I sat on the roof, sunbathing in the strong signal that this smartass phone says it has. On the phone was Mike Hall of Sick Sick Birds , a Baltimore pop-punk band with a semi-new album out on Toxic Pop Records . "Our first 7 inch was on that label," Hall says. "And then we came out with this 12 inch last year called Heavy Manners. It's 8 songs and it's definitely [...]
MP3: Dustin Wong - Matthew and Kenneth I think we can all agree that Dustin Wong (likely you know him from Ponytail) knows his way around a guitar. Every effect-laden note found in his work, both solo and otherwise, is deeply imprinted with a profound familiarity for the instrument. Combined with his exceptional pneumatic awareness, Dustin Wong's sound is surely nothing to take lightly. Recently the two of us sat down together, miles apart (or so I presume), and had ourselves an email chat about his solo work. Here [...]
MP3: Pontiak - Suzerain from Sea Voids (2009) MP3: Vincent Black Shadow - Flash Roll from More Deeper (2008) MP3: Leprechaun Catering - Night In Amnesia from Kumquats, Lychees (2004) MP3: Caleb Stine - Two Mantras (Small Sur cover) from Baltimore Does Baltimore (2009) MP3: Benjy Ferree - Dog Killers! from Leaving the Nest (2006) MP3: Sick Sick Birds - Buildings from Heavy [...]
Flickrshow will appear here! Related posts: Audio / Contest: Thrushes, Sick Sick Birds @ the Metro Gallery (2009.11.06) Photos: True Womanhood, Weekends, Bad Liquor Pond @ the Metro Gallery (2009.02.25) Sound Off!: Sick Sick Birds
01. MP3: Sick Sick Birds - Your Machine 02. MP3: Sick Sick Birds - Hearts & Their Minds Sick Sick Birds open for Thrushes tonight at the Metro Gallery . You might have noticed that tweens have a bastardized derivation of a once sacred screed from an Exploited album title: "Pop punk's not dead." Few people outside the New Found Glory, All Time Low set find any merit in that statement; what's moreso, some might argue [...]
Thrushes - Juggernaut early mix . Thrushes have once again dropped some mana on us here at Aural States. Not only are we exclusively previewing an early mix of the track "Juggernaut" from their forthcoming album Night Falls , but we're running a contest for their show with the far-too-rarely-seen Sick Sick Birds , the always rockin' Baby Aspirin and Brooklyn's The Art of Shooting [...]
MP3: Sick Sick Birds - Your Machine from Heavy Manners 123 (2009) On a particularly idyllic and cool fall evening this week, I sat on the steps of Charm City Art Space with founding member Mike Riley ( the Spark , Pulling Teeth , Toxic Pop & Firestarter Records ) to reminisce and reflect on the past, [...]
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Usher- "Climax" (Produced by Diplo)
