Pique Audio Visual, Bloomington, IN (2026)

02/13/2026

Link in bio ~ Terantula — Jolly Chimp
Out now via Pique Audio Visual.

Happy Friday the 13th ~ This marks another milestone for PiqueAV as well as our latest signee, Lafayette, Indiana based 3-piece rock band Terantula; their debut LP ‘Jolly Chimp’ is available everywhere music streams.

There’s a certain kind of debut record that doesn’t sound like an introduction. It sounds like a band that’s already been through something.
There’s a ragged immediacy here — the kind that defined ’90s alternative rock at its most vital. Guitars that scrape instead of shimmer. Melodies that feel earned.

You can hear the quiet-to-eruptive tension popularized by Nirvana, first carved into form by Pixies. There’s the bruised simplicity of a band like Failure, the wiry unease of Hum, the kind of melodic abrasion that once made Stone Temple Pilots feel massive without trying to be.

The trio of young rockers — Silas Hall, Jerome Fones, & DanielRyan — self-proclaimed nu-grunge, seems less interested in nostalgia than momentum… but don’t take our word for it, go have a listen!

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08/21/2025

Link in bio ~ Echoes of the Past; the Folk Tradition of Cover Songs— ‘Panic” by The Smiths

Part Eight: Welcome to Now; Plenty of Panic to Go Around...

When Panic first hit shelves in July 1986, it arrived as a standalone single from The Smiths — their first recording as a five-piece with new member Craig Gannon on rhythm guitar. It climbed to No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 7 in Ireland, cementing itself as one of the band’s most instantly recognizable tracks. Part of its punch came from the origin story: Morrissey and Johnny Marr were in a car, listening to a BBC Newsbeat bulletin on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, only to have it smash-cut into Wham!’s “I’m Your Man.” That tonal whiplash became fuel for one of the most pointed refrains of the decade — “Hang the blessed DJ.” As Marr later said in an interview, “What the f**k has this got to do with people’s lives?”

For Ramon, the irony wasn’t lost. He’d spent the past two years working weekends at a nightclub — a job that put him right in the center of DJ-driven nights. When it came time to celebrate the Blankets release, he hosted the party there with longtime friend behind the decks.

“I’m not like ‘hang the DJ,’” he says, “but I do feel like a lot of the music doesn’t say much to me about my life— then there’s that other side of that perspective, and whether or not I feel the music speaks to me, what can I learn from it, and why am being exposed, or exposing myself to it, so regularly at this point in time. That’s part of why I found resonance in leaning into a synth-heavy, more lo-fi electronica approach — almost like a DJ remixing the song. There’s some irony to it.”

Read the full article reflecting on .andthemind ‘s experience crafting their take on ‘Panic’ along with playlists for both & featuring 10 different versions, featuring, + more

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07/10/2025

Link in bio ~ Echoes of the Past; the Folk Tradition of Cover Songs— Part Seven: Making a Ballad of a Broken Reverie

Neutral Milk Hotel wasn’t just a band. For a certain subset of listeners—especially the ones with notebooks full of cryptic verses and no real vocal training—they were proof of life. The kind that doesn’t require polish to be powerful. They didn’t ask for your admiration. They whispered something stranger: permission.
Dive into .andthemind ‘s reflections of recording, and their connections to ‘In the Aeroplane Over the sea’ by at PiqueAV.com
+Take a listen to 10 unique takes on the indie classic, featuring .life +more curated for both & and let know us your favorite(s)!

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07/01/2025

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There’s no blueprint for this kind of post. No checklist for losing someone who shaped something sacred with you—especially when you didn’t know you were building something sacred in the first place.
Karissa Ray-Higgins passed away on January 2nd, 2025.
I didn’t hear about it from a headline or a phone call. I found out through a message from someone close to her—a friend gently inquiring about the books. Wondering when they’d arrive. Wondering why the silence.
That silence hit like a punch to the chest.
Karissa wasn’t just an artist for The Live Echoes. She was a co-architect… read full article .com

06/25/2025

Link in bio ~ ECHOES OF THE PAST: THE FOLK TRADITION OF COVER SONGS AND THE MOON & THE MIND’S RENDITION OF “KILLER QUEEN”
Part Six: Shipwrecked Glam & A Delayed Father’s Day Tribute

Part Six of Echoes of the Past arrives fashionably late, derailed not by apathy but by the cruel cocktail of summer depression and a production pipeline that eats time for breakfast. If there’s a running theme across this project, it’s that nostalgia refuses to obey deadlines. Some songs just take longer to tell...

