New York never sleeps. And neither does Been Stellar. Five young souls born into this city took its noise, wrapped it around their guitar strings, and screamed it into the night with Scream from New York, NY.
This isn't just an album. It’s the sound of Brooklyn’s echoes, taxi horns blaring into the void, fluorescent lights flickering in subway stations. Been Stellar takes the garage rock fury of the early 2000s and runs it through today’s gritty romanticism and a stone-solid production. With Dan Carey behind the boards, their sound shakes more than just walls—it shakes us, too.
The Heartbeats of Modern Chaos
Every track on the album carries the tension of growing up in the city. “Pumpkin” hangs low like smoke in a basement show. “All in One” finds you staring at the ceiling in a cramped apartment, wondering where it all went sideways. Sam Slocum doesn’t sing—he unloads. Words are jammed in his throat, but they have to come out, somehow.
The guitars are aggressive but sharp. The drums march like footsteps under streetlights. Every track slams shut like a subway door—but always delivers you somewhere new.
Straight Out of the City’s Core
Beyond Slocum, there’s Laila Wayans (drums), Skyler Knapp (guitar), Nico Brunstein (bass), and Nando Dale (guitar)—together, they build music like a building: layer by layer, rising high. Sometimes glowing, sometimes shadowy. But always towering.
Scream from New York, NY isn’t just something to play in the background. You have to sit with it. Let it spill into you. This isn’t headphone music—it’s street music. The kind that finds you walking alone in a crowd, trying to quiet the noise in your head… and then hearing Been Stellar’s version of it instead.
Screaming Into the Future
Been Stellar is hitting the road. On stage, they’re even rawer, even more unapologetically themselves. This band is an aesthetic explosion: chaotic, calculated, and completely alive. And one thing’s for sure—no one channels New York’s unrelenting spirit quite like they do.
The city breathes. They scream. And we listen.
