THE ABANDOS are a three-piece band from the fine City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. They self-released their new 7″ EP Stiff, showcasing four tracks of noise-crusted punk. Continue reading “The Abandos – Stiff 7″ EP”
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Flesh Wounds – Bitter Boy 7″
FLESH WOUNDS are a pissed off, no-nonsense garage trio from Carrboro, North Carolina, and they just put out Bitter Boy, their first 7-inch, on Merge Records. Continue reading “Flesh Wounds – Bitter Boy 7″”
Watery Love – Decorative Feeding
Philadelphia punks WATERY LOVE blow apart our modern dystopia with sonic blasts and cutting leads that shake your marrow on their epic new LP Decorative Feeding from In The Red Records.
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Friday’s Find: Slushy – Pastime Gardens
Grabbing Clouds Records just released the debut LP from Chicago duo of Chris Kramer and Brent Zmrhal – aka SLUSHY — who create sticky, candy-coated guitar pop with both surf and garage influences. Continue reading “Friday’s Find: Slushy – Pastime Gardens”
Believer/Law – Matters of Life and Death EP
New York isn’t what it once was. Aging punks may vomit war stories of the squalid existences they suffered through in the pre-Giuliani years but they typically do so a part of haute couture fashion shows or in other more self aware but equally brain dead displays of nostalgic masturbation. Continue reading “Believer/Law – Matters of Life and Death EP”
Modern Pets – B.I.Y.S. 7″
Secret Mission Records in Pittsburgh, PA just dropped a new two-song 7″ from MODERN PETS. The band hails from Berlin, Germany and this is their first release of 2014. Continue reading “Modern Pets – B.I.Y.S. 7″”
The Wavelengths – s/t CS EP
THE WAVELENGTHS are a new four-piece based out of Tempe, Arizona. Their self-titled debut EP, out now on Rubber Brothers Records, rolls into shore with eight neurotic psych-pop tracks that blend inventive songcraft with garage raucousness. Continue reading “The Wavelengths – s/t CS EP”
Friday’s Find: Verma – Sunrunner
The ever-reliable Trouble in Mind Records deliver a new LP from Chicago psych-outs VERMA. Sunrunner contains seven epic tracks that fall somewhere between progressive psych and space rock, with a heavy emphasis on improvisation. Continue reading “Friday’s Find: Verma – Sunrunner”
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – Best Of Boiler Room Classics
I can relate to the bespectacled guy staring back at me from the cover of MIKE ADAMS AT HIS HONEST WEIGHT’S new album, Best of Boiler Room Classics. Here’s a guy who I’m guessing is in his mid-thirties and according to the press release is a new father (one who has recently been through some very personal battles for the life of his new son). Continue reading “Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – Best Of Boiler Room Classics”
White Hex – Gold Nights LP
Slug Guts weren’t so much a band as they were a primal force of nature conjured up from the darkest recesses of a chasm in the Earth – guitars whipped and struck with the frightening intensity of sandstorms bearing down on you as drums rolled in from a distance like thunder warning you to run, and those vocals… it was like being torn apart by a cackling pack of starved hyenas. WHITE HEX, then, seems to be a measured response.
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Styrofoam Drone 