The Exploding Hearts are returning with a bang as they announced an expanded and remastered reissue of their only album, Guitar Romantic. The record, which originally dropped in 2003, will include ...

Back in 2002, Portland, OR’s The Exploding Hearts recorded and released their only album for the small, then Portland-based indie punk label Dirtnap (and in Europe via the Screaming Apple imprint).

Terry Six was the quintessential teenage punk. In the early 2000s, he formed the Exploding Hearts with three of his best friends and cut Guitar Romantic, a record of brash, whip-smart power-pop tunes ...

ON APRIL 1, 2003, Dirtnap Records released the Exploding Hearts’ debut album. An explosive platter of needle-sharp guitars, adenoidal vocals, and sugary pop hooks, Guitar Romantic remains a defining ...

Terry & Louie (Terry Six and King Louie Bankston) perform at Gonerfest 2014. The former Exploding Hearts members will play in Portland as part of Project Pabst 2015. (Mike Kerr) (Mike Kerr) "I was ...

Almost exactly 15½ years after the fatal car accident that claimed the lives of three young Portland musicians headed home from a tour following a string of sold-out shows and rising fame, the ...