Stefan Christensen, Dan Greene, Tim Rowe @ Willimantic Records SUNDAY 3/16

Willimantic Records has been rocking mad shows recently, and that's a good thing! Come by at 3pm on Sunday, pick up some wax and check out 3 acclaimed singer/songwriters!

ESTROGEN HIGHS @ BEST VIDEO on AUG 14

Garage rock barn burners Estrogen Highs are playing at Best Video in Hamden on Wednesday, and you should get down with supporting great local music as well as well as a great venue/video store!

Broken Water, Estrogen Highs and Empty Flowers @ BAR on 5/22

New Haven's favorite Estrogen Highs are playing at BAR on Wednesday with Broken Water and Empty Flowers!

Estrogen Highs - "Live at Cafe Nine" Cassette

Some people say punk, some say garage, even the term shoegaze has been thrown into the mix. Whatever you call Estrogen Highs, they are pure rock and roll and they prove it on their latest release (another great Safety Meeting Records release) “Live at Café Nine” on cassette. Yes, cassette.

The Inclined Plane, Estrogen Highs, Purling Hiss at InterCambio – June 30

Live music struggles to overcome! (cue the movie trailor announcer voice and photo slide show!) In a world... when venues are getting shut down, or are turning into strictly art space, and at a time... exactly the time that Ideat fest organizer Bill Saunders was getting arrested for failing to produce a copy of his permit to have live music until 10 just feet away around the corner... At a place where the night's patrons whispered talk of InterCambio itself risking closure as a live music venue... 3 out of 4 bands scheduled to play took the stage and gave those in attendance just what they came for.

Estrogen Highs - Irrelevant Future

Estrogen Highs - I wanna be tall by mexicanrobots

Meta-modernism is the new post-modernism--reimagining threads of the past to create nostalgic, yet fresh new sounds, images, or writing. Somewhat different from how Post-modernists deconstructs what once was and rebuilds from there--it lacked the nostalgic feeling. New Haven's Estrogen High's newest record, "Irrelevant Future," certainly fits the meta-modernist movement quite well. Though, perhaps I am reading in to them too much. Their revival of 77 Style grimily mixed with Brit-punk shimmers through their quite impressive recording while simultaneously creating a fresh look at these ancient styles. (I could swear they recorded it on tape...) A lot of bands try to be another band. For example, some bands might mimic the sound Wire, or The Chills, or Joy Division... The key word is mimic... Estrogen Highs do much more than mimic, they reinvent and transcend the sound in which they are influenced by. From listening to this record, it sounds like they take much influence from Wire, Pink-Flag era, yet, as i mentioned a second ago, they have completely taken the sound and made it their own. This is hard to do.