Heart & Lung

Cleveland punks Heart & Lung never set out to be a “midwest band,” but inevitably the rustbelt bleakness and coping mechanisms found in the dead of winter drinking in basements with friends seeps into the punk rock created there. It’s an ethos that lives in smoke-filled studio spaces littered with bottles of local lager and various bits of equipment that, at any time, may need to be sold to pay the gas bills.