Gary Records is a label based in Chicago. They specialize in international split 7″‘s and their latest release is about to be on your radar. SHAPE BREAKER (Philadelphia) and FUCK MOUNTAIN (Dublin) join forces to deliver this monster, coming limited to just 300 pieces. Continue reading “Shape Breaker/ Fuck Mountain – Gary Records Split 7″”
THE ZOLTARS’ second album, Walking Through the Dark (via the Austin-based CQ Records), is the next logical step in the band’s discography: Throughout 11 cuts of light, uplifting and texture-rich music, they bulk up their dreary pop with glistening pianos and cellos. Continue reading “Friday’s Find: The Zoltars – Walking Through the Dark”
Minneapolis-based trio RABBIT HOLES dropped It’s Not Alright at the end of 2013 and we just caught an earful. Big Action Records brings us two tracks of their ecstatic garage pop, coming on black vinyl housed in 3-color hand-screened sleeves. Continue reading “Rabbit Holes – It’s Not Alright 7″”
Formed in July of 2013, PORNO MAGS is a 4-piece band from Chicago, IL. They self-describe their single Get On Top as rock and roll/ proto punk, leaving us with two crunchy tracks of mid-tempo garage. Continue reading “Porno Mags – Get On Top”
Formed in Shanghai in the middle of 2010, THE INSTIGATION is a four piece punk band now based in Tokyo, Japan. Their four members are currently spread out as far as London and together they create demolishing hardcore punk. Continue reading “The Instigation – No Way Out 7″ EP”
An underappreciated album from 2013, nothing captures WHITE FENCE in the live setting as accurately as Live in San Francisco. The album was first in a new series of live recordings from Castle Face Records, aiming to document bands in their finest hour.
Continue reading “Friday’s Find: White Fence – Live in San Francisco”
NERVOUS TALK is a 4-piece punk band from Vancouver featuring Joel Butler of Moby Dicks/Myelin Sheaths and members of Timecopz, the Ballantynes and Shitty Neighbors. Introductions is their new 7″ from the Mammoth Cave Recording Co. Continue reading “Nervous Talk – Introductions 7″”
The always-excellent Tic Tac Totally Records in Chicago brings us the second long-player from party-ready snot-punks PARTY BAT. Together these guys nail that timeless back-from-the-grave garage sound, capitalizing on all the points that made their earlier singles so memorable. These songs are led by a thin, sludgy guitar buzz and lead Bat’s rowdy croon, offering endlessly gruesome lyrical variations about drugs, zombies, eating brains and Budweiser and blood. Continue reading “Friday’s Find: Party Bat – Real Drugs”
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″”
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
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