Spartan Records

Traveling across the midwest, Southwest and up the coast to Seattle, both bands are playing crushing new music from their latest albums. Season to Risk are a first wave post-hardcore band that has only gotten weirder over the years, adding dark synth to their genre-blending mix of noise, math, and indie rock. Their rhythm section has gone through multiple changes, at times including most members of Shiner, also from Kansas City, Missouri. Guitarist Duane Tower and singer Steve Tulipana have been constant players, along with David Silver since 1994, and Wade Williamson since 2000. New bass player Ben Ruth (Overstep / Be/Non) has toured with the band a couple years and became official in 2025. Season to Risk released the limited edition Record Store Day vinyl “1 800 MELTDOWN” in April, a perfect dystopian soundtrack for the insanity of 2025, featuring the single “Echo Chamber”, a new song about the reality-distorting online culture that got us in this mess. Sisters have been carving out their own heavy, melodic world since the release of their debut EP “Make It Hurt” in 2020 — a record that laid the foundation for their signature sound: raw, riff-driven rock with an unflinching honesty. Followed by the full length “Leecheater” in 2023. Now, the duo Jason Blackmore (Molly McGuire) and Mario Quintero (Spotlights), return with “Wings of Deliverance”, a darker, more experimental follow-up that examines the bands fascination with cults, religion, and power structures led through a conceptual exploration of the Jonestown Massacre. Drummer Ian Prince (BirdHands) and bassist Matt Armstrong (Frank Lero and The Future Violents) will be holding down rhythm section duties for this upcoming tour. Both bands are known for their existential lyrics that stick in your head along with their riffs and make you ponder the deeper meaning of things. “In these kind of lame times, the takeaway of this show is having a good time and feeling some positivity. The old punk rock ethos of community, where we can get together with likeminded freaks and go off.”