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).
The Exploding Hearts are the biggest “what if” in the history of Portland music. Less than four months later, it all ended. On the way home from a sold-out show in San Francisco, the band's tour van ...
ON APRIL 1, 2003, Dirtnap Records released the Exploding Hearts’ debut album. An explosive platter of needle-sharp guitars, adenoidal vocals, and sugary pop hooks, Guitar Romantic remains a defining ...
If three-fourths of The Exploding Hearts hadn't died in a van crash three years ago, the band might've led a bratty power-pop revival akin to what The White Stripes did for garage-rock, or Interpol ...
Power-pop punk only has room for geniuses or Xerox machines; if you're not razor-sharp enough to be a Buzzcock, you better be sneaky enough to steal their riffs out from under them, else your clunky ...
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).