Read the full article and enjoy playlists of 10 different versions of ‘Killer Queen’ at PiqueAV.com

05/17/2025

April 2025 came through with a genre-jumping mix of new releases—from long-anticipated returns to emerging names you’ll want on your radar. Our latest 10 Noteworthy Albums roundup is now live.
Head to the link in bio for the full article, plus curated playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. What were you spinning last month?

05/08/2025

Link in bio ~ Echoes from the Past: the folk tradition of cover songs and .andthemind ‘s rendition of s*x & candy
Part Five: Disco Lemons & Distorted Truths
There are songs that burrow into your psyche not because they make sense, but because they don’t. “Sex and Candy” by Marcy Playground is one of those strange beasts—a slow, sticky fever dream of a hit that crept onto the airwaves in 1997 and never quite left. Built on lethargic groove, abstract imagery, and the kind of stoned clarity you only get while stone-cold sober, the track became a slacker anthem for a generation too dazed to care and too smart not to notice…

Read the full article and enjoy playlists on & featuring 10 different artists take on classic “s*x & candy” featuring: .land and more

04/08/2025

Link in bio ~ Echoes of the Past: The Folk Tradition of Cover Songs and The Moon & The Mind’s Rendition of “Valerie”
Part Three: Emotional Bootlegs, Taxi Lyrics & the Q***r Dream Sequence of Track Four
Some songs show up dressed for the part. Others arrive in disguise. “Valerie,” the fourth track on Blankets, slips in like a late-night visitor—half-drunk on nostalgia, wearing somebody else’s perfume, holding a suitcase full of secrets. It’s a cover of a cover, and for The Moon & The Mind, it became a pivot point—one that almost didn’t survive the cutting room floor. Not because it wasn’t unwanted, but because it wouldn’t stop echoing someone else’s voice…

Read the full article and enjoy 10 different versions of ‘Valerie’ on playlists for both Apple & Spotify @ PiqueAV.com featuring stand out renditions by

02/27/2025

PiqueAV.com ~ Since made our list of noteworthy albums released in January of this we sent .mason to review their show & to sketch them live. Check it out at the link in our bio

02/14/2025

There are anniversaries, and then there are anniversaries. Today marks four years since Pique Audio Visual cracked its first bottle and set its first fire with Swanskin & The Live Echoes’ debut single, “While Eating With a Friend Lean Over and Ask If They Can Talk Cause They Might Be Choking.” A name as absurdly long as the aftershock it sent through the foundations of this so-called operation. That wasn’t just a song—it was a bullet through the paper-thin membrane separating intention from action, a sudden and violent affirmation that this thing, whatever it was, had begun.

And now, the wheel turns again. Swanskin & The Live Echoes return with “51 Day Standoff,” a title that sounds like a grim headline from some forgotten American tragedy—and maybe it is. A new dispatch from the edge of whatever this band is trying to say. A sequel? A continuation? A complete rejection of everything that came before? Who the hell knows.

But if history is any guide, this isn’t just a release. It’s another crack in the asphalt. The first song set the wheels in motion, leading PiqueAV into publishing, into comics, into collaborations with Karissa Ray, Chris Resnick, and other restless minds who saw something worth chasing. What the future holds is uncertain, and maybe that’s the point. But on a day when everything circles back to the beginning, one thing seems clear: we’re in for another round.

Listen to 51 Day Standoff now on all streaming platforms.

02/07/2025

Link in bio ~ Check out our list of 10 noteworthy albums released in January, 2025 w/ playlists on Apple and Spotify featuring:

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