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Last week on The Local Project, host Jake Videmschek talked to The Glass Cavalry, a new import from Columbia that describes themselves as a “Weezer-Pink Floyd hot fudge sundae”. Here you can hear clips from the interview about the band’s origins and what they’ve noticed about moving into Saint Louis’ music scene, along with clips of Cuomo-Waters desserts in MP3 form.

Glass Cavalry – Part 1

Glass Cavalry – Part 2

Glass Cavalry – Part 3

Glass Cavalry – Part 4

This week The Glass Cavalry released their Burn and Void EP on the Ides of March, now available on iTunes. If you want to preview more of their music, you can find out what all this Pink Floyd-Weezer business is about at their Reverb Nation page, If you’re out in Columbia, you can see their show at March 29 at The Bridge, and if you’re in here in Saint Louis, you can find updates for local gigs on their Twitter.

Roundheels made their debut in Episode 4 almost exactly a year ago, and we’ve been following them ever since. Members have changed and songs have been re-recorded, and now they’re on the brink of a new album and building a new record label. We check in with the band (now Brendan Corchran with vocals and guitar, Jacob Lewis on guitar, Eric Moore on drums, and recent addition Kyle Christians on bass) and discuss their progress, the re-recording process, forming a new label, the resurgence of vinyl, and Saint Louis’ challenging lack support for local music compared to other cities.

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The Local Project returns for the new year with Media Ghost, a band that mixes elements of prog-rock, 80s synths, and a Lou Reed guitar into a no-wave foundation. Buddy Shumaker (Vocals, guitar, keyboards), Joe Zydiak (bass), and Seth Donnely (drums) came in to talk about the no-wave style and how they blend it in with their own far-flung influences, their writing process, and the lines between studio performances and live performances.

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