Nara's Room

Nara’s Room– Rat. The latest drop from the sometime-solo project, most-of-the-time band, Nara’s Room, is out now via Candlepin Records. A bit more polished in its execution, this jangly indie-rock gem from the mind of Nara Avakian is still chock full of lo-fi saturation in all the best ways we love them for. You can hear all the whistles and pops of guitar strings in its quieter moments but when it gets big and loud, its rich sonic layers nestle between the cracks of triumphant drum rolls and slam in like a hurricane.

“There’s a rat in my belly and it’s trying to tell you something” sings Avakian who also directed and edited the music video, shot on their famed around Brooklyn camcorder by Heather Jensen. It gives some major Real World/Reality Bites vibes with that signature Nara’s Room VHS BetaMax doc retro style. Starring a couple Sony Walkmans, a flip phone, and an Etch A Sketch, the the video follows the deadpan-faced band from White Castle, to the rock show and back up across Brooklyn rooftops. If only emotions were served up as easily as an order of chicken rings. “What else can I say….? What else can I do…. ?” [MB] - Full Time Awesthetic

Friends! After a three year hiatus (something happened) we're very happy to bring back our hardest-working bands list and it feels real good.
As you probably know if you've been following your friendly local hard-working music blob across the eras, the two of us hand-list a *lot* of shows each year (9,577 in NYC in A.D. 2022, to be exact) and we love giving a special shout to the local rising bands who kept gracing the pages of our fine showlist over and over again. Thus, this list.
Our year-end numbers are in and for the first time since 2019 we can boldly state that the following bands below had the most shows listed on Oh My Rockness this year. Not the most shows played. We're sure we probably missed listing a few of their gigs. We're only two people, remember. Just the most shows listed. So get into these bands today and go see them play and maybe someday you can brag to someone you want to impress that you saw them way back when before they were big.
Props to all these bands (and all bands) who are out there working hard and big thanks to all you show-goers for supporting independent artists, venues and music blobs.

See you out there. - Oh My Rockness

For the final show, Tea Eater was joined by three other Brooklyn locals: experimental shoegazers, Nara’s Room, who reminded me of a bit of a more laid back Hum (who I absolutely love), alt-twee indie rockers Modern Flame who were playing their first show with new guitarist, Tui Jordan, and Namesake the jangly indie dream punkers who closed the show with a high energy set. All in all, not a bad way to spend a Monday (or any) night in Brooklyn. Keep your eyes and ears on these bands around town, you won’t be sorry. - Full Time Aesthetic