high praise in regards to their live shows from LA to Texas to New York and everywhere in... more

On their self-titled fourth album, La Luz launch themselves into a new realm of emotional intimacy for a collection of songs steeped in the mysteries of the natural world and the magic of human... more

For most, a brush with death would be cause for retreat, reflection, and reluctance, but Seattle band La Luz found something different in it: resilience. Having survived a high-speed highway... more

"I want total freedom, total possibility, total acceptance. I want to fall in love with the rock." That's how Lillie West describes the theme of "DIVER," the song she calls the thesis of Lala Lala's... more

Across the album's 12 tracks, West carefully examines the skeletons in her closet for the first time, hoping to capture honest snapshots of her past selves. Many of the songs show West asking herself... more

Originally released in October 2016 as a long-since sold-out self-released cassette, Hardly Art is proud to announce that Sleepyhead, the debut full-length from celebrated Chicago band Lala Lala, is... more