The Exploding Hearts are returning with a bang as they announced an expanded and remastered reissue of their only album, Guitar Romantic. The record, which originally dropped in 2003, will include ...
Back in 2002, Portland, OR’s The Exploding Hearts recorded and released their only album for the small, then Portland-based indie punk label Dirtnap (and in Europe via the Screaming Apple imprint).
To be in a band in Portland, in the early 2000s, was to be part of a very specific aesthetic. While he no longer lived there, the specter of the city’s poet laureate, Elliott Smith, loomed large, with ...