Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Montclair

One Liner:  Maybe a local band made up of siblings grooving low key rock

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but folk-rock, indie rock
Home: Austin

Poster Position: Bottom Quarter - Line 24
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday at 12:45

Tito's Tent

Thoughts: The Mercury Montclair was a line of automobiles made by Ford Motor Company in the 1950s.  Montclair bottled water and Montclair cigarettes.  The USS Montclair or Operation Montclair, a military operation by the US and Australia during World War II.  Or, more likely, they are from a town named Montclair, since there are many of those.

There are, apparently, multiple bands that use this name.  I have a feeling that our Montclair is the Austin indie folk-rock band made up of siblings Casen, Anna, Jackson, and Clay (and not the Connecticut-based hardcore punk band or the community band in New Jersey.  There is very little online about the band, no (easy to find) articles, interviews, whatever.  Well, there may be a facebook page, but that is blocked on my computer so I can't go see if that is really the same band.  They sound kind of like Briscoe and kind of like Ryan Adams, but with a pretty low key, DIY folky rock sound.

One album, 2025's Heart is Alive! and then a handful of singles and an EP before that.  Not a ton of music, got started in 2024 with the title single to that album, and since the album they've released two more singles.  Top track is a 2025 tune on their Passing Through EP.  "Pastel Lies," with 72k streams.

Let's just assume that is the right band, and in that case, not bad!  I'd go groove around to that in the Tito's Tent for a little while.


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