Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stumbling upon Swirlies for the first time felt like striking gold. They’re a band that begs to be discovered by digging through ...

Veteran shoegazey indie rockers Swirlies will release a new EP titled Magic Strop: Tonight which is out Sunday (9/23). Most of the tracks are from a Part Time Punks radio session, but it does also ...

For Swirlies vocalist and guitarist Damon Tutunjian, “the quest for flowery language drives people to write horrible reviews.” I can’t say I disagree. “[Writing about music] shouldn’t be a poetry or ...

Swirlies formed in 1990, after Boston punk Rusty Nails (who’d later move to Chicago and make the underground horror flick Acne) tried to start a Go-Go’s cover band with guitarists and singers Damon ...

Rob Laakso died on Thursday at 44 after a battling a particularly aggressive form of cancer. The two artists most associated with him — Kurt Vile & The Violators and Swirlies — have since both shared ...