Chukwalla – July 2026
Have you ever wondered what a couple bands from Austin, TX and Montreal, Quebec would sound like if you smashed them together? Chukwalla might be the best chance you’ll ever get to experience such a phenomenon. The six (!) piece band booked some time in a Montreal studio this past July and ripped through three jams. The resulting release is titled, simply, July 2026, and finds the band exploding with energy while simultaneously exploring unfamiliar ground. With minimal time for the band to learn each song and an unfamiliar studio setting (that, to be fair, had some super fancy gear), the band blasted through these songs while literally still in a state of discovering them. Minimal overdubs were recorded, so what you’re hearing on July 2026 is a band in flux, making decisions on the fly and navigating the exciting energies of jamming on something for the first few times. That energy[...]