Dead Tooth with Way of the Headband at The Loading Dock – Littleton, NH

Down the lost highway of damning self-indictments and apocalypse paralysis, there’s a party happening. That party is the eponymous debut full-length from NYC’s premier rodeo-core quintet, Dead Tooth. This album (out July 18th via TrashCasual) fearlessly plays out like a 90s blockbuster, replete with grandiose melodrama, black humor and larger-than-life character arcs. As near atonal hooks escape from frontman Zach Ellis Taut vocal cords, they echo a world where global and personal crises collide; like that chalk-white iceberg into the belly of the RMS Titanic. With mother nature on the skids and humanity floundering in desperation, Dead Tooth sets the scene in the medium of menacing guitars, guttural vocal hooks and blistering sax lines. Having previously released two EPs and a series of standalone singles with an ever-shifting lineup, this latest album features a pell mell, irrepressible uptick in urgency one could only find in New York’s underbelly. Dead Tooth Was tracked in multiple studios across NYC’s outer boroughs in sessions stretching from 2022-2024. With eleven songs as well as a remix from Mute Record’s multi-instrumentalist songwriting aficionado Miss Grit, the album arrives as a cohesive set, thanks in part to the deft touch of mixing engineer Tom Beaujour (Nada Surf, Juliana Hatfield). Keeping effects and overdubs at a minimum, Dead Tooth exudes a rawness that brings the sweat and clamor of a packed Brooklyn basement into the privacy of your very own speakers. The result is a committed undertaking to unveil 21st century living in all of its unvarnished depravity. As the ship sinks and the passengers cartwheel to their oblivion, this band plays on

Way of the Headband consists of a group of friends making music out of the Mountains of New Hampshire. 2025 marks a new beginning for the band, as founding member Orion Kugel is stepping away from drumming duties in order to raise an army of children. Keyboard/guitar playing prodigy Rafe Matregrano has shifted to the position of drums. Join Adam, Andrew, Rafe and Marshal as this new chapter in the book of Woth unfolds.

“We call our style “Lava Rock”, an ever changing flow of everything we love in musical form. Our fans, affectionately known as “Headbandits”, have compared Woth to a mix of Talking Heads, Pixies, Primus and Nirvana. Any way you look at it (or listen), WotH will make its way into your head. Stay tuned, Headbandits. We’ve only just begun.” – WotH

Find the first 3 Full Length WotH albums wherever you stream music and listen to the new EP “The Doggin’ Us” out NOW!