Rough Trade Recommends: TVOD + HIGHDRIVE + Honk

**Rough Trade Recommends presents: TVOD + HIGHDRIVE + Honk**

Rough Trade's monthly new music showcase returns with some of the best up-and-coming acts in the alternative scene.

**TVOD**

Brooklyn-based rockers TVOD stand out with emotional, sometimes juvenile lyrics, paired with driving, catchy songs that never fail to get a crowd moving/moshing. Influenced by post-punk, egg punk and krautrock, TVOD effortlessly weave musical genres in a way that comes off seamlessly. “More than anything, their sound is engineered to make you move” (Creem Magazine). The brainchild of singer-songwriter Tyler Wright, the project draws from personal and external inspirations like the nightlife/music scene, heartaches, World War II, the untimely death of a beloved pet fish, and so on. TVOD’s vivid storytelling paints a gritty tongue-in-cheek picture of being a D.I.Y. artist grinding it out in NYC, complete with fabled tales about the degenerate lifestyle and all the good and the bad that comes with it.

**HIGHDRIVE**

Forming in 2024 with a mutual appreciation for acts including Deftones, The Jesus and Mary Chain and DIIV, those disparate influences have carved out a unique lane for the Brighton upstarts, with the band quickly becoming a fixture of the South Coast live scene before releasing any music, scoring early shows alongside Marmozets, English Teacher, Do Nothing, TTSSFU, DEADLETTER, Welly and Glare. Now HIGHDRIVE have just released their second single 'Something I Said'; and look forward to a busy summer festival season.

**Honk**

Honk are a genre-warping six-piece that are here to rewire your idea of country music. It’s called “Trashcan Country” – a raucous, rough-edged twist on twang. It’s been dragged through the back alleys of punk, doused in garage-rock grit, and left to dry in the blazing sun.

At the core of Honk is their electrifying live show — equal parts hoedown and meltdown — which has earned them support slots with trailblazers like Meryl Streak, Delivery, and Being Dead, as well as consistent backing from BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley.With The Real Red Foley, Randy Harrison, Chubby Hellrat, Yeehaw Culhane, L.E. Steel, and Stanley Knife at the helm, Honk delivers a sound that’ll make you stomp your boots — or knock them clean off. As their debut album, One Star, prepares to drop this May on Swish Swash and chrüsimüsï Records, the buzz is building into a full-blown roar.