Oh Dang

Oh Dang is a New Orleans band stepping into new sonic territory with an unpredictable, harmony-forward sophomore release, their first as a five-piece rock 'n' roll band. “Big Dogs” is built on driving guitars, dynamic extremes, and songs that refuse to sit still, the record moves freely between archetypal grunge, haunting stripped-down ballads, slapstick country-rock, noisy punk songs, and slow, dissonant, dark folk poems. Every track sounds different—catchy earworms one moment, a slap in the face the next—yet the emotional throughline stays raw and deeply human.

Harper Browman and Tyler Ryan offer up warm, soft, powerful, cracking vocal harmonies that carry the weight of songs about love, loss, and addiction. Eric Anduha's lead guitar pushes the band into forceful range and chaos, while the production stays clean, crisp, and alive-letting the music stretch from whimsy to reverence and deep sadness without losing its DIY punch. Eric Martinez and Dylan Grove hold down the rhythm section, providing a backbone of coherent unpolished force. Fans of Nirvana, Pixies, Built to Spill, Meat Puppets, X, and the emotional clarity of Angel Olsen, Cat Power, and Elliott Smith will hear familiar DNA-but this record is about variety, risk, and letting the songs go where they want to go.