ARTICLE: Shore Local Newsmagazine

Thursday 19, 2026 | Doug Deutsch

Local rockers Deardarkhead releasing new album
‘The Pendulum Swings’ in A.C. Saturday

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Regular readers of this column know that we’ve always had a soft spot for local talent. There’s some terrific bands performing original music at the shore including Gutterdrunk, Twisted Livin’, Te Vista, Reckless Randy, senior statesmen rocker, Malcolm Tent, 1adam12 and more.

With that in mind, it’s a pleasure to write about a band called Deardarkhead.

Formed in 1988, DD’s sound incorporates guitar-driven shoegaze and dreampop, with post-punk and psychedelic influences. Last time we saw this indie rock trio, they performed a solid set at WLFR’s Anniversary Party in 2024.

“Our new 10-song album is called ‘The Pendulum Swings’ and we will be releasing it on CD, vinyl and digital through our own Fertile Crescent Records label later in 2026,” Robert Weiss, Deardarkhead’s drummer, told us in an email interview last week.

It was recorded at Miner Street Recordings in Philadelphia with owners Brian McTear and Amy Morrissey, who have hosted recordings by countless artists including The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten and The Dead Milkmen.

The members of Deardarkhead are Kevin Harrington (guitar), Weiss (drums), and bassist James Malizia, who joined the group in 2024.

Deardarkhead has released five recordings since forming Fertile Crescent Records. Their music has also appeared on various indie compilations from the USA and Japan. Captured Tracks released a retrospective of their early material called “Oceanside: 1991-1993” as the second contribution to their “Shoegaze Archives” series at the end of 2011.

The band joined Saint Marie Records, a label specializing in shoegaze, dreampop, indiepop and electronic music, in 2015. Their first recording for the label, “Strange Weather,” was released in March 2016 and was critically lauded.

Local music fans have an opportunity to see the somewhat-reclusive band when they perform at Little Water Distillery, 807 Baltic Ave., Unit B (“enter from Lexington Avenue,” advises Weiss) in Atlantic City Saturday, Feb. 21. The distillery opens at 1 p.m., Le Onde Coal Fire Pizza Truck will be there at 5 p.m. and the show is at 7 p.m.

“It’s a free show and we will be performing 18 songs, including the majority of the new album, all of our last EP, plus a brand new song and much older material as well,” said Weiss, who is also a talented graphic designer.

“I recently helped out Malcolm Tent with some design work for his latest album (‘A Fade Worse Than Deaf’) at the request of Adam Berardo (1Adam12) who also plays with Malcolm on the recording with his sons Niko and Desi (Te Vista),” Weiss said. “I was happy to lend a hand, as I have known Malcolm a long time. He was very happy with it.”

More information on Deardarkhead can be found on Instagram, Facebook, X and at deardarkhead.com.

https://shorelocalnews.com/local-rockers-deardarkhead-releasing-new-album-the-pendulum-swings-in-a-c-saturday/

ARTICLE: Phoenix New Times

October 25, 2018 | Ashley Naftule

10 Gateway Drugs Into the World of Captured Tracks

There are still record labels out there whose cosign means something, labels whose names on the spine of a record clue you in immediately to the kind of world they're trying to build, whose logos act as a stamp of approval. For indie rock lovers, Captured Tracks is just such a label.

The Brooklyn-based label have hit their "aluminum and tin" anniversary this year. In just 10 years, they've assembled an impressive roster of indie acts, ranging from couch-surfing crooner Mac DeMarco and the dreamy Technicolor pop of Wild Nothing to rampaging grunge-punks in Naomi Punk. They've also been killing it in the reissues game, resurrecting classic British DIY groups like The Wake and The Monochrome Set, bringing cassette kingpin Martin Newell's entire discography back into print, re-releasing New Zealand jangle-pop classics from Flying Nun Records, and even putting out deluxe box sets for groups like Nebraskan post-punks For Against.

To celebrate their big 1-0, the label is doing an anniversary tour. Three of their up-and-coming acts are on the road and coming to Phoenix on Friday, October 26: singer-songwriter Lina Tullgren; warped art-rockers Drahla; and "guitarless guitar music" Auckland band Wax Chattels. They represent the label's future, so we thought it'd be fun to look back at Captured Tracks' past and highlight their "top 10." If you're looking for an introduction into the sprawling Captured Tracks discography, these 10 artists are a great place to start.

deardarkhead
Speaking of shoegaze: You can't get much more introverted and gaze-y than the gentle dream pop of deardarkhead. A group of Anglophile rockers from New Jersey, they took their name from an Irish-language poem called “Cean Dubh Dilis” by Sir Samuel Ferguson. Captured Tracks put out a comp of their early work called Oceanside: 1991-1993 which chronicles the band's evolution from moody, Cure-esque post-punk copycats to a sound that's more lush and dreamy. While so many U.S. shoegaze groups tried (and failed) to beat My Bloody Valentine and Ride at their own game by going loud, deardarkhead eschewed tinnitus-guitars for the kind of dreamier, softer dynamic sounds that Slowdive and The Pale Saints were putting out. It’s music that wafts in and out of your ears like smoke: twisting, languorous, and ethereal.

Read the full article here:
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/10-captured-tracks-artists-to-get-you-ready-for-their-10th-anniversary-showcase-10948772