Local rock band DuneTX, who you may remember from their Goldenarm album from 2002, recently posted some demos of new songs on their website. This is the first new music I can recall from the band in a while, so it’s good to know that they’re still writing new music.

Check out the band’s new demos here. Funny, while poking around their site, I found they used a review I wrote for Swizzle-Stick back in the day on CDBaby.

Throw some “Gardening at Night”-era R.E.M. and Billy Joel’s “It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me,” mix with some happy Eighties pop, some Weezer, a smidgen of The Beach Boys, and some early Nineties indie rock — specifically Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish and maybe some Fig Dish, Bob Mould, and Blake Babies — and you get a glimpse of what duneTX sounds like. Goldenarm might very well be this summer’s party record — I can’t imagine college kids across the nation not having this on at some point during the day.

Name-dropper…