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Hailing from Copenhagen, BABY IN VAIN seem to have taken the city by storm with their live performances. Machine Gun Girl is their latest single, followed by another 7″ before the end of the year and a six track EP in early spring. Continue reading “Baby in Vain – Machine Gun Girl 7″”
The Italy-based Goodbye Boozy Records is at it again. This time around they dropped four new 7″ singles, with this first coming from STRAIGHT ARROWS of Sydney, Australia. Continue reading “Straight Arrows – All the Time 7″”
It’s the one and only COP CITY/ CHILL PILLARS from Lake Worth in South Florida. Hosed is their sophomore LP for the Florida’s Dying label, capitalizing on their shaky debut from last year and progressing outward in all the right ways. Continue reading “Cop City/ Chill Pillars – Hosed”
QUAILBONES are a five piece band who come bearing their weird, wobbly pop from Murray, Kentucky. Crane Wilbur is their latest 7″, coming in a short edition of 100 copies from Ghost Orchard Records. Continue reading “Quailbones – Crane Wilbur 7″”
TTOTALS are a duo consisting of Brian Miles and Marty Linville from Nashville, TN. Silver on Black is their newly self-released 10″ EP, giving us all some excellent insight into their own seething brand of psychedelic rock. Continue reading “Ttotals – Silver on Black EP”
Midwestern post-punk crew LEGS just dropped their new self-titled EP in the middle of October. Hailing from Bloomington, IN, their jangly, off-centered pop will keep you guessing. Continue reading “LEGS – s/t EP”
2012 has been a good year for Nashville’s own NATURAL CHILD. Hard in Heaven is their second album of the year and also their second for Burger Records, coming with a bit of a different angle than For the Love of the Game. Continue reading “Natural Child – Hard in Heaven”
RED DONS recently dropped a 7″ for their first release on Dirtnap Records. Auslander features two new songs, both of which were written in 2010-11 in cities like Chicago, Brazil, London and Hamburg. To continue the nomadic behavior, the tracks were recorded in a Cold War era bomb shelter in Sweden by Lars Ekman, leaving Dirtnap to take care of the rest. Continue reading “Red Dons – Auslander 7″”
TY SEGALL truly stopped for nothing this year. Three full-length albums, a handful of 7″ singles (one repressed), two appearances (that’s plural) on live national television, a slew of tour dates across the world and whatever the fuck else you can think of. In the end, there’s nobody else that can say they added that much to their profile this year.
Twins would be his third LP on the year and his second (solo) album for the Drag City label. As far as the record goes, it pretty much ensures that 2012 was the year of Segall. A track like “You’re the Doctor” seems like the essence of everything the man has done up to this point – it’s absolutely catastrophic, supplying us with two minutes of full-on, pedal to the metal intensity. The song is led by the constant pummel of pounding percussion, making way for some vile guitar licks against the increasingly noisy backdrop. Throbbing bass lines and Segall’s bloodthirsty squeals help fortify the wild song, catapulting us headfirst into a raging onslaught of dirty, screeching guitars and enough driving energy to last into next year. Go on, hit that play button right below, you know you want to.
Genre/ Tags: Noise Rock, Garage Rock, Pop
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KING TUFF has had a busy year. Screaming Skull is his second 7″ of 2012, bringing us two new non-album tracks hot off the heels of his glamorous self-titled LP on Sub Pop. Continue reading “King Tuff – Screaming Skull 7″”
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