All the reviews, all the music, all the formats.
Suicide Squeeze Records in Seattle just released this split 7″ from NATURAL CHILD and GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH. Together they deliver three new tracks on this deliciously titled 7″, limited to 750 copies from the label that quickly sold out. Continue reading “Natural Child/ Guantanamo Baywatch – Surf n Turf Split 7″”
After dropping their Phase II cassette earlier this year, Nashville band BLANK RANGE is back with their first vinyl experience. Scrapin’ comes courtesy of the Sturdy Girls Records label, delivering two new tracks of freewheeling folk rock.
Continue reading “Blank Range – Scrapin’ 7″”
Speakertree Records in Charlottesville, VA continues to churn out the goods. Up next they’re delivering the debut long-player from Bay-area wonder-kid ADAM WIDENER. The former Zygoteen/Bare Wire has left his mark over the last year or so with at least two scorching singles, naturally leading us to this newly released debut. Vesuvio Nights clocks-in with 14 blistering tracks loaded with glam and drenched in fuzz, evidenced by the stomping jangle in lead single “Laughter On Your Heels I’ll Follow.” The track is tight with swift percussion and a wonky bass line, all of which is performed by Widener himself. He’s at it again in self-titled track “Vesuvio Nights,” showing off a glittery lead guitar to go with a throbbing bass line. It’s ecstatic and propulsive, crafting a form of melodic, punk-inflected pop with a relentless twang. Listen to the self-titled track below and check the video for “Laughter On Your Heels I’ll Follow!”
Vesuvio Nights –
Genre/ Tags: Garage Rock, Pop, Punk
Vesuvio Nights: Tracklist:
1.) Telephone Traps
2.) Laughter on Your Heels I’ll Follow
3.) Vesuvio Nights
4.) Fake Flowers Never Die
5.) Crystal Caskets
6.) Average People in an Average World
7.) Babe Don’t Feel Blue
8.) Black is the Color
9.) Glow Crush
10.) Pools of Light
11.) Gentle Swarm
12.) Fluid Trails of Glitter Gore
13.) Visceral Venom
14.) Transparency Shows Me the Way
BUY the LP from Speakertree Records
Adam Widener on Facebook
Related Posts:
Make Out 7″ (Fuzz City)
Cola Kids Hanging Out in the Bubble Dome 7″ (Big Action)
Find Mr. Widener in our Top Thirty 7″ Records of 2012
The Bon Voyage label based in Brisbane, Australia doesn’t release new records often, but when they do we need to make sure we’re paying attention. Their latest is this 7″ EP from Brisbane-based rock and roll band CANNON. Continue reading “Cannon – It’s Cool, No Worries 7″ EP”
FDH, Resurrection and Mammoth Cave Records have all joined forces to bring us one of the most absurd punk records of 2013. STRANGE ATTRACTOR is the rock alias of Jeff Houle, an artist based in Sudbury, Ontario, who previously did time in Statues and the Havocs. Back to the Cruel World is his first record to be properly released in the US, and it’s a snarling batch of decrepit speed-punk that’s as angry and disgusted as anything ever committed to tape. Continue reading “Friday’s Find: Strange Attractor – Back to the Cruel World”
After the disbanding of Philadelphia’s friendly basement rockers The Eeries, guitarist Mike Kriebel packed up and headed for Los Angeles. He wrote and recorded these songs as THE TONE before moving, which will soon be a 7″ as well as a cassette tape. Continue reading “The Tone – Demo EP”
DUMB DOCTORS is the moniker of Scott Dence from Charleston, SC. Originally a member of Boring Portals and Sans Jose, he has been recording these singles by himself since the beginning of the summer. I Am You is the most recent, delivering “two heart-exploding shots of pure garage psych power.”
Continue reading “Dumb Doctors – I Am You 7″”
Since we last caught up with SICK THOUGHTS they’ve been hard at work. Need No One is the second 7″ from these Baltimore teen rockers, continuing their violent string of scrappy, blown-out punk rock. Continue reading “Sick Thoughts – Need No One 7″ EP”
BULLY MAMMOTH is a self-described “three piece rock band out of Portland, Maine.” They just self-released their second EP, simply titled EP Two at the tail end of 2013. As for their future, we’ll have to wait and see what comes next.
Continue reading “Bully Mammoth – EP Two”
Aarght Records in Melbourne just released the debut LP from Geelong/Melbourne synth-punk four-piece AUSMUTEANTS. Amusements is twelve tracks of synth-heavy garage pop, honing in on the sound from their earlier 7″ singles on Anti Fade and Heinous Anus.
Continue reading “Ausmuteants – Amusements”
Styrofoam Drone